While the insurgency steals the headlines, a separate and growing problem remains "under the radar" in Thailand's South; the number of injecting drug users (IDU) is on the rise and their rights and quality of life are being eroded.
For Washington and the UN drug control bureaucracy, the extent to which the ongoing drug-control reforms across the Americas are pushing the boundaries of the global legal framework laid down in three UN drug-control conventions has become a delicate issue.
The OAS and the Government of the Republic of Guatemala launch the initiative "The Voice of the Youth of the Americas", a creative and complementary exchange that will allow the youth to compete with concrete proposals to find new approaches to the global drug problem.
Once the Constituent Assembly approved the pardon, 2,300 people were released, according to the Ecuadoran Public Defender’s Office. As of March 2010, the recidivism rate was under 1%.
The Resolution of the 44th OEA General Assembly promoted by Uruguay, co-sponsored by Argentina, and supported by Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala, is about drugs and human rights.
