The adverse effects of Mexico’s militarization of its domestic law enforcement on the country’s human rights climate are so obvious that we are left wondering why Calderón’s War on Drugs strategies and Mérida assistance have not yet been radically redirected, if both Mexican and US authorities...
EHRN's report assesses the consequences of the sharp reduction in donor support that forced The Global Fund to halt new funding and to impose cost-cutting measures.
The report includes a set of recommendations, most prominent of which is a call to the Global Fund to ensure that it continues to support HIV and harm reduction programmes, so that global commitments to reduce HIV transmission of HIV among people who inject drugs by 50% by 2015 can be met.
Portugal is increasingly suffering from the austerity measures applied to all services provided by the State. Social protection is being reduced across the board, affecting vulnerable populations, including people who use drugs.
Articles in this volume address coerced drug treatment, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the INCB and ayahuasca, and the death penalty for drug in China.
The HCLU is producing seven thematic movies on the seven major costs of the war on drugs. This film features one of them - the promotion of stigma and discrimination.
The Sixth Summit of the Americas is an opportunity for States to show their compromise with human rights and, in particular, the guarantee of women’s rights in the Latin-American region, opening the debate on regulation of legal trade in drugs. The review of the current drug control policy is...
A paradigm shift, combining repression of the violent drug trade with increased investments in treatment and prevention, would be the best contribution that Latin America could make to global reform of drug policies.
Political divides in the Central American region around drug control surfaced sharply at the recent regional summit on “New Routes against Drugs Trafficking”, that took place on Saturday 24 March in Guatemala. Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina called for an open debate on the security...
For years, emergency services staff summoned to the site of an overdose in Georgia have called the police to ascertain whether criminal charges should be laid. The practice has discouraged drug users from seeking medical treatment, and recently moved the Georgian Harm Reduction Network to ask...
This policy paper aims to provide decision makers and policy managers with an overview of the basic principles, instruments and tools that will support them in developing, reviewing and implementing drug policies, strategies and action plans.
A new report produced in Indonesia by the Monitoring Network of Human Rights Violations against People who Use Drugs looks specifically at police mistreatment of drug users. The stigmatization of drug users often means that government officials can act with impunity when it comes to violence,...
This edition of Guidelines for Debate aims to define what gender perspective is and to provide guidance for its incorporation in the
development of public programs and policies.
This note provides an overview of human rights and international law concerns raised by the 2011 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board.
A conclave of Central American presidents meeting in Guatemala to discuss a major overhaul of their drug laws - including legalization or decriminalization - failed to arrive at a consensus Saturday and agreed to meet again soon in Honduras.
The intent of this edition of Guidelines for Debate is to clarify discussion items around the so-called “youth perspective”, identifying what it is and where it comes from, while considering elements and tools used for analysis.
The new EHRN report shows that implementation of criminal laws regulating drug use and drug possession with no intent to supply costs more than double the amount spent on drug treatment, such as opioid substitution treatment in the region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
The last of the series of Correlation Conferences, entitled ‘Getting out of the margins – Changing realities and making the difference’, took place from 12th to 14th December 2011 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. This report is an account of the discussions that took place during the...
