PRI issues joint statement on the impact of the ‘war on drugs’ on human rights

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PRI issues joint statement on the impact of the ‘war on drugs’ on human rights

10 October 2017

This week Penal Reform International and the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) made a joint statement on drugs and human rights at the 36th Session of the Human Rights Council.

The statement highlighted how a range of well-documented human-rights violations – such as increased police violence and mass incarceration of people involved in non-violent, low-level drug crimes – have occurred as a result of the so-called ‘war on drugs’ and drug-related policies. PRI and CELS acknowledged the work of the Human Rights Council and Special Procedures in establishing and documenting the impacts of harsh drug policies on human rights, but stressed that further work is needed to address this issue, and a human rights perspective is needed in the design and implementation of drug policies around the world.

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