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The resolution passed by the Human Rights Council on the situation in the Philippines does not fully acknowledge the extent of human rights violations in the Philippines.

The IDPC Principles for the Legal Regulation of Cannabis make clear that the legal regulation of cannabis must include a series of comprehensive interventions to ensure compliance with human rights and social justice goals.

Following the release of the UN World Drug Report, IDPC notes with concern that the UNODC is still unable to acknowledge the failure of decades of drug policies based on prohibition and punishment, and how these approaches fuel systemic human rights abuses such as racism, police violence and…

As a result of stigma and criminalisation people who use drugs face extraordinary barriers to accessing health care, and experience or endure higher rates of poverty, unemployment and homelessness as well as underlying health conditions.

HRI, IDPC and INPUD condemn plans to execute two people for drug offences in Bahrein.