In January 2017, the Russian Ministry of Finance rejected a $1.2bn request from the Ministry of Health required to implement the National AIDS Strategy, bringing into question whether Russia intends to manage its domestic HIV crisis.
Health Minister Jane Philpott declined to support widespread decriminalisation, suggesting considerably more data would be required to further the policy.
Indonesia’s human rights groups are bringing the country’s controversial capital punishment into the global spotlight after demands to abolish it back home had fallen on deaf ears.
Trade with Europe would be affected if the Philippines continued to ignore warnings on human rights violations, the European Union’s envoy to Manila, Franz Jessen, has warned.
Chinese officials have called for an intensification of counter-narcotic efforts, after months of strengthening the country’s international drug control ties with neighbouring nations.
