The UN human rights system should continue shedding light on the destructive impact of punitive drug laws on the enjoyment of rights, including through incarceration and administrative detention.
The vast majority of police-related deaths concern far-reaching police powers, including in relation to minor drug offences, mental health crises and 'war on drugs' special operations.
When grounded in a health and human rights approach, decriminalisation provides an enabling legal framework that promotes, protects and fulfils the right to health of people who use drugs.
The ‘war on drugs’ was constructed as a solution to concerns related to public health, violence and organised crime; all of which have been worsened by this approach.
A call to attention to the plight of millions of people living with viral hepatitis and their need for improved health care and government response to this crisis.
Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda underscores there is a reasonable basis to believe crimes against humanity have been committed in the country's 'war on drugs'.
