On International Women’s Day 2019, dozens of organisations joined forces to call out the disproportionate impact of the war on drugs on women and gender non-conforming people.
375 civil society groups, including prominent human rights NGOs, from across the globe have called on UN drug control authorities to urge an immediate stop to the extrajudicial killings of suspected drug offenders in the Philippines.
The report denounces the USA’s failure to address the growing body of counterproductive and regressive state laws, policies, and practices that substantially undermine women’s dignity and status as persons under the law.