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High-level political forum 2019

9 - 18 Julho 2019

Under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council the event will explore 6 of the sustainable development goals and the overarching theme of people empowerment and inclusiveness.

Events 17 Abril 2019English

EUSPR Conference

16 Setembro - 18 Abril 2019

Ghent, Belgium

The conference held by the European Society for Prevention Research (ESPR) seeks to explore how the role of scientific and evidence based research can combat society's ills.

Events 17 Abril 2019English

Why Ukrainian key communities unite in one platform

At the heart of success in the Ukrainian experience, is an advocacy for groups to come together and provide a voice to those excluded societal groups.

News Alerts 17 Abril 2019English

China’s strong-arm approach to drug addiction does not work

Just last year on the 26th June (International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking), 2 drug dealers were executed in front of over 300 people including schoolchildren who were made to go as a form of deterrent.

News Alerts 15 Abril 2019English

7th World congress against the death penalty

The World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, an alliance of more than 150 NGOs, bar associations, local authorities and unions. Its ultimate objective is to obtain the universal abolition of the death penalty. They are striving to achieve these aims in the following ways: by supporting its…

News Alerts 15 Abril 2019English

The Colour of Drug Use in Central Eastern Europe

Beside lack of access and availability, the drug treatment system in Hungary was designed and established in the 80s and 90s, mostly for white, urban, middle class, male, heterosexual, cannabis and heroin users, Without the active and meaningful involvement of the local minority communities we…

News Alerts 15 Abril 2019English

ICC asked to formally investigate mass killings of social leaders in Colombia

80% of murdered leaders were involved in the struggles for land, territory, or natural resources. 18% were in relation to illegal crops. Social leaders have been assassinated across Colombia, but are particularly vulnerable in areas which have high levels of land inequality, little or no state…

News Alerts 15 Abril 2019English

Joint statement on the death penalty

The EU has called upon Sri Lanka and the Maldives to abandon their position on the death penalty for drug convictions. As of 2015 there were over 1,000 individuals on death row and in February of this year, President Maithripala Sirisena told the Sri Lankan government that the death penalty for…

News Alerts 15 Abril 2019English

New cannabis-amnesty bill could pardon 10,000 people, Ottawa says

With upwards of 250,000 individual convictions for those in possession of less than 30 grams of cannabis in Ottawa and only around 10,000 expected pardon requests, Murray Rankin, the NDP’s deputy justice critic suggests a better move would be to expunge all convictions - as they did for those…

News Alerts 15 Abril 2019English

Drug courts pose dangers of punitive approaches encroaching on medical and health care matters, UN Experts say

Drug courts claim to be a more "humane" approach to traditional criminal justice processes, but they actually represent threats to human rights standards.