The purpose of this briefing is to highlight the dangers associated with funding drug control activities in countries with capital drug laws as detailed in IHRA’s report 'Complicity or abolition?', and to provide recommendations to donor-countries.
The report focuses on human rights violations that occurred in Ciudad Juarez in the context of Joint Operation Chihuahua, which began in March 2008. The five cases described involve acts of torture, forced disappearance and sexual harassment of women by Mexican soldiers.
Despite continuing progress in expanding access to HIV testing, prevention, treatment and care in low and middle income countries, global targets are unlikely to be achieved in 2010. This will have important implications for a range of Millennium Development Goals.
The International Centre for Science in Drug Policy has released new research that demonstrates the clear failure of U.S. marijuana prohibition and supports calls for evidence-based models to legalise and regulate the use of cannabis.
This article highlights that international drug crime and the policies intended to tackle it are both threats to progress on health, human rights, and the Millennium Development Goals.
Release, the UK centre of expertise on drugs and drugs law, has responded to the new UK Coalition Government’s public consultation on the Drug Strategy 2010, which focuses heavily on ‘drug free’ outcomes and fails to highlight the importance of harm reduction within the drug treatment field. This response highlights those concerns and encourages the UK Government to consider alternatives to the current system including decriminalisation and regulation.
This paper examines how marijuana legalisation in California might influence drug trafficking organisations' revenues and violence in Mexico, focusing on gross revenues from export and distribution to wholesale markets near the southwestern U.S. border.
According to the findings of this UNODC report, the total opium poppy cultivation estimated for Afghanistan in 2010 did not change from 2009 and remained at 123,000 hectares. Ninety eight per cent of the total cultivation took place in nine provinces in the Southern and Western regions, including the most insecure provinces in the country. This further substantiates the link between insecurity and opium cultivation observed since 2007.
Проведение ОВ ключевых элементов, как минимум, позволит налогоплательщиков понять, насколько эффективно тратятся их деньги (впервые в истории); как максимум – даст возможность для развития наркополитики в сторону научно обоснованного подхода, способствующего общественному развитию, защите безопасности и соблюдению прав человека и способного отразить вызовы, которые ставит перед нами XXI столетие.
This A3 poster contains a summary of the key findings from the 2010 Global State of Harm Reduction report, including data on the adoption and coverage of key harm reduction interventions and the extent to which harm reduction is funded around the world.
Drug laws vary widely from country to country. Some nations embrace various elements of a harm reduction approach, in which drug policies are set and evaluated with the goal of reducing the harm of drugs and drug policies. A few nations (most notably Portugal) are even exploring a post-prohibition model by decriminalizing drugs.
This article presents the challenges of responding to the illicit drug market in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, highlighting the characteristics and dynamics of the markets, the impacts of the current drug policy approach on the scale of the market, and its implications for the human rights and security of affected populations, in particular the favela residents.
