This report summarises the insights gained from a literature review, a review of available data and information collected in a survey of individual national experts on GPS key indicators within the Reitox network. The survey aimed to explore specialist stances on the issue of varying survey contexts and also to find a possible internationally valid scientific agreement that would temporarily replace a costly scientific exploration.
This paper highlights the concerns raised by the lack of transparency in the INCB’s work, in particular regarding the current practice of the Board’s country correspondence with member states.
The report is the clearest statement to date from within the UN system about the harms that drug policies have caused and the need for a fundamental shift in drug policy.
This report describes the programme ‘City Partnerships on the Improvement of Drug Treatment’, through which the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) has supported courts throughout Latin America and the Caribbean to set up treatment alternatives to incarceration for drug-dependent offenders.
Drawn disproportionately from the poorly educated and the marginally employed, the millions of people in American jails and prisons faced poor mobility prospects before they entered the prison walls. With so many people and families affected, and with such concentration of the impacts among young, poorly educated men from disadvantaged neighborhoods, discussions of mobility in America must include reference to crime policy and the criminal justice system.
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.
