This Conference will gather lawyers, judges, diplomats and representatives from intergovernmental organizations working at the international level to identify best practices in terms of abolitionist and reductionist strategies.
This regional congress will focus on the specific stakes of the death penalty in East and South-East Asia and particularly on the use of capital punishment against drug traffickers.
To mark the International “Support Don’t Punish” Day of Action on 26 June, the All-Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG) and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Abolition of the Death Penalty invite you to Human Rights, the Death Penalty and International Drug Control: Avenues for UK action.
UN human rights and drug control bodies now recognize that the death penalty for drugs violates international law, but a number of states parties to the drug control treaties argue that capital drug laws are a permissible sanction.
The 13th World Day Against the Death Penalty is raising awareness around the application of the death penalty for drug-related offences. See how you can get involved!
This paper provides an insight into Malaysian drug policies and the environment in which the national response to drugs has been developing in terms of harm reduction, prisons, drug treatment, law enforcement responses and civil society participation. An analysis of the situation concludes…
Hundreds of drug offenders are executed annually and the number likely tops 1,000 if figures from countries that don't disclose their death penalty data are included, according to this new IHRA report.
In December 2010, the Bombay High Court concluded arguments in a case challenging the constitutional validity of Section 31A of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 that imposes a mandatory death sentence for drug offences upon subsequent conviction.
The Iranian authorities must urgently overturn the death sentence for a shop worker who was tried unfairly on drugs-related charges, Amnesty International said, amid fears his execution is imminent.
The Thai government’s response to drug use continues to be one of ‘zero-tolerance’ despite the necessity for a shift towards a harm reduction approach.
The book includes an account of drug use in the region, the effects of criminalisation, the role of police in supporting health efforts, the patterns of cultivation of crops deemed illicit, etc.
The United Nations should immediately freeze drug policy assistance to Vietnam after the country sentenced 30 people to death for drug-related offenses.
Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, made a speech on the human rights violations which continue to occur in the implementation of States' drug control policies.
Of the 58 countries in the world that still have the death penalty in place, over half have made it applicable to people who have committed, for the most part, non-violent drug crimes.
President Joko Widodo has announced there would be ‘no excuse’ for drug traffickers and his tough stance is the ‘shock therapy’ required to combat an epidemic.
The UN agency charged with combating illicit drug trafficking should withdraw its support for counter-narcotics police operations in Iran until the death penalty for drug offences is abolished.
