Items tagged with human rights
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| Human Rights and drug policy [01.01.2020] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) has always believed in the need to find global answers to global problems, been a strong defender of multilateralis... |
| International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy [01.01.2020] | Established in 2009, the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy is dedicated to developing and promoting innovative and high quality le... |
| PH jail congestion rate soars to over 500% amid drug war [16.06.2017] | The Philippines' cramped jails had to accommodate more inmates in 2016 amid the government's crackdown on drugs as well as other issues, resulting in... |
| Filipinos flee Duterte’s violent drug crackdown [04.06.2017] | Every morning before dawn, Rosario Perez checks to make sure her sons are still alive. The three brothers, all in their 20s, sleep at the houses of f... |
| We have waged war on drugs for a century. So who won? [29.05.2017] | W hile Rodrigo Duterte was campaigning to be elected president of the Philippines last year, he said on many occasions that he would arrange, if elec... |
| WHO and UNDP change in leadership: What views on drug policy and harm reduction? [04.05.2017] | The UN General Assembly Special Session on drugs held in April 2016 has been organized by the international drug control entities, but has confirmed ... |
| ASEAN facing ‘massive’ drug menace, says Duterte [30.04.2017] | President Rodrigo Duterte warned Southeast Asian leaders on Saturday they were facing a “massive” illegal drug menace that could destroy their societ... |
| Charge Rodrigo Duterte with mass murder, lawyer tells The Hague [24.04.2017] | Filipino lawyer Jude Josue Sabio asked the International Criminal Court in The Hague to charge President Rodrigo Duterte and 11 other Philippine offi... |
| Police describe kill rewards, staged crime scenes in Duterte's drug war [18.04.2017] | The Philippine police have received cash payments for executing drug suspects, planted evidence at crime scenes and carried out most of the killings ... |
| Drug reform push stalls [10.04.2017] | While there has been some progress in modernising drug laws, there is almost no good news in Thailand or the region. Despite Gen Paiboon's pioneering... |
| Thousands dead: the Philippine president, the death squad allegations and a brutal drugs war [02.04.2017] | “Throw them in the ocean or the quarry. Make it clean. Make sure there are no traces of the bodies.” The words are shocking. That they allegedly came... |
| The Case for International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Control [08.03.2017] | The international drug control treaties contribute directly to an environment of human rights risk and violations. The drug treaties are what are kno... |
| Philippines police plant evidence to justify killings in drug war, says report [02.03.2017] | Human Rights Watch has accused Philippines police of falsifying evidence to justify unlawful killings in the government’s war on drugs that has cause... |
| The Philippine paradox [22.02.2017] | In the constant, daily laboured birth of the global cannabis industry, there is no greater paradox than the Philippines. On one hand, you have incred... |
| Ex-Officer in Philippines says he led death squad at Duterte’s behest [20.02.2017] | A retired police officer racked with guilt over the murders of two of his own brothers has reversed himself and confessed to leading the Philippine d... |
| A rare survivor of a Philippine drug raid takes the police to court [10.02.2017] | As the only known survivor of a so-called buy-bust operation, Mr. Morillo has provided a chilling first-person account that challenges the government... |
| In Duterte’s footsteps, Hun Sen launches a drug war [09.02.2017] | Cambodia’s newly launched war on drugs is in full swing, with nearly 3,000 people arrested in the campaign’s first month of crime-busting. Authoritie... |
| Families of slain Filipinos file Supreme Court challenge to Rodrigo Duterte’s drugs war [26.01.2017] | Families of alleged drugs suspects killed by Philippine police petitioned the Supreme Court on Thursday to force police to disclose evidence linking ... |
| How one innocent man fell in Rodrigo Duterte's drug war in the Philippines [25.01.2017] | The police confirmed this week that the number of Filipinos killed in the crackdown that began when Mr Duterte took office on June 30 has now surpass... |
| Asia is still just saying no to drugs [14.01.2017] | Harsh penalties for drug offences are common across Asia. The sorts of alternatives now favoured in the West, such as diverting addicts to effective ... |
| 'They are slaughtering us like animals' [06.12.2016] | I had come to document the bloody and chaotic campaign against drugs that President Rodrigo Duterte began when he took office on June 30: since then... |
| Duterte threatens to kill rights activists if drug problem worsens [29.11.2016] | President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has threatened to kill human rights activists critical of his take-no-prisoner tactic against illegal dr... |
| Police arrest more people for marijuana use than for all violent crimes — combined [12.10.2016] | On any given day in the United States, at least 137,000 people sit behind bars on simple drug-possession charges, according to a report released by t... |
| Duterte’s war on drugs: bitter lessons from Thailand’s failed campaign [28.09.2016] | The body count from Philippine President Duterte’s “war on drugs” is growing by the day; more than 3,000 casualties leading to broad international co... |
| Duterte’s fiercest critic booted from committee investigating killings [19.09.2016] | Accused of bias after she allowed a self-confessed hitman to link Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to over a thousand murders, Senator Leila De L... |
| Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to extend drug war as 'cannot kill them all' [18.09.2016] | Rodrigo Duterte has asked for a six-month extension for his war on drugs, saying there are too many people involved in the narcotics trade and he "ca... |
| How three drug users took on the might of the Russian state [13.09.2016] | The Russian government has a notoriously punitive attitude towards drugs. Substitution treatments are banned and the only option for recovering addic... |
| Legal minds demand new drugs policy respectful of human rights [29.08.2016] | Introducing a declaration endorsed by 250 magistrates and 300 legal experts, an Argentine civil society organization dealing with criminal law (Asoci... |
| Duterte ready to answer UN queries on drug killings [22.08.2016] | President Duterte dared United Nations (UN) experts to come to the Philippines and face him in a public meeting where he would answer all their quest... |
| Duterte may face international court for drug deaths, senator says [15.08.2016] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte could face charges for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the spate of killi... |
| Indonesia’s push to execute drug convicts underlines flaws in justice system [12.08.2016] | More than a year after Indonesia drew international censure by putting to death 12 foreigners convicted of drug crimes, the country has resumed a war... |
| Thailand’s novel approach to drugs could offer lesson to neighbors [07.08.2016] | Forward thinking is not what one has come to expect from the conservative military regime running Thailand for the past two years. But a government w... |
| Rodrigo Duterte links 150 judges and politicians to drugs trade [06.08.2016] | The Philippine president has publicly linked more than 150 judges, mayors, lawmakers and military personnel to illegal drugs, revoked their gun licen... |
| Too near our doorsteps: guns and the war on drugs [02.08.2016] | The spate of killings in the Phillipines has clearly drawn the divide – on the surface, between the rich and poor, but at the core, between those who... |
| The dark side of Duterte's deadly but popular drugs war [01.08.2016] | When the image of Jennelyn Olaires weeping as she cradled the body of her slain husband went viral in the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte call... |
| Indonesia: families told that 14 death row prisoners will be executed [28.07.2016] | Fourteen prisoners on death row, including inmates from Nigeria, Pakistan, India and South Africa, and four Indonesians, have been moved to isolation... |
| Philippines president promises 'no let up' in brutal anti-drugs crackdown [24.07.2016] | The Philippines leader known as “The Punisher” has defended his government’s brutal crackdown on the drugs trade in his inaugural State of the Nation... |
| UNGASS 2016: A Broken or B-r-o-a-d Consensus? [05.07.2016] | A special session of the General Assembly took place in April revealing a growing divergence in the global drug policy landscape. Difficult negotiati... |
| Body count rises as new Philippines president calls for drug addicts to be killed [04.07.2016] | Newly-installed Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has reiterated his tough stance on crime by urging the public to not only kill drug dealers, bu... |
| Iran under pressure to abolish death penalty for drug trafficking [27.06.2016] | Iran is under pressure to end its use of death penalty against drug traffickers after facing a serious shortfall in the international funding of the ... |
| Human rights study no reason to change cannabis regulation policy [15.06.2016] | A recent study by Radboud University Nijmegen that concluded that regulating cannabis cultivation could improve human rights is no reason for the Net... |
| Dutch cities renew call for regulated cannabis cultivation [09.06.2016] | Almost 90 percent of Dutch municipalities supported a call on the government to allow experiments with regulated cannabis cultivation at the associat... |
| The human-rights case for drug legalization [06.06.2016] | The first shot in Mexico’s drug war was fired in December 2006, when Mexican President Felipe Calderon sent 6,500 security forces to reclaim Michoaca... |
| Philippine president-elect promises 'a medal' to anyone who shoots a drug dealer [06.06.2016] | Rodrigo Duterte, the new and controversial leader of the Philippines, has called for vigilante justice to deal with the country’s rampant drug trade.... |
| Legal cannabis cultivation would cut violent crime: report [30.05.2016] | Legalizing cannabis cultivation and trade could reduce violent crime related to illegal cultivation and could therefore protect human rights, accordi... |
| The human rights 'win' at the UNGASS on drugs that no one is talking about, and how we can use it [09.05.2016] | The April 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the world drug problem offered a unique opportunity to re-examine the approach of puni... |
| TNI at UNGASS 2016: reports from New York [20.04.2016] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) attended the 30th session of the UN General Assembly Special Session on the world drug problem in New York from the... |
| Remarks Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights [19.04.2016] | "When drugs are decriminalised and health care, including harm reduction, is available, which is the case in a number of Member States, drug dependen... |
| UN backs prohibitionist drug policies despite call for more 'humane solution' [19.04.2016] | The 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) has approved an agreement that leaves in place the prohibitionist policies banning narcotics us... |
| Medical experts call for global drug decriminalisation [24.03.2016] | An international commission of medical experts is calling for global drug decriminalisation, arguing that current policies lead to violence, deaths a... |
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