Items tagged with human rights
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| House OKs bill that presumes drug suspects guilty until proven innocent [02.03.2021] | The House of Representatives passed a bill providing for legal presumption on who is considered an importer, financier, or protector of illegal drugs ... |
| ‘War on drugs’ blamed for deaths of at least 122 children in Philippines [30.06.2020] | At least 122 children, including a one-year-old, have been killed during President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs” in the Philippines, according to ... |
| Philippines police may have killed tens of thousands with 'near impunity' in drug war – UN [04.06.2020] | Tens of thousands of people may have been killed in the war on drugs since mid-2016 in the Philippines, amid “near impunity” for police and incitemen ... |
| ‘License to Kill’: Inside Rio’s record year of police killings [18.05.2020] | Officially, the police in Brazil are allowed to use lethal force only to confront an imminent threat. But an analysis of four dozen police killings i ... |
| The war on drugs is a war on human rights [15.05.2020] | One of the most appalling aspects of the war on drugs is that it can legitimise not just human rights abuses, but a complete rejection of human right ... |
| Cambodian official says human rights 'need to be put aside' in drug war [13.05.2020] | A Cambodian official defended an anti-drug campaign that has been decried as rife with abuses, saying human rights “need to be put aside” to fight dr ... |
| The ‘deja vú’ of aerial crop spraying in Colombia [29.02.2020] | At the end of 2019 the government of Iván Duque presented a draft decree to resume the spraying of drug crops used for illicit purposes. It argued th ... |
| Death squad disrupters: Filipina patrols in Pateros help keep drug killings at bay [17.02.2020] | Late each night, a dozen women chat and share a meal before hitting the narrow streets of a Manila suburb where a death squad once roamed. They are t ... |
| 'Shock and awe' has failed in Philippines drug war, enforcement chief says [07.02.2020] | Colonel Romeo Caramat, the head of drug enforcement for the Philippine National Police, said that ultra-violent approach to curbing illicit drugs had ... |
| Rio violence: Police killings reach record high in 2019 [23.01.2020] | The number of police killings in Rio de Janeiro reached a record high last year, officials say, amid controversial hardline measures to tackle violen ... |
| Bloody Philippine drug war fails to curb methamphetamine supply: VP [06.01.2020] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has only managed to curb the supply of methamphetamines by less than 1% of annual consumption, pr ... |
| 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 ... |
| The UN Drug Control Conventions [31.12.2019] | For more than ten years, TNI’s Drugs & Democracy programme has been studying the UN drug control conventions and the institutional architecture of th ... |
| UN Common Position on drug policy [01.12.2019] | In November 2018, the UN System CEB adopted the ‘UN system common position supporting the implementation of the international drug control policy thr ... |
| Regulating Drugs: Resolving Conflicts with the UN Drug Control Treaty System [29.11.2019] | There are good reasons to legally regulate drugs markets, rather than persist with efforts to ban all non-medical uses of psychoactive substances. Re ... |
| Nowhere to hide [30.10.2019] | Traditionally, the UN and governments have measured progress in drug policy in terms of flows and scale; principally the numbers of people arrested, ... |
| Philippines police chief and Duterte drug war enforcer resigns in meth scandal [14.10.2019] | The chief of police in the Philippines has stepped down after facing historical accusations in the Senate that he protected officers who had resold c ... |
| Malaysia's Government looks to decriminalise drug use in bid to stem disadvantage [14.09.2019] | The non-descript white van parked at the mosque entrance went mostly unnoticed. In conservative Malaysia, very few of the Muslim faithful on their wa ... |
| A global revolution in attitudes towards cannabis is under way [29.08.2019] | Uruguay paved the way when it legalised cannabis in 2013. But it is the reform in Canada, a G7 member, that has done most to heighten international t ... |
| Rodrigo Duterte's drug war is 'large-scale murdering enterprise' says Amnesty [08.07.2019] | The president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte is carrying out a “large-scale murdering enterprise” and should be investigated by the UN for crimes ... |
| The real failure of Southeast Asia’s drug wars [18.06.2019] | There may come a day when Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is brought before the International Criminal Court to answer questions about his “war ... |
| Beijing says US legalization of marijuana is a 'threat to China' [17.06.2019] | Beijing's leading drug enforcement body has blamed the legalization of marijuana in Canada and parts of the United States for a spike in the amount o ... |
| ‘They have free rein’: Rio residents fear police violence under far-right rule [17.05.2019] | During campaigning last year, Rio’s new, far-right governor, Wilson Witzel, promised a “slaughter” of gun-toting drug gangsters using helicopters and ... |
| Sri Lanka president uses Easter attacks to fuel Duterte-inspired drug war [01.05.2019] | For Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena, the War on Drugs and the War on Terror go hand-in-hand. And the Easter attacks that rocked the capital ... |
| The campaign for a 'drug-free world' is costing lives [20.03.2019] | Drug control efforts across the world are a threat to human dignity and the right to life. The first problem lies with the founding aspiration of the ... |
| Major UN report condemns punitive drugs policies [15.03.2019] | A new report from the United Nations System Coordination Task Team describes punitive drug policies as “ineffective in reducing drug trafficking or i ... |
| How Duterte’s exaggerations worsened the Philippines’ drug problem [28.02.2019] | We’re nearing the midpoint of the Duterte administration, yet we’re nowhere near solving the Philippines' drug problem. By all accounts, things even ... |
| Drug policy in India: Key developments since the UNGASS 2016 [20.02.2019] | This paper outlines the key drug policy developments in India since the UNGASS Outcome Document was adopted in 2016, which highlights health and huma ... |
| From the Philippines to Indonesia and Afghanistan, Asia’s brutal drug policies have failed [20.02.2019] | The so-called “war on drugs” has persisted without an honest assessment by governments of its effectiveness, nor its impacts, despite UN reports show ... |
| Rodrigo Duterte: Philippines president suggests deadly war on drug dealers will get even ‘bloodier’ [20.02.2019] | Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte warned his signature anti-narcotics campaign will be even harsher in the future, signalling no let-up in a blood ... |
| Egypt approves death penalty for drug dealers [31.01.2019] | Egypt’s cabinet has approved a draft law that would see drug dealers sentenced to death. The law was part of a broader bill to combat the spread of n ... |
| Duterte's Philippines drug war death toll rises above 5,000 [19.12.2018] | Derrick Carreon, a spokesman for the Philippine drug enforcement agency (PDEA), said that, according to official figures, between July 2016 and the e ... |
| Time for a truce in Asia’s war on drugs [03.11.2018] | Global attitudes on narcotic drugs are changing, but the shift has come too late for those caught up in Asia’s past decade of misguided and often let ... |
| Connecting the dots... [26.10.2018] | How can we resolve the tensions between current drug control policies and states’ human rights obligations? The international human rights framework ... |
| Taking stock of a decade of failed drug policies [22.10.2018] | Ten years ago, UN member states set themselves a target ‘to eliminate or reduce significantly and measurably’ the illicit cultivation, production, tr ... |
| Report says the UN's global 'war on drugs' has been a failure [22.10.2018] | The United Nations' drug strategy of the past 10 years has been a failure, according to a major report by the International Drug Policy Consortium (I ... |
| Taking stock: A decade of drug policy [22.10.2018] | ‘Taking stock: A decade of drug policy’ evaluates the impacts of drug policies implemented across the world over the past decade, using data from the ... |
| Racial bias in police stop and search getting worse, report reveals [13.10.2018] | Black Britons are increasingly likely to be stopped and searched by police compared with white people, according to shocking new figures that challen ... |
| IDPC response to the INCB Annual Report for 2017 [08.10.2018] | In the approach to the 2019 Ministerial Segment and its review of international drug control, the INCB’s Annual Report for 2017 is arguably of specia ... |
| Duterte confesses: 'My only sin is the extrajudicial killings' [28.09.2018] | President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted for the first time to authorising extrajudicial killings as part of his war on drugs in the Philippines. Duter ... |
| On the road towards the 2019 Ministerial Segment [25.09.2018] | UN member states have agreed to hold a Ministerial Segment immediately prior to the 62nd Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) ‘to take s ... |
| Veneer of consensus masks deep disagreement on global drug policy [22.09.2018] | On September 24, President Trump will begin his appearance at the UN General Assembly by hosting an event on the “World Drug Problem.” Only delegates ... |
| The people left behind by Philippines' brutal war on drugs [14.08.2018] | One year after visiting the Philippines to document the impact of President Rodrigo Duterte’s crackdown on drugs, photographer James Whitlow Delano r ... |
| Philippine police vow 'surgical and chilling' war on drugs, crime [30.07.2018] | Philippine police vowed to revamp and intensify a fight against crime and drugs, a week after President Rodrigo Duterte promised no letup in a bloody ... |
| Duterte vows more bloodshed in Philippine ‘drug war’ [23.07.2018] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed to continue his murderous “war on drugs,” saying “it will be as relentless and chilling as on the day it b ... |
| In bloody drug war, Mexico's new leader may try negotiating [02.07.2018] | For the past 12 years, Mexico has fought violent drug gangs by deploying thousands of police, soldiers and intelligence officers to crack down on car ... |
| Philippines' Duterte says no 'justice' for families of drugs war casualties [19.06.2018] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said the families of people killed in his controversial war on drugs will not receive “justice”, rejecting calls ... |
| Pledge to arm Philippine community chiefs sparks 'Wild West' fears [13.06.2018] | The Philippines interior ministry plans to acquire pistols for community leaders willing to fight crime, sparking fears of more lawless bloodshed in ... |
| Is Sweden's zero-tolerance approach to drugs a failing model? [17.05.2018] | Sweden is accustomed to being praised for its forward-thinking approach, but there's one area where many feel it lies behind the curve. The country's ... |
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