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... |
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... |
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 62 nd Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) ‘to take ... |
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 ... |
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] | T he 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... |
'I will arrest you': Duterte threatens ICC lawyer over 'war on drugs' [13.04.2018] | Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to arrest an International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor if she conducts activities in his cou... |
“The drug market is thriving” while the Commission on Narcotic Drugs limps along [08.04.2018] | “The drug market is thriving” is one of the key messages in UNODC’s 2017 World Drug Report. This is an important admission from the UN’s lead agency ... |
Philippine court halts govt move to keep drug war kill records secret [03.04.2018] | The Philippine Supreme Court ordered police to hand over full records of thousands of deadly encounters in the country’s war on drugs, thwarting a go... |
Indonesia criminal code overhaul a step backwards for drug policy [30.03.2018] | As more countries move away from drug prohibition, Indonesia is about to step up its efforts to defend it. Proposed revisions to the country's crimin... |
UN Human Rights Council reaffirms role of human rights in international drug policy debate [28.03.2018] | Last Friday evening, 23 March 2018, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council concluded its 3-week long session by voting to adopt a Resolution re... |
Philippines tars rights groups with ‘drug lords’ smear [26.03.2018] | Philippine presidential spokesman Harry Roque alleged that “some human rights groups have become unwitting tools of drug lords to hinder the strides ... |
The war on drugs breeds crafty traffickers [26.03.2018] | Politicians often escalate drug war rhetoric to show voters that they are doing something. But it is rare to ignore generations of lessons as Preside... |
Regulating Cannabis in Accord with International Law: Options to Explore [16.03.2018] | As a growing number of countries move towards legal regulation for non-medical cannabis, governments are pushing the boundaries of the three UN drug ... |
Duterte to withdraw Philippines from ICC after 'outrageous attacks' [14.03.2018] | The Philippines said it is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC) due to what President Rodrigo Duterte called “outrageous” attacks ... |
BNN to continue gunning down drug dealers: Chief [05.03.2018] | Newly-installed head of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), Insp. Gen. Heru Winarko, said he would continue the programs of his predecessor, Budi Wa... |
Rodrigo Duterte tells police not to cooperate in drug war investigation [02.03.2018] | President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the Philippines’ police and soldiers not to cooperate in any investigation into his bloody war on drugs, amid i... |
Duterte to Int'l Criminal Court: Drug war continues, case or no case [12.02.2018] | Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte sought to appear unfazed by the International Criminal Court’s preliminary examination into his drug war, saying... |
Philippines says Hague Tribunal will investigate Duterte over drug war [08.02.2018] | The International Criminal Court is opening a preliminary investigation into accusations that President Rodrigo Duterte and other Philippine official... |
Philippine police return to war on drugs, cannot promise no bloodshed [29.01.2018] | Police in the Philippines resumed President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, making visits to the homes of users and dealers to convince them to surre... |
The War on Drugs in Southeast Asia [29.01.2018] | While the world’s attention has been focused on the carnage of the Philippine Drug War, which has resulted in an estimated 13,000 deaths from anti-na... |
Iran's easing of drug laws could halt execution of 5,000 prisoners [10.01.2018] | The lives of more than 5,000 prisoners on death row in Iran could be spared as a change in the law abolishes capital punishment for some drug-traffic... |
The end of cannabis tolerance in Spain [02.01.2018] | After decades of relative tolerance towards Cannabis in Spain, the Constitutional Court decides that cannabis clubs are criminal. Years of government... |
Duterte's drug war in 2017: The year of deaths and denials [19.12.2017] | It's been a news cycle of deaths and denials in 2017 in the Philippines. Practically every day TV footages, online posts, and newspaper photos showed... |
How a secretive police squad racked up kills in Duterte's drug war [19.12.2017] | Soon after President Rodrigo Duterte launched his war on drugs, a small group of police officers from his hometown Davao arrived in the Philippine ca... |
Police have killed dozens of children in Philippines war on drugs, Amnesty says [04.12.2017] | Police have killed dozens of children in the “war on drugs” in the Philippines in the last 18 months, Amnesty International said. The rights group ur... |
Asia’s violent anti-drug crackdowns are hurting people, not the drug trade [09.11.2017] | With regional and international heads of state gathering in Manila for the 31st Asean Summit, it seems appropriate to examine whether there are more ... |
Killings won't solve drug problem, ex-Thai PM Abhisit says [21.10.2017] | Recounting the experience of Thailand, former Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said killing addicts can never solve the drug problem, as long as... |
Indonesia endorses killing drug suspects to cut costs [16.10.2017] | Indonesia’s National Narcotics Agency (BNN) head has an innovative approach to reducing incarceration costs: killing drug suspects so that they never... |
Philippine lawyers ask Supreme Court to halt 'illegal' war on drugs [11.10.2017] | Philippine lawyers filed an injunction with the Supreme Court to try to stop President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs, calling it as an illega... |
Is the Philippines violent drug war spreading to Indonesia? [06.10.2017] | The Philippine war on drugs, led by President Rodrigo Duterte, has been eviscerated by human rights advocates due to its reliance on extrajudicial ki... |
'Philippines risks ICC intervention if it snubs human rights recommendations' [02.10.2017] | The Philippines risks international erosion of trust in its institutions and the intervention of the International Criminal Court if it doesn't act o... |
Edging forward [30.09.2017] | Diplomatic processes at the United Nations are notoriously slow and difficult, perhaps increasingly so in a modern world of multi-polar geopolitics a... |
Philippines tells UN rights body: No extrajudicial killings [23.09.2017] | The Philippine government has denied the existence of extrajudicial killings in the country before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), r... |
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