Items tagged with compulsary detention
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| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Plan to send Russian drug addicts to labor camps slammed by experts [14.04.2015] | Russia's Federal Drug Control Service's proposal to revive Soviet-era work camps in order to treat drug addicts was met with skepticism by leading he ... |
| Crack cocaine users: New data from Brazil [15.10.2013] | Last September, the Brazilian Ministries of Health and Justice presented data of two key surveys – “Estimated number of crack and similar drug users ... |
| Human rights and drug control: an irreconcilable contradiction? [15.10.2013] | This week both the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna and the UN General Assembly 3rd Committee in New York discuss new drug control res ... |
| Cracolândia: the crack capital of Brazil where addicts are forced to seek help [08.05.2013] | With Brazil gripped by a crack epidemic, the authorities have launched a series of controversial initiatives. Since the start of last year, São Paulo ... |
| Drugs in Brazil: Cracking up [05.04.2013] | São Paulo’s Cracolândia was Brazil’s first and is still its biggest. It is home to 2,000 addicts. But most Brazilian cities now have similar district ... |
| UN concerned by arbitrary arrests in Brazil [27.03.2013] | The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention voiced concern about the rising number of arbitrary arrests in Brazil, which has one of the h ... |
| Is the INCB dangerous to your health? [04.03.2013] | In what has become a chilling annual exercise, the UN's drug watchdog the International Narcotics Control Board released its annual report today. The ... |
| Forced treatment for Brazil crack addicts [25.02.2013] | The city of Rio de Janeiro has begun a program of involuntary hospitalization for crack users, one month after Brazil’s biggest city São Paulo began ... |
| Brazil debates treatment options in crack epidemic [30.12.2012] | With a boom in crack use over the past decade, Brazilian authorities are struggling to stop the drug's spread, sparking a debate over the legality an ... |
| Ex-president slams Brazil's tough anti-drug bill [25.12.2012] | A bill calling for tougher sentences for drug possession and mandatory internment of addicts in Brazil has drawn fire from ex-president Fernando Henr ... |
| Amidst deep concern for Thailand's drug policies, some space for open debate [27.09.2012] | On 17th September, 2012, IDPC together with the Transnational Institute (TNI) held a high-level seminar in Bangkok co-hosted with the Thai Ministry o ... |
| Partners in Crime [20.06.2012] | Millions of dollars in international aid for drug enforcement is spent in countries with extremely poor human rights records and with little or no ac ... |
| Commanding general confidence? [11.03.2012] | This note provides an overview of human rights and international law concerns raised by the 2011 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control ... |
| Human Rights and Drug Policy [30.11.2010] | In many countries around the world, drug control efforts result in serious human rights abuses: torture and ill treatment by police, mass incarcerati ... |
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