While many countries use UN World Drug Day as an occasion to persecute--and even execute--drug users, some organizations took the opportunity to emphasize the need for honest debate about drugs and for policies which seek to treat, not punish.
Posts Tagged “Brazil”
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Posted in: Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Equality
Topics: Alexandra Kirby, Brazil, China, death penalty, drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, Iran, Vietnam
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Approximately 90 percent of homeless people (including children and adolescents) in Rio de Janeiro are addicted to crack. The government and NGOs recently met to develop strategies to lessen the social and health damage caused by the drug.
Posted in: Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Equality
Topics: Brazil, drug policy, harm reduction, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
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In March, two OSI grantees, Conectas Human Rights and Justiça Global, organized an event on human rights violations in Brazil’s prison system during the regular session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Posted in: Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Equality
Topics: Brazil, Conectas Human Rights, Espírito Santo, Global Criminal Justice Fund, Justiça Global, Latin America Program, Mary Miller-Flowers, Minister Nilson Naves, Oscar Vilhena Vieira, pretrial detention, UN Human Rights Council, Victoria Wigodzky
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More than one million children around the world are locked up in prison cells, many of them vulnerable to ill treatment. The vast majority are accused of petty offenses or "uncontrollable behavior," according to the UN Rapporteur on Torture.
Posted in: Education & Youth, Justice, Latin America & the Caribbean
Topics: Brazil, children, Denise Tomasini-Joshi, Manfred Nowak, pretrial detention, torture
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In Brazil—which will soon host the UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice—nearly 50 percent of people in prison have actually not yet been tried, and research suggests that one in every five of those is detained illegally.
Posted in: Justice, Latin America & the Caribbean
Topics: Brazil, criminal justice reform, Kersty McCourt, pretrial detention