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.
Posts Tagged “drug policy”
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Posted in: Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Equality
Topics: Brazil, drug policy, harm reduction, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
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Drug policy is a first-order issue in Colombia. Economist and drug policy expert Daniel Mejia discusses how the issue figures in the upcoming presidential election there.
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, Justice, Latin America & the Caribbean, United States
Topics: Alexandra Kirby, Colombia, drug policy, war on drugs
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Whether it's Afghanistan or Colombia, drug-producing countries face similar challenges: severe control policies push communities deeper into poverty, worsen conflicts, cause rights violations, uproot people, and damage the environment. Experts are calling for a fresh approach that involves the...
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The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union has produced more than 200 short advocacy videos, which are helping to create real change on drug policy issues.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Media & Arts
Topics: Brett Davidson, drug policy, HCLU, Hungary, video
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U.S. funds are being used to support compulsory "rehabilitation" centers in Cambodia, China, and Vietnam where people who use drugs are routinely beaten, raped, and otherwise abused.
Posted in: Asia, Health, Rights & Equality, United States
Topics: Cambodia, China, Daniel Wolfe, drug policy, drug treatment, HIV/AIDS, torture, Vietnam
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This week, governments and a number of policy organizations came together at the 53rd Commission on Narcotic Drugs. Several OSI grantees attended with the aim of increasing civil society input in the process.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Equality
Topics: drug policy, drug treatment, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, opioids, UNODC
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Throughout Southeast Asia, men and women who are caught using drugs are locked away in so-called rehabilitation centers where they are routinely tortured.
Posted in: Asia, Health, Rights & Equality
Topics: Cambodia, China, Daniel Wolfe, drug policy, human rights, torture