A recent BBC debate challenged the conventional wisdom that the UK public is unequivocally opposed to drug decriminalization and that political support for a more liberal drug policy is untenable.
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Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: drug decriminalization, drug policy, Jonathan Price, UK
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Epidemiologist Jonathan Smith is working on a documentary film about the lives of four mineworkers who were dismissed from their jobs and sent home after contracting tuberculosis in the South African gold mines.
Posted in: Africa, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: Brett Davidson, Health, health media, HIV/AIDS, Jonathan Smith, migrants, mine workers, public health, South Africa, Swaziland, tuberculosis, video advocacy
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Amid emotional, politicized attacks on the European Court of Human Rights, a recent ruling on pretrial detention that covers 250 Russian cases provides an eloquent witness for the defense.
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Medical studies show that performing genital reshaping surgery on intersex children at birth or soon after usually causes psychological damage to patients. Yet this remains the standard of care in most countries, despite protests from patient advocates.
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