Commissioners Arbour and ElBaradei in The Guardian: “The campaign for a ‘drug-free world’ is costing lives”
Read original article in The Guardian Drug control efforts across the world are a threat to human dignity and the right to life. In 2017, more than 70,000 people died from a drug overdose in the US. Among the reasons for these deaths are the lack of access to health and harm-reduction services,
Khalid Tinasti dans Le Temps: “Pour en finir avec la guerre contre la drogues”
Read original article in Le temps OPINION. La prévention contre le trafic et la consommation de drogue dans le monde doit être revue en faisant mieux collaborer Vienne et Genève, écrit Khalid Tinasti, secrétaire général de la Commission globale de politique en matière de drogues Le système international de contrôle des
Commissioner Ramos-Horta: “Put Human Rights in Global Drug Policy”
Read original post in the Harvard Health and Human Rights Journal. Around the world, people have experienced one of the most widespread and shameful human rights failures of our time—the global war on drugs. Barely a day passes without some tragedy or abuse fuelled by misguided drug policies hitting the
Ungass On The World Drug Problem: People, Public Health And Human Rights At The Centre
On 21 October 2015, Switzerland and Colombia co-chaired an event in Geneva entitled UNGASS on the World Drug Problem: People, Public Health, and Human Rights at the Centre—a High-Level Multi-Stakeholder Perspective, which brought together: Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Marie-Paule Kieny, Assistant Director-General, World
