Commentaires sur le projet de Recommandation générale n° 37 sur la discrimination raciale dans la jouissance du droit à la santé - Contribution de l'IDPC au Comité CERD

IDPC, Amnesty International, CDPE, HRI, DPA, Release et CELS fournissent des preuves du rôle des politiques en matière de drogue en tant que moteur de la discrimination policière et de l'incarcération. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

This submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination provides comments on the first draft of General Recommendation N. 37 on racial discrimination in the enjoyment of the right to health.

It provides evidence of the role of drug laws and policies as a driver of discriminatory policing and incarceration, and how this leads to the violation of the right to be free from racial discrimination in the enjoyment of the right to health. We urge the Committee to recognise explicitly in the General Recommendation that contact with the criminal legal system is a social determinant of health, and that States have the obligation to reform criminal laws, policies, and practices with racially discriminatory outcomes - including drug-related laws, policies, and practices.