NGOs highlight human rights violations committed in the name of drug control
18 May 2015
Based on Human Rights Council Resolution A/HRC/28/L.22, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is planning to draft a report on the impact of drugs and drug control on human rights in order to feed into the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs, which will be held in 2016.
In order to feed into the report, a series of NGOs submitted letters highlighting the impact of drug control on human rights. Please click on each link below to read these submissions:
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- IDPC submission focusing on drug control and its impact on mass incarceration, development, access to essential medicines, harm reduction access, compulsory detention of drug users and the use of the death penalty
- PRI/HRI submission focusing on the impact of drug control on the criminal justice system
- WOLA submission focusing on the impact of drug control on women's rights in Latin America
- WHPCA submission focusing on how drug control hampers access to controlled medicines for medical purposes, in particular pain relief
- CIDDH submission on human rights violations committed in drug-producing areas, in particular in Peru
- Release submission on the need to uphold the right of people who use drugs to access the social, health, treatment and harm reduction services they need
- WHRIN submission focusing on the impact of drug control on the rights of women who use drugs
- ICEERS submission on the impacts of the criminalisation of people who use ethnobotanicals
- Canadian NGOs highlight human rights violations committed in the name of drug control in Canada
- Submission by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and the Andrey Rylkov Foundation about Russian drug policies and their impacts on human rights
- Count The Costs higlights the many human rights violations caused by the war on drugs
- HRW highlights the human rights costs of drug control, in particular the over-criminalisation of vulnerable groups
- CMDPDH denounces the human rights violations conducted in the name of Mexico's war on drugs
- CEDD discusses how drug policies and disproportionate penalties have led to prison overcrowding in Latin America
- TNI highlights the urgent need to addres the <span>the tensions between the human rights treaties and the drug conventions</span>
- HRI and the WCDP call for the abolition of the death penalty for drug offences
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- Women and Harm Reduction International Network (WHRIN)
- Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
- Transnational Institute (TNI)
- Penal Reform International
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
- Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (CMPDPH)
- International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC)
- International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care (IAHPC)
- Harm Reduction International (HRI)
- Centro de Investigacion Drogas y Derechos Humanos (CIDDH)
- Dejusticia
- HIV Legal Network
- Canadian Drug Policy Coalition
- Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice
- Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA)