US/UK: Is Drug Policy A Human Rights Abuser?
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oD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 19, 2010
Charles Shaw, 19 July 2010
A weekly summary of what's going on in drug policy and criminal justice reform in the US & UK.
See the Report here:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/charles-shaw/od-drug-policy-forum-front-line-report-week-of-july-19-2010
About the author:
Charles Shaw is a writer and activist living in the Bay Area of San Francisco. He is the author of Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics and Spirituality and serves as editor for the Dictionary of Ethical Politics and the oD Drug Policy Forum.
Is Drug Policy A Human Rights Abuser?
Narcophobia: drugs prohibition and the generation of human rights abuses, authored by Dick Hobbs from the UK's London School of Economics
(LSE) and Brazilian journalist Fernanda Mena, further states that drug "prohibition enforcement has hindered the advancement of democracy and led to violence and increases in human rights abuses". The report attempts to demonstrate that there are global implications for drug laws as this huge global industry has devastating effects on poor producer nations, such as Burma.
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