Diogenis considera que el documento final de la UNGASS constituye una señal de progreso en el debate sobre el cambio de muchos aspectos problemáticos de la política actual.
El Observatorio Europeo de las Drogas y las Toxicomanías (OEDT) confirma el futuro prometedor de la epidemiología basada en las aguas residuales como un enfoque complementario para definir un panorama más preciso y equilibrado del uso de sustancias en diferentes comunidades.
El informe anual resume las actividades del Comité de ONG de Viena sobre Drogas (VNGOC) en 2017, incluido el 60º período de sesiones de la Comisión de Estupefacientes.
Harm Reduction International subraya que los enfoques prohibicionistas y punitivos con respecto a las drogas no logran reducir el uso y el tráfico, y representan una clara contravención de los derechos humanos fundamentales en virtud del derecho internacional. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo
This is the tenth year that Harm Reduction International (HRI) has been working on the death penalty for drug offences and, regrettably, prohibitionist and punitive approaches to drugs continue to result in the execution of hundreds of people for non-violent drug offences every year. The majority of those sentenced to death and executed are low level couriers who often experience overlapping and intersecting forms of vulnerability, discrimination and exclusion and who are often subjected to forced confessions and unfair trials. Not only do these executions continue to fail to achieve any reduction in drug use and trafficking, they are also a clear violation of fundamental human rights under international law.
This report looks at the death penalty for drugs in law and practice. It also considers critical developments on the issue. Some of its key findings include:
There are at least 33 countries and territories that prescribe the death penalty for drug offences in law.
At least nine countries still have the death penalty for drug offences as a mandatory sanction, although three of these (Brunei Darussalam, Laos and Myanmar) are abolitionist in practice. Malaysia removed the mandatory sentence for drug offences in November 2017.
Between January 2015 and December 2017, at least 1,320 people are known to have been executed for drug-related offences – 718 in 2015; 325 in 2016; and 280 in 2017. These estimates do not include China, as reliable figures continue to be unavailable for the country
Taking China out of the equation due to a lack of data, Iran has been the world’s top executioner for drug offences by far, with at least 1,176 executions carried out since January 2015. That amounts to nearly 90% of all reported drug-related executions during that period.
Between 2015 and 2017, executions for drug offences took place in at least five countries: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Singapore.
Este documento ofrece recomendaciones para superar los desafíos que entrañan las políticas y prácticas actuales en Tailandia, de modo que el sistema de tratamiento de drogas pueda generar mejores resultados de salud y derechos humanos para las personas que consumen drogas y dependientes de ellas. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo
By Pascal Tanguay (LEAHN — Law Enforcement and HIV Network) and Verapun Ngamee (Ozone Foundation)
In 2016, the Kingdom of Thailand formally decided to re-allocate responsibility for drug dependence treatment from the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) by the end of 2018. The reforms are designed to increase voluntary access to client-centred drug dependence treatment where the MOPH will be expected to develop guidelines, operati ng standards and monitoring and evaluati on indicators to assess performance. Although Thailand’s drug treatment system has raised significant concerns over the past 15 years, this change is intended by the Government to indicate a shift in the overall approach to drug use and dependence to one based on health and human rights.
For the transition from public security to public health management of drug dependence treatment to generate positive results, the MOPH will require significant support to ensure adequate capacity to deliver drug treatment services that accord with scientific and international standards. Challenges to an effective transition lie in two key areas:
1. The objectives and guiding principles for a national drug treatment system based on principles of health and human rights are yet to be established, and need to be improved and aligned with international guidelines and good practices in order to generate better health outcomes for people who are dependent on drugs.
2. Diversion of people caught using drugs to drug treatment will still be managed and coordinated under the 2002 Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act, which retains punitive and coercive elements such as forced urine testing by law enforcement officers.
This paper offers a brief analysis of these two challenges in light of current policies and practices, along with recommendations for overcoming them to ensure the implementation of a drug treatment system that can result in improved health and human rights outcomes for people who use drugs and people dependant on drugs.
El IDPC plantea posibles vías para garantizar que el resultado del segmento ministerial de alto nivel que tendrá lugar en 2019 refleje los compromisos y debates internacionales.
Estas directrices respaldan un enfoque de cuidados escalonado e integrado, en el que la intensidad del tratamiento se ajuste de forma constante para responder a las necesidades y circunstancias individuales del paciente a lo largo del tiempo.
Intercambios Asociación Civil presenta una selección de las ponencias realizadas durante las ocho Conferencias que tuvieron lugar entre 2010 y 2017 en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
