Nine former heads of state write an open letter to President Obama, asking for the final days of the presidency to be used to commute more prison sentences of low-level drug offenders.
More than 400 people have been arrested for drug crimes since a new six-month narcotics crackdown started on New Year’s Day, a measure experts have deemed counterproductive.
The incoming Thai Justice Minister has called for a more comprehensive, balanced approach, but shied from engaging with his predecessor’s idea to decriminalise certain substances.
As we begin 2017, Gino Vumbaca, President of Harm Reduction Australia, lays out a path towards making Australia a safer and more humane country with respect to drug policy.
The UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions has called on the Philippines to lift a series of preconditions it has imposed on her planned visit to investigate the extra-judicial killings since President Rodrigo Duterte took office.
