Como tem sido amplamente documentado, a violência contra as mulheres em nossos países, enraizada no sexismo e na discriminação estrutural, é aumentada pelo contexto de violência armada da região, o qual, por sua vez, está diretamente relacionado ao tráfico de drogas. Então, o combate ao aumento da violência contra as mulheres exige uma revisão urgente das políticas que proíbem o comércio de drogas.
‘Putting Full Recovery First’ is the Government’s “Road Map to Recovery” published on behalf of the Inter Ministerial Group on Drugs by The Home Office at the end of March 2012. While The Alliance welcomes government intentions to describe its approach to meeting the challenges of drug and alcohol and the joint consideration of alcohol and drugs in the document, we believe “Putting Full Recovery First” is problematic.
Recognizing that they will have a stronger voice as a single force, parents from various parts of Ukraine mobilized to form an all-Ukrainian network, “The Right to Life, ” to advocate for improved methadone and buprenorphine treatment.
Free speech and drug policy advocates alike were chilled recently by the Russian drug control service, which shut down the website of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation (ARF) for promotion of illegal drug use in February.
While the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria declared the Russian government too rich to receive support in November, harm reduction NGOs will be eligible for a two-year emergency funding.
A group of OST patients in Donetsk, Ukraine celebrated a victory in March when the local department of health signed the decree making methadone treatment available in all inpatient healthcare facilities.
A paradigm shift, combining repression of the violent drug trade with increased investments in treatment and prevention, would be the best contribution that Latin America could make to global reform of drug policies.
The Sixth Summit of the Americas is an opportunity for States to show their compromise with human rights and, in particular, the guarantee of women’s rights in the Latin-American region, opening the debate on regulation of legal trade in drugs. The review of the current drug control policy is therefore a matter of human rights and should be an unavoidable obligation for democratic States.
Political divides in the Central American region around drug control surfaced sharply at the recent regional summit on “New Routes against Drugs Trafficking”, that took place on Saturday 24 March in Guatemala. Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina called for an open debate on the security crisis and on policies to reduce the rampant drug-related violence, stating that current policies have been so ineffective that all options including the ‘depenalisation’ of drugs should be on the table.
For years, emergency services staff summoned to the site of an overdose in Georgia have called the police to ascertain whether criminal charges should be laid. The practice has discouraged drug users from seeking medical treatment, and recently moved the Georgian Harm Reduction Network to ask the Minister of Interior, Vano Merabishvili, to amend the policy to protect the lives of those overdosing and those who helped resuscitate them.
The war on drugs has failed and Australia should consider legalising some substances, according to a new report backed by some eminent Australians. A recent national radio discussion took place on drug policy reform.
