| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | international
'No one believed me': A global overview of women facing the death penalty for drug offences
'No one believed me': A global overview of women facing the death penalty for drug offences
The punitiveness of the international drug control system has been largely responsible for the growth of the world’s female prison population in the last three decades. In countries that punish drug offenses with death—a violation of international law—a large majority of the women on death row were convicted of drug-related offenses. This report examines the circumstances that lead women to commit or be charged with drug offenses and the impact of gender bias on the criminal process they experience. (By Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide and Harm Reduction International (HRI), 2021)