USA. CARL L. HART: The Real Opioid Emergency (New York Times, 18.08.2017) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/opinion/sunday/opioids-drugs-race-treatment.html

Iranian lawmakers have amended the country's strict laws on narcotics, making it harder to put people to death for drug-related crimes. The law could affect hundreds of inmates on death row in the conservative country. (Deutsche Welle, 14.08.2017)...

This special section of Health and Human Rights Journal examines some of the many ways in which international and domestic drug control laws engage human rights and create an environment of enhanced human rights risk. In this edition, th...

(...) From 1980 to 2014, the rate of growth in the number of women in prison outpaced that of men by more than 50 percent (and black women continue to be incarcerated at twice the rate of white women). Women are particularly vulnerable to the drug...

President Rodrigo Duterte has called for the introduction of the death penalty in the Philippines for a range of offences – including drug possession - as his country’s brutal slaughter of people who use drugs continues. (TalkingDrugs,...

UN. Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on a gender-sensitive approach to arbitrary killings United Nations, Human Rights Council, Thirty-fifth session 6-23 June 2017 http://fileserver.idpc.net/libr...