Drug Control and Human Rights in International Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drug Control and Human Rights in International Law write by Richard Lines. This book was released on 2017-06-29. Drug Control and Human Rights in International Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how international drug control law should be interpreted within the context of international human rights law.
Human Rights and Drug Control
Human Rights and Drug Control - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Rights and Drug Control write by Saul Takahashi. This book was released on 2016-08-11. Human Rights and Drug Control available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It has become almost accepted knowledge within international policy circles that efforts against drug trafficking and drug abuse violate human rights, and that the entire international drug control regime needs to be changed (or even discarded altogether) to adopt a more 'rights respecting' approach. Though this view has been promoted by many prominent figures and organisations, the author of this book uses his expertise in both human rights and drug control to show that the arguments advanced in this area do not stand close scrutiny. The arguments are in fact based on selective and questionable interpretations of international human rights standards, and on a general notion – more and more clearly stated – that there is a human right to take drugs, and that any effort to combat drug abuse by definition violates this right. There is no such right in international law, and the author objects to the misuse of human rights language as a marketing tool to bring about a 'back door' legalisation of drugs. Human rights issues must be addressed, but that in no way means that the international drug control regime must be discarded, or that efforts against drugs must be stopped.
Human Rights and Drug Control
Human Rights and Drug Control - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Rights and Drug Control write by Melissa L. Bone. This book was released on 2019-10-10. Human Rights and Drug Control available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book uses a human rights perspective – developed philosophically, politically and legally – to change the way in which we think about drug control issues. The prohibitionist approach towards tackling the ‘drugs problem’ is not working. The laws and mentality that see drugs as the problem and tries to fight them, makes the ‘drugs problem’ worse. While the law is the best-placed mechanism to regulate our actions in relation to particular drugs, this book argues against the stranglehold of the criminal law, and instead presents a human rights perspective to change the way we think about drug control issues. Part I develops a conceptual framework for human rights in the context of drug control – philosophically, politically and legally – and applies this to the domestic (UK) and international drug control system. Part II focuses on case law to illustrate both the potential and the limitations of successfully applying this unique perspective in practice. The conclusion points towards a bottom-up process for drug policy which is capable of reconfiguring the mentality of prohibition. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of human rights, criminal law, criminology, politics and socio-legal studies.
Child Rights and Drug Control in International Law
Child Rights and Drug Control in International Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Child Rights and Drug Control in International Law write by Damon Barrett. This book was released on 2020-03-31. Child Rights and Drug Control in International Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Child Rights and Drug Control on International Law, Damon Barrett explores the meaning of the child’s right to protection from drugs under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the relationship between this right and the UN drug control conventions
Towards Drug Policy Justice
Towards Drug Policy Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Towards Drug Policy Justice write by Damon Barrett. This book was released on 2023-12-19. Towards Drug Policy Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Taking the shifting global drug policy terrain as a starting point, this collection moves beyond debates about whether to reform drug policies to a focus on delivering ‘drug policy justice’ – repairing the damage caused by the war on drugs as a component of reform efforts and safeguarding against future harms in legal markets. This book brings together some of the leading international thinkers and advocates on harm reduction and drug policy to introduce key questions in contemporary drug policy. Across five themes, and with contributions from different regions and disciplines, it explores ethical, legal, empirical and historical perspectives on delivering ‘drug policy justice’ from supply through to use. Essays cover a wide range of issues, from the effects of COVID on drug policy to securing economic and environmental justice, and from human rights in Asian drug policy to questions of race and equity in cannabis reforms, providing diverse insights on both prominent and overlooked drug policy challenges. Towards Drug Policy Justice is a benchmark text for scholars, students, advocates and policymakers as the book explores new models of global drug policy reform.
