Organized by the Brazilian Network for Harm Reduction and Human Rights, the Brazilian Drug Policy Platform, the Center of Studies for Law, Justice and Society, and Instituto RIA Vera da Ros, REDUC: We conceived this side event to think about the role of the judicial system in the war on drugs in Latin America; challenges …
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Side event: Criminalization and persecution vs. Health and development: The path forward
Organized by the International Drug Policy Consortium, Acción Técnica Social, Center of Studies for Law, Justice and Society, the Brazilian Drug Policy Platform, Fundación Friedrich Ebert en Colombia, Elementa, and Instituto RIA. Mariano Fusero (Remove term: RESET – Política de Drogas y Derechos Humanos): Since the end of the 90s to 2017 the prison population …
Side event: Drug control policies and the militarisation of security: Reflections on the experience in the Americas
Organised by Conectas, the Brazilian Drug Policy Platform, the Washington Office on Latin America and the Centre for Legal and Social Studies. Today we will be talking about how drug control policies and the militarisation of the Americas are related to each other. There are 2 specific moments related to this context: (1) last year, …
Side event: An analysis of drug policy from incarceration and lethality against the black population in the world
Dudu Ribeiro, Initiative Negra for a New Drug Policy. We cannot address race if we cannot talk about race. Yesterday, there was a debate on the resolution L13 around race and it was blocked in the CoW. In Sao Paulo, we had a good harm reduction programme called De Bracos Abertos, it provided support to poor people, drug …
Side event: Facing racism in drug policy: the colour of incarceration, lethality and drug abuse – the Brazilian experience
Chair: We have a progressive drug law in Brazil. No one should be imprisoned under the rule of law. But we have many in jail. Eduardo Rebiero dos Santos: In Brazil, black people represents about 53% of the total population, which is the equivalent to more than one hundred million people. And these people are found …