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Author | : Damon Barrett |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2020-03-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004411496 |
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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
Author | : Daniel Wisehart |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2018-10-08 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1351047108 |
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This book provides for an extensive legal analysis of the international drug control system in light of the growing challenges and criticism that this system faces. In the current debate on global drug policy, the central pillars of the international drug control system – the UN Drug Conventions as well as its institutions – are portrayed as outdated, suppressive and seen as an obstacle to necessary changes. The book’s objective is to provide an in-depth and positivist insight into drug control’s present legal framework and thus provide for a better understanding of the normative assumptions upon which drug control is currently based. This is attained by clarifying the objectives of the international drug control system and the premises by which these objectives are to be achieved. The objective of the current global framework of international drug control is the limitation of drugs to medical and scientific purposes. The meaning of this objective and its concrete implications for States’ parties as well as its problems from the perspective of other regimes of international law, most notably international human rights law, are extensively analysed. Additionally, the book focuses on how the international drug control system attempts to reach the objective of confining drugs to medical and scientific purposes, i.e. by setting up a universal system that exercises a rigid control on drug supply. The consequences of this heavy focus on the reduction of drug supply are outlined, and the book concludes by making suggestions on how the international drug control system could be reformed in the near future in order to better meet the existing challenges. The analysis occurs from a general international law perspective. It aims to map the international drug control system within a wider context of international law and to understand whether the problems that the international drug control system faces are exemplary for the difficulties that institutionalized systems of global scope face in the twenty-first century.
Author | : Richard Lines |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : LAW |
ISBN | : 9781316768815 |
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This book explores how international drug control law should be interpreted within the context of international human rights law.
Author | : Richard Lines |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2017-06-29 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107171172 |
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This book explores how international drug control law should be interpreted within the context of international human rights law.
Author | : Melissa L. Bone |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2019-10-10 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1315310198 |
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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.
Author | : Saul Takahashi |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016-08-11 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1509901124 |
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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.
Author | : David R. Bewley-Taylor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2012-03-22 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107014972 |
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The first integrated analysis of the causes and effects of diverging views of drug use within the international community.
Author | : Marie Elske Gispen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Drug accessibility |
ISBN | : 9781780684543 |
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Controlled essential medicines are medicines included in the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, and whose active substance is listed under the international drug-control treaties. Their availability and accessibility therefore fall within the remit of both human rights and international drug-control law. Human Rights and Drug Control analyzes a human rights interpretation of the international drug-control framework, with an emphasis on advancing the access to controlled essential medicines in resource-constrained countries. It first aims to identify a human rights foundation of drug control by examining how human rights norms would balance the underlying tension: some controlled substances have a clear, evidence-based medical benefit, yet also have the potential to be misused, which may lead to dependency disorders. Having explored this premise in the context of human rights law and theory, this book then applies these findings to Uganda and Latvia-two 'best practice' countries-when it comes to improving the accessibility of morphine for pain treatment. Relying on qualitative research methods, the study explores whether the human rights basis of drug-control regulation may be adequately integrated into the structures of the present international drug-control system. It specifically deals with various technical, administrative, and procedural obligations relating to the import/export and retail trade of controlled medicines. The book concludes with a proposal on how a human rights approach to drug-control may be advanced, specifically highlighting the importance of reconciling international obligations with the local reality in which these obligations come into play. Dissertation. (Series: School of Human Rights Research, Vol. 80) Subject: Human Rights Law, Medical Law, International Law]
Author | : David R. Bewley-Taylor |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2020-09-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1788117069 |
Download Research Handbook on International Drug Policy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Analysing arguably one of the most controversial areas in public policy, this pioneering Research Handbook brings together contributions from expert researchers to provide a global overview of the shifting dynamics of drug policy. Emphasising connections between the domestic and the international, contributors illustrate the intersections between drug policy, human rights obligations and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, offering an insightful analysis of the regional dynamics of drug control and the contemporary and emerging problems it is facing.
Author | : Amnesty International |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Drug control |
ISBN | : |
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In this joint submission before the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on Drugs, Amnesty International and the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy call upon States and UN institutions to recognise international drug control as a thematic human rights concern and to move beyond the current rhetoric, towards institutional commitments that improve international drug policy by ensuring the respect and protection of human rights. The lead up to a new Political Declaration and Plan of Action to be adopted in 2019 is a critical moment to ensure that political commitments to drug control have clear, unambiguous articulations of international human rights law and standards.