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Nearly 75 years after the United Nations called for the abolition of traditional uses of the coca leaf, the world…
Monday 12th June 2023 Dear Secretary General Guterres, We are writing to urge you to mark this year’s International Day…
Across Latin America, women who grow coca and opium poppy often play a major role in fighting for social change…
A new study by the Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho, CEDD) analyzes…
For decades, a prohibitionist approach to drug policy has been a key driver of social strife and human rights abuses,…
The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Andean Information Network (AIN) have published a new report today, titled Promoting Gender-Sensitive Drug Policies…
This commentary is a joint publication between the Costa Rican Association for Research and Intervention in Drugs (Asociación Costarricense para…
The people in the videos are featured because they represent the rarely revealed human side of the war on drugs.
By Kathryn Ledebur and Coletta A. Youngers* For the fifth year in a row, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has…
Across Latin America, the effects of disproportionate punishment for low-level, non-violent drug offenses are particularly severe for women. The following women were convicted and imprisoned for drug offenses in Colombia and Costa Rica. These are their stories.
This joint report analyzes the effects of drug policy in the Americas, including the militarization of law enforcement, the criminalization of consumption, the weakening of due process guarantees, mass incarceration, disproportionate penalties, and restrictions on access to health care.
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Carolina Jiménez Sandoval
Maureen Meyer
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