No 3: Human Rights, Drug Control and the UN Special Procedures: Preventing torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment through the promotion of human rights in drug control, Julie Hannah, Araks Melkonyan (2015)

The Special Rapporteur on torture, and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment

The HRDP launches its first briefing paper series providing a human rights legal analysis of the intersections between UN human rights mandates and drug control.  These briefing papers offer UN human rights institutions, States, and civil society advocates tools to promote drug policy as an issue deserving further thematic attention within the UN human rights system.

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Citation: No 3: Julie Hannah, Araks Melkonyan, 'Human Rights, Drug Control and the UN Special Procedures: Preventing torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment through the promotion of human rights in drug control' (2015)