Joint Submission: CESCR Periodic Review of Macedonia

Date: 13 May 2016

Macedonia: Drug policy and economic, social, and cultural rights

Joint Submission: CESCR Periodic Review

May 2016

This joint submission was developed with the Healthy Options Project Skopje’s (HOPS), and Coalition Sexual and Health Rights of Marginalized Communities (CSHRMC) on the occasion of the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights periodic review of Macedonia's implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.

In this submission the HRDP, HOPS, and CSHRMC map out key tensions between Macedonia's current national drug strategy and the full and effective realisation of economic, social and cultural rights, with a particular emphasis on non-discrimination and the right to health.