Date: 01 May 2010
This report from Harm Reduction International exposes the links between the carrying out of executions and the financial contributions from European governments, the European Commission and the UNODC to support drug enforcement operations in countries that use the death penalty such as China, Iran and Vietnam. The report notes that such operations continue to be funded without appropriate safeguards despite the fact that the abolition of the death penalty is a requirement of entry into the Council of Europe and the European Union and that the United Nations advocates strongly against capital punishment.
Citation: Rick Lines, Damon Barrett and Patrick Gallahue. ‘Complicity or Abolition? The Death Penalty and International Support for Drug Enforcement‘ (Harm Reduction International) 2010
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