UN Human Rights Mechanisms & Drug Control

UN Human Rights Mechanisms & Drug Control

Over the past year, the HRDP has undertaken an analysis of the United Nations human rights mechanisms work on drug policy, to assess the current standards in place and to identify normative gaps requiring further development.  A series of briefing papers have been developed to further this project, which have been presented and used by various UN mechanisms in their current thematic work.

This project has been and continues to be generously supported by a team of postgraduate researchers from the Human Rights Centre.

No 1:Human Rights, Drug Control and the UN Special Procedures: Preventing arbitrary detention through the promotion of human rights in drug control, Julie Hannah, Nahir de la Silva (2015) PDF document

The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention The HRDP launches its first briefing paper series providing a human rights legal analysis of the intersections between UN human rights mandates and drug… Read more

No 2: Human Rights, Drug Control and the UN Special Procedures: Preventing arbitrary and extra-judicial executions through the promotion of human rights in drug control, Julie Hannah, Araks Melkonyan (2015)

The Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial summary, or arbitrary executions The HRDP launches its first briefing paper series providing a human rights legal analysis of the intersections between UN… Read more

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… Read more

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