Human Rights Groups Show Unprecedented Support for Drug Policy Reform
Groups include Human Rights Watch and more than 50 NGOs working on human rights and drug policy. And an Avaaz petition tops 180,000 signatures!
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Human Rights Groups Push for an End to the War on Drugs
by Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch & David Holiday, Open Society Global Drug Policy Program, Latin America Program
Drug policy reform took center stage this week at a summit of the Americas with unprecedented support from human rights groups.
As several Latin American leaders focused the Organization of American States General Assembly on new possibilities for international drug control, civil society groups raised their voices as well, in favor of drug policies with a greater focus on health and human rights.
You can read more here: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/human-rights-groups-push-end-war-drugs