Items tagged with human rights and iran
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Human Rights and drug policy [01.01.2020] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) has always believed in the need to find global answers to global problems, been a strong defender of multilateralis ... |
Iran's easing of drug laws could halt execution of 5,000 prisoners [10.01.2018] | The lives of more than 5,000 prisoners on death row in Iran could be spared as a change in the law abolishes capital punishment for some drug-traffic ... |
Iran plans to decriminalise drug use allowing government to give diluted drugs to addicts [27.07.2017] | Iran could be on the verge of decriminalising some forms of drug use to allow the government to distribute drugs to addicts. By allowing the governme ... |
Iran under pressure to abolish death penalty for drug trafficking [27.06.2016] | Iran is under pressure to end its use of death penalty against drug traffickers after facing a serious shortfall in the international funding of the ... |
Iran executed all adult men in one village for drug offences, official reveals [25.02.2016] | The entire adult male population of a village in southern Iran has been executed for drug offences, according to Iran’s vice-president for women and ... |
Global drug policy is still deadly and ineffective [02.06.2014] | If you actually read the treaties, while they do set firm limitations on the legal, "non-medical" or "non-scientific" sale of schedule drugs — limits ... |
Denmark ends Iranian drug crime support [09.04.2013] | The Danish development minister, Christian Friis Bach (Radikale), has decided to cease providing financial support to a United Nations anti-drug prog ... |
Call for end to anti-drug aid for regimes with death penalty [29.12.2012] | Human rights groups have urged the UK government to heed the recommendations of an influential parliamentary committee that has told the government t ... |
The Death Penalty for Drug Offences [19.11.2012] | Executions for drug offences have escalated in countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia against a trend towards abolition globally, reveals a new Harm ... |
UK aid to Iran's war on drugs has led to rise in hangings, UN warns [27.10.2012] | Britain's funding of Iran's anti-drugs trafficking programmes has been called into question after a UN watchdog expressed alarm at a sharp rise in th ... |
How International Aid for Drug Enforcement Fuels Human Rights Abuses [02.10.2012] | It is increasingly clear that there is a fundamental lack of oversight of how international aid – provided by the US, Europe and the United Nations t ... |
Partners in Crime [20.06.2012] | Millions of dollars in international aid for drug enforcement is spent in countries with extremely poor human rights records and with little or no ac ... |
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