While the United Nations gets ready for the first time in almost 20 years to go over the staleness of international drug law, supporters from all over the globe have teamed in a valid effort to sway the global governance to reform the policies that bring together individual nations to a standard of prohibition.
This enraged group of activists, which is made up of more than 100 influential organizations, submitted a declaration this past Tuesday demanding that world leaders allow government to amend their country’s drug laws without repercussion.
“Existing US and global drug control policies that heavily emphasize criminalization of drug use, possession, production, and distribution are inconsistent with international human rights standards and have contributed to serious human rights violations,” reads the letter backed by groups ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. “The criminalization of personal drug use and possession for personal use infringes on the right to privacy and basic principles of autonomy on which other rights rest.”
The document, drafted by the people at StoptheDrugWar.org, comes just as the United Nations is planned to meet in New York for its “High-Level Thematic Debate on the World Drug Problem,” which will act as a preliminary examination of global drug policies that will be heard before the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) 2016. There is rumors that more nations, including the U.S. would be more compelled to update antiquated drug laws if international powers were not ready to force them into submission for noncompliance to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic drugs.
The understanding among supporters is that current incarcerate and kill philosophies that changed the global War on Drugs into a worn out pair of clown shoes needs to be substituted with principles that can begin to fix a system in a state of post apocalyptic stress.
“The veneer of consensus that for so long sustained the failed global drug war and insulated it from critical examination is now broken,” Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance,stated “The stage is being set for a new global drug control paradigm for the 21st century better grounded in science, health, and human rights.”
Essentially, the proposal implies that U.N. treaties should provide governments the flexibility to reform their drug laws without committing of breach of U.N. conventions
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