Human Rights
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- Health and human rights legal framework for law on drug use and HIV/AIDS
- ( Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network , 2009)
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Many countries with injection-driven HIV and AIDS epidemics continue to emphasise criminal enforcement of drug laws over public health approaches, thereby missing or even hindering effective respon...
- Drug control and human rights
- ( Human Rights Watch , 2009)
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UN drug control agencies have paid little attention to whether international drug control efforts are consistent with human rights protections, or to the effect of drug control policies on fundamen...
Reviewing the General Assembly Special Session on Drugs
- ( International Drug Policy Consortium , 2009)
- A high level review has recently taken place of the progress against objectives set at the General Assembly Special Session on Drugs in 1998, namely, to eradicate or significantly reduce the productio...
- Why are national responses to drug harm reduction inadequate?
- ( International Harm Reduction Association , 2009)
- It is estimated that 15.9 million people inject drugs in 158 countries and territories around the world. Despite the proven efficacy of harm reduction interventions and endorsement by the UN bodies, u...
- War on drugs or war on drug users?
- ( Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network , 2009)
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A decade after governments worldwide pledged to achieve a 'drug-free world', there is little evidence that the supply or demand of illicit drugs has been reduced. This digital book from the Open So...
- A guide to ensuring occupational safety and health in the health services sector
- ( US Agency for International Development , 2008)
- These guidelines, published by the Ministry of Health of Uganda, recognise that all types of work are hazardous and persons at work are exposed to situations that may result into injury, disease or ev...
- A guide to high-quality palliative care and legal services
- ( Duncan Breen;Kathleen Brodrick;Sue Cameron / Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa , 2009)
- There is increasing recognition of the link between palliative care and human rights. This guide, published by the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa, offers guidance on policy and wa...
- Linking women’s mental and reproductive health
- ( S. Allanson;J. Astbury;M. Bandyopadhyay / World Health Organization , 2009)
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This literature review examines the link between mental health and women’s reproductive health. It explores the key issues affecting women throughout the life cycle and provides an evidence b...
The law and HIV/AIDS in prisons
- ( R. Pearshouse / Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network , 2006)
- UNAIDS suggests that approximately 30 percent of new HIV infections outside sub-Saharan Africa are due to contaminated injection equipment. This model-law resource by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Netwo...
- Preventing and treating HIV in prisons
- ( United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime , 2008)
- In many countries, the groups most vulnerable to HIV are also groups at increased risk of criminalisation and incarceration, as many of the same social and economic conditions that increase vulnerabil...
