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The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has called for an investigation into President Rodrigo Duterte’s drugs war in the Philippines.
It’s been almost three years since Rodrigo Duterte took power in the Philippines and his notorious war against drugs has been raging ever since.
Photojournalists have been documenting President Rodrigo Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’ which has left five thousand nine hundred people dead by both police and vigilante hit-men, in just five and a half months.
President Rodrigo Duterte is challenged on his country’s war on drugs and its reported use of “death squads” by Jonathan Miller, who later get’s called a ‘son of a whore’ by the President.
“Although rates of drug use and selling are comparable across racial lines, people of color are far more likely to be stopped, searched, arrested, prosecuted, convicted and incarcerated for drug law violations than are whites.” Drug Policy Alliance website An intriguing quote by a former aide to disgraced US President Richard Nixon is making headlines.…
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg claims Britain is losing the war against drugs on an industrial scale and insists laws need to be reformed – a position at odds with the prime minister.
The war on drugs has failed, according to a report by a group of politicians, former presidents and dignitaries, who are now calling for some drugs to be legalised.
A former minister is asking the government to consider legalising drugs, saying prohibiting them isn’t protecting the public. It comes just weeks after the government launched its new drugs strategy.
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Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, eats a coca leaf in front of the UN drug committee meeting in Vienna (see video below). He complains about the continuing war on what is a natural product in his country. We have discussed drugs here before. We have not been prepared to admit that the war on drugs…
The award-winning film, Heli, that shocked Cannes uncovers the drugs crisis in Mexico which has taken 100,000 lives in the last seven years. Krishnan Guru-Murthy meets its director Amat Escalante.
Thousands have died in the war on drugs, and narco money is flooding the economy – so can the presidential elections this weekend change anything for ordinary Mexicans? Carl Dinnen reports.
Mexican marines say they have captured a man presumed to be the son of cocaine king Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, the country’s most wanted man.
72 bodies have been found dumped at a ranch in northern Mexico after a shootout with gunmen from a suspected drugs cartel in a state that Lindsey Hilsum argues is under threat from the drugs barons.
Around 14 million people are thought to be living with mental illness in Uganda, yet just one percent of the country’s total health expenditure goes towards mental health.
Around 14 million people are thought to be living with mental illness in Uganda, yet just one percent of the country’s total health expenditure goes towards mental health.