Costos por Región: China y Sudeste Asiático
Brunéi, Birmania, Camboya, China, Timor Oriental, Indonesia, Japón, Laos, Malasia, Filipinas, Singapur, Tailandia, Vietnam
Related Resources
War on drugs hitting poor women hard: study
A news article summarising the findings of a report on the war on drugs in Thailand. The report finds that women are being disproportionately affected by the country's punitive drug laws.
Informal drug policy dialogue in South East Asia discusses opium cultivation and expanding ATS markets
Describes the problems faced by opium farmers, people who use drugs and policymakers, and how to improve existing responses in the rapidly changing political, economic and security contexts of Southeast Asia.
http://www.talkingdrugs.org/idpc/informal-drug-policy-dialogue-in-south-east-asia-discusses-opium-cultivation-and
The rehab archipelago: Forced labor and other abuses in drug detention centers in Southern Vietnam
Human Rights Watch reveal how, in Vietnam, people detained by the police for using drugs can be held without due process for years, forced to work for little or no pay, and are sometimes subjected to torture and physical violence.
Inflicting Harm: Judicial corporal punishment for Drug and Alcohol Offences in Selected Countries
A Harm Reduction International report which reveals that in some countries thousands of drug and alcohol users are subjected to judicially sanctioned caning, flogging, lashing or whipping each year.
Compulsory Drug Detention Center Experiences among a Community-Based Sample of Injection Drug Users in Bangkok, Thailand
An academic report in the BMC International Health and Human Rights journal that raises concerns about Thailand's use of compulsory drug detention centres. The report finds that such coercive "treatment" is not consistent with scientific evidence on addressing drug addiction and should be phased out in favor of evidence-based interventions.
Somsanga’s secrets: Arbitrary detention, physical abuse, and suicide inside a Lao drug detention center
Human Rights Watch examines conditions in the Somsanga Treatment and Rehabilitation Center in Lao PDR. According to the report, detainees are held without due process, and many are locked in cells inside barbed wire compounds.
Jail the drug dealers, free the users
In a Bangkok Post article, Jon Ungphakom, a human rights activist and former Thailand senator, highlights the Count the Costs campaign and discusses the ineffectiveness of Thailand's harsh drug policy.
Dependent on Development: The interrelationships between illicit drugs and socioeconomic development
A thorough report examining the complex interrelationships between illicit drugs (production, trade and use), illicit drugs policies, human rights and social and economic development. The report draws attention to the fact that the association between drug policy and development policy has not been adequately acknowledged, thereby hindering the achievement of a human rights-based approach to both policy areas.
Human Rights and Drug Policy: Compulsory Drug Treatment
A short briefing outlining the extent and reality of compulsory treatment for drug users. The briefing describes the human rights violations associated with this practice.
Abuse in the Name of Treatment – Drug Detention Centres in Asia
A short film by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union that examines the detainment of drug users in compulsory rehabilitation centres throughout Asia. As revealed by a Human Rights Watch investigation, in such centres detainees are often forced to work for free, and are likely to be starved, beaten, tortured and raped.
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