We also urge governments to adopt alternative policies concerning the drug trade to reduce the enormous human rights costs of current approaches, including by reducing the use of the criminal law ...

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Across the globe, political leaders tried to use the pandemic to quash outcries against human rights abuses in what ... Saudi Arabia that feeds into the current conflict. “Oftentimes what ...

recently shared that ‘there is a decrease’ in reported incidents of human rights violations in the current administration.

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High-Level Side Event on the margins of the 58th regular session of the Human Rights Council ...