Margarette May Macaulay

Commissioner Margarette May Macaulay is Rapporteur on the Rights of Women, Inter-American Commission of Human Rights.

Is the ‘war on drugs’ destroying women’s lives?

Across the world, women are being incarcerated at an alarming rate for drug offences. The vast majority are single mothers, and facing situations of extreme poverty.

By Coletta A Youngers, Nischa Pieris and Margarette May Macaulay

/ 19 May 2016