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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of June 4th 2011With much attention focused this week on the landmark Global Commission Report, the Drug Policy Report takes a look...
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Published in: HomeDrug Policy Forum Special Report - The Global Commission on Drug Policy
On Thursday the Global Commission on Drug Policy released a groundbreaking report condemning the drug war as a...
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Published in: oDRRussia's dead end prison systemRussia imprisons a proportion of its citizens higher than any other major country except the US. And with its...
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Published in: HomeDrugs, the Death Penalty and a Cautionary Tale for Governments
The harrowing struggle to spare a young Australian named Scott Rush from the firing squad in Indonesia appears to be...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of May 23rd 2011
We lead this weeks Report with news of a landmark ruling by the US Supreme Court to reduce California's severe...
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Published in: oDRFinding the innocent guilty: part IIIA lowly researcher finds himself subject to the forces of the Russian security service and a flawed justice system....
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Published in: oDRFinding the innocent guilty: part IIA lowly researcher finds himself subject to the forces of the Russian security service and a flawed justice system....
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Published in: oDRFinding the innocent guilty: part IA lowly researcher finds himself subject to the forces of the Russian security service and a flawed justice system....
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Published in: Shine A LightThe NHS Bill: take action on an unprecedented pause
Professor Wendy Savage argues that the pause in the passage of the Health and Social Care Bill, which claims to...
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Published in: oDRViolence, death and cover-up in the Russian armyHazing of new recruits is infamously widespread in the Russian army and families of men who have died find their...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of May 16th 2010
We lead this weeks report with a message from the Drug Policy Alliance's Executive Director, Ethan Nadelmann, on the...
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Published in: Shine A LightUnique Britain
Startling wage inequality, shocking child poverty, but thankfully – to date - low support for fascism. Danny Dorling...
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Published in: oDRHalf a victory: the campaign to free Soviet JewsThe campaign to give Soviet Jews the right to leave their country brought two diasporas and a world superpower...
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Published in: Shine A LightFast track to despair
In the UK, people lose their liberty simply for claiming asylum. On the 60th anniversary of the Refugee Convention,...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe UK continues to detain children, a year after the Coalition's pledge to end it
A year ago, the Coalition pledged to end the practice of child detention in the UK. Yet the real agenda of the UK...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe coordinated attack on multiculturalism
Centre-right parties across Europe are announcing the failure of multiculturalism. We are witnessing a co-ordinated...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of May 9th 2011
This week we lead with news that as tens of thousands of people in Mexico take to the streets to demand an end to...
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Published in: Shine A LightJustice for asylum seekers in the UK?
Proposals to reform legal aid in the UK will leave asylum seekers ever more dependent on the good will of solicitors...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project: Christian Parenti on American Incarceration
In this excerpt from his interview for The Exile Nation Project, Parenti describes what has changed in the twelve...
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Published in: HomeA Prescription for Recovery
Lisa Mojer Torres, a vocal proponent of Methadone Maintenance sadly died on April 5th. Reading her changed my...
