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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 31st 2011The WHO refers to hepatitis C (HCV) as a “viral time bomb” due to the remarkable toll in worldwide infections and...
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Published in: HomeChasing Amy: Prohibition and the Infantilization of Addiction
Amy Winehouse was a sick young woman in desperate need of healing. Instead, we treated her like a misbehaving child....
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Published in: Shine A LightTheatre of Inhumanity: a damning portrayal of the UK asylum system
A new play shines a light on the dark side of the British asylum system, portraying with brutal clarity the inhuman...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 24th 2011
This report is dedicated to the memory of Amy Winehouse, who tragically passed away yesterday. As we mourn the loss...
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Published in: HomeMexican Caravan of Solace: a movement beginsA movement has begun in Mexico. United by the poet Javier Sicilia, victims of the misguided, corruption-fuelled war...
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Published in: Shine A LightWe must oppose the cruelty of Northern Ireland's new detention centre
The opening of the first purpose-built immigration detention centre in Northern Ireland this month, is a sad day as...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 18th 2011
This week we lead with the Committee for the Prevention of Torture's new Report on Poland - highlighting a serious...
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Published in: Shine A LightUK asylum: Fit for Purpose?
Over four years a young dramatist’s curiosity drew her into the UK’s asylum system. Her new play previews in London...
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Published in: oDRYuri Lutsenko: views from a prison cellOn the eve of the new year, Ukraine’s former Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko was arrested by special forces as he...
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Published in: Shine A LightShoot the NHS whistleblower: malignant managerialism is killing people
More lies, gags and payoffs - and in the NHS, unlike in News International, the victims end up dead
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 9th 2011
Portugal decriminalized all drugs 10 years ago and the results are in: decreased youth drug use, falling overdose...
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Published in: Shine A LightNew geographies of racism
As new patterns of racial violence emerge throughout the UK, anti-racist campaigners need to forge new solidarities...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Interview with The November Coalition
Founder Nora Callahan and her husband, activist and former prisoner Chuck Armsbury, talk about a lifetime spent...
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Published in: Shine A Light“Duty of care” vs “earnings per share”: private contractors in the UK immigration removals business
Private contractors are “out of control” and Amnesty International calls for a complete overhaul of UK immigration removals
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Published in: Shine A LightFrisk the 5-year-old: the UK Government’s new compassionate approach to child detention
Children are being routinely detained by inadequately-trained staff for long periods in immigration lock-ups at...
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Published in: Shine A LightA Crime against the British Justice SystemBritain's top crime-solving body is soon to close. The state-owned Forensic Science Service is being sold off by the...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 4th 2011
We lead this weeks Report with news that the Bolivian government has formally notified the UN Secretary General of...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project: Amy Ralston Povah (Pt. 2)
In Part II of her interview, Amy relays the horrors of her arrest and prosecution, the 9 years she spent in prison,...
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Published in: Shine A LightLondon, a city of slavery?
An eighteen-year-old trafficked girl Y, subjected to years of exploitation and abuse, broke her silence today in an...
