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Published in: Shine A LightThe Human Cost of "War on Drugs"
50 years of criminalisation of drugs and 40 years of blatant failure of “war on drugs” has only made the problem...
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Published in: Shine A LightPFI: transferring billions from UK taxpayers to private financiers
The Private Finance Initiative has recklessly transferred billions from UK taxpayers to private financiers. Now...
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Published in: Shine A LightReasons to be cheerful: 10 things to celebrate during refugee week
Surviving persecution, fleeing across continents– for most of us these experiences are unimaginable. But as history...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of June 21st 2011
We lead this week with an excerpt from the documentary film, The Exile Nation Project - by our very own Charles...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Former Federal prisoner Amy Ralston Povah
In 1991 Amy Ralson Povah was sentenced to 24 years in Federal prison for a crime she did not commit. An incredible...
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Published in: Shine A LightCocaine Unwrapped
Interviewing Latin American leaders and victims of repressive policy, film-maker Rachel Seifert argues that the West...
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Published in: Shine A LightSaving the NHS: the fight goes on
Despite the deluge of coverage in England about the fate if its National Health Service there is a lack of alertness...
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Published in: Shine A LightTactical Questioning: Scenes from the Baha Mousa Enquiry
A review of Tricycle Theatre's dramatisation of the public inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa, an innocent Iraqi...
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Published in: Shine A LightBeating the Retreat: how much longer for Britain’s child soldiers?
As the Armed Forces Bill reaches its final stages, we have one last chance to stop Britain recruiting under 18s
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Published in: oDRUkrainian politics on trial
Ahead of parliamentary elections in 2012, Ukrainian President Yanukovych has initiated a number of high-profile...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of June 12th 2011
The Wire has been described by many critics as the greatest television series ever made and it has been praised for...
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Published in: HomeHIV/AIDS at the UN: Battleground of the war on drugs
Numerous campaigns have recently called for a fundamental rethink of global drugs policy and for the urgent scale up...
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Published in: Shine A LightDuty of Care: beyond the case of Mr Ward, cooked to death by gigantic outsourcer G4S
The horrible death of a respected Aboriginal elder casts doubt upon often-unchallenged assumptions about the virtues...
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Published in: oDRThe Navalny effect
Combining a patriotic appeal with new technology and Obama-style presentation, Alexei Navalny has emerged as the...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of June 4th 2011
With 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 system
Russia 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 III
A lowly researcher finds himself subject to the forces of the Russian security service and a flawed justice system....