The appointment of a new head of the lead United Nations anti-drugs agency is a precious opportunity to abandon a failed policy, says Juan Gabriel Tokatlian.
Ciudad Juarez is one of the world’s fastest growing cities. It is also one of the most violent.
Drug war violence in Mexico is truly horrific. But does it qualify as terrorism?
We lead this week's report with collection of voices calling for an end to the War on Drugs as a means of mitigating the violence that has engulfed places like Chicago and Mexico.
Last month amendments were passed to the law codifying the FSB’s surveillance of those citizens deemed to be threats to national security. Nicolai Petro, unlike some Western commentators, sees these as potentially making Russia's domestic security procedures among the world's most transparent.
We lead this week the US House of Representatives passing two significant pieces of legislation meant to begin reforming the thoroughly broken US criminal justice system.
Court scrutiny of the British security services is to be welcomed; we can't debate properly our security needs without openness.
For the last 12 months Russian cities have witnessed regular demonstrations to protest restrictions on the right to assemble enshrined in Article 31 in Russia’s Constitution. 31 May was no exception in Moscow, with particularly brutal police involvement. Strategy-31 is spreading: will the authorit
Convicted felons continue to be barred from voting in the US, with severe consequences for their rehabilitation and the democratic process. An effective campaign for their re-enfranchisement is vital, argues Rebecca Gould.
The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.
We lead this week's report with the Economist's cover story on the US prison system, a scathing indictment of the so-called Land of the Free. Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little.
