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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Human rights in Latin America being decimated by drug war, warns new report 🌿Human rights in Latin America being decimated by drug war, warns new report
The Center for Legal Social Studies (CELS) recently released a publication, entitled The Impact of Drug Policy on Human Rights, which has shed light upon some of the deep erosions of civil liberties and human rights that have been justified by the War on Drugs. The report – which primarily focuses upon the consequences of the drug war in Latin America – criticises how prohibition’s human rights implications have only recently become matters of discussion, despite the cyclical violence of prohibition having ravaged the region for decade.
Rather than the traditional prohibitionist rhetoric, which places blame for the drug trade upon users and traffickers, CELS’ report describes the widespread criminality around drugs as a fault of policymakers. “The prohibitionist approach”, it asserts, “fostered the creation of highly profitable illegal markets dominated by armed groups”.
Importantly, the scope of trafficking groups’ violence and human rights abuses goes far beyond the realm of...
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