Human rights and drug control : the false dichotomy / Saul Takahashi.
2016
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Author
Title
Human rights and drug control : the false dichotomy / Saul Takahashi.
Published
Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2016.
Call Number
K5282 .T357 2016
ISBN
9781849467063 (hardback)
1849467064 (hardback)
9781509901128 (ePDF)
9781509901135 (ePUB)
1849467064 (hardback)
9781509901128 (ePDF)
9781509901135 (ePUB)
Description
vi, 199 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)945804286
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Takahashi, Saul. Human rights and drug control. Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016 9781509901135 (DLC) 2016015645
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Purchased from the income of the Soll Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Soll Fund
Table of Contents
1.
Introduction
1
I.
Some Terminology Issues---Legalisation, Decriminalisation, and Depenalisation
10
II.
Use/Abuse/Consumption
14
2.
Legal Standards and Regimes
16
I.
International Drug Control Regime
19
1988 Convention and Criminalisation
26
Treaty Monitoring Regime of International Drug Control
29
Enforcement Powers of INCB
32
INCB, UNODC, and Human Rights
35
II.
Human Rights
42
International Human Rights Regime
48
Human Rights Treaty Bodies and INCB
50
Charter-Based Bodies---The Human Rights Council
57
Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR)
60
III.
Article 33 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
62
3.
UNGASS and Developments in Latin America
69
I.
UNGASS
69
II.
Latin America: Regional Developments
72
III.
Latin America: Developments at the National Level
76
Bolivia
76
Uruguay
80
4.
Drug Control: Violating Human Rights?
84
I.
At First, There Was `Harm Reduction'
95
Substitution Treatment
101
Injection Rooms
105
Conclusion on Harm Reduction
109
II.
Human Rights as a Tool
110
Death Penalty
112
Law Enforcement and the Excessive Use of Force
120
Arbitrary Detention, Ill-Treatment and Forced Labour
128
Arbitrary Detention and the International Drug Control Conventions
137
III.
Persons who Abuse Drugs as a `Vulnerable Group'
139
IV.
Militarisation of Drug Law Enforcement
145
Organised Crime
147
Pain Relief and Legalisation of Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan
150
Pain Relief Globally
153
5.
Mandated Treatment and Drug Courts
157
I.
Portugal
170
6.
`Right to Abuse Drugs'
175
Afterword: Views of the Author
186
Index
195