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Vorlesung "Drug Policy in South East Asia: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward"

Speaker: Asmin Fransiska // Part of the GGS Teaching Assistantship Lecture Series 2015/16: Human Rights in Crisis? Perspectives on Politics, Culture and Gender

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11.11.2015 von 16:00 bis 18:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)

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Room E112, Philosophikum II, Haus E, Karl-Glöckner-Str. 21, 39394 Giessen

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Drug Policy usually contains three elements: demand reduction, supply reduction and harm reduction. Those elements should be preserved by human rights principles and the rule of law. However, drug policy in South East Asia primarily focuses on the supply reduction of drugs and the implementation of the international drug control or so called “war on drugs”. The negative result of this war are human rights violations such as forced rehabilitation towards drug users, torture, limited access to the essential medicine and death penalty for drug offences on the one hand, and on the  another hand there is evidently no reduction of the expansion of the illicit drug market in the area. Decriminalization is one of the approach that countries in South East Asia would like to implement. However,  wcould those negative consequences caused by war on drugs be vanished when countries in South East Asia try to promote the decriminalization approach for drug users? Or the establishment of compulsory rehabilitation centers as one of the ways to reduce illicit drug users under “decriminalization approach”? What should be done to balance the goals on reducing the consumption of drugs and illicit drug trafficking? Are those goals achievable and feasible under the current harsh laws against people who use drugs in all of South East Asui countries? Please find further information here.