| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | international
Seven Ways (Just for a Start) the War on Drugs Violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Seven Ways (Just for a Start) the War on Drugs Violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Global leaders celebrate Human Rights Day each December 10—often touting their own violent anti-drug policies as part of their state’s purported goal to observe the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
On inspection, of course, punitive drug policies do not support human rights, but rather glaringly violate them. Although all 30 rights listed in the UN Declaration are surely assaulted in some way by prohibition, the first seven rights listed on the 70-year-old document are strikingly disregarded by governments that strive to engineer a “drug-free” world. (Filter, USA, 10.12.2018)