INPUD: The war on drugs destroys lives
Posted by Marc | 15-03-2009 16:39 | Category: Drugs, War & conflicts
Campaign made by Better World Advertising for INPUD, the International Network of People who Use Drugs.
INPUD staged an action at the High-Level Meeting of the fifty-second session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna on March 11th and 12th. They all dressed in white, carried the banners as shown in this post and picket signs, passed out stickers and information pamphlets to the delegates and guests entering the United Nations building. There is a microsite to the campaign which invites people to join their movement towards peace to end the drug war.
One of their spokespersons Matthew Southwell participated in the High Level Segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs as a civil society/drug user representative on the UK delegation:
The United Nations should be the guardian of human rights and all divisions of the United Nations should adhere to the inalienable rights set out United Nations Charter on Human Rights. This declaration is a beacon of hope to oppressed and marginalised peoples around the world. However, within the UN, concern is mounting about the human rights abuses against people who use drugs conducted and justified under in name of Drug Control. My community is routinely denied the human rights that this organisation was founded to defend. It is indefensible that a division of the UN does not pay sufficient attention to addressing policies that may cause breaches of human rights against people who produce, sell and buy illicit drugs. We, the International Network of People who Use Drugs, offer our hand in friendship and invite you to begin negotiations to bring to an end this failed war on drugs.
Complete statement at ihrablog.net.
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INPUD, the International Network of People who Use drugs
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Better World Advertising
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