In the days leading up to the execution, serious unfair trials and miscarriages of justice experienced by those to be executed were raised by lawyers, family members and human rights groups. […]

Human rights and drug policy activists gathered outside of the Philippines’ consulate in New York City to protest President Duterte’s violent war on drugs. Duterte’s bloody crusade has led to at least 1,800 extra-judicial killings so far, as police squads and vigilante groups roam the country killing alleged drug dealers. […]

Only with the total eradication of criminal penalties for drug “offenses”—applied retroactively, and with some form of reparations for those who have been targeted—will the drug policy reform movement achieve its greatest good. […]

New Zealand law allows anyone who is prescribed a medicine overseas to bring one month’s supply into the country for their own use – including cannabis products. […]

A poll out this week found 80 percent of New Zealanders supported legalising cannabis for medicinal purposes and a majority in favour of allowing people to have a small amount for personal use. […]

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has railed against the United Nations after it called for an end to the wave of killings unleashed by his war on drugs, saying he might leave the organisation and invite China and others to form a new one. […]

“Allegations of drug-trafficking offences should be judged in a court of law, not by gunmen on the streets,” today said two UN human rights experts, while urging the Government of the Philippines to put an end to the wave of extrajudicial executions in the context of an intensified anti-drug campaign targeting drug dealers and users. […]

Until recently, I was against legalising, or even decriminalising cannabis. I’m one of the few people I know who has never used the drug and I had been influenced by the culture of fear fostered by the war on drugs. The deeper I delve into the issue, the more I am struck by how frightening the consequences of prohibition are.…

The case is one of several expected to be the focus of potentially explosive hearings next week before the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights, which Ms. de Lima oversees. […]

Last year the HIV rate in a single Indiana county was higher than that in any country in sub-Saharan Africa. Would adopting an Australian-style harm-reduction strategy change that? […]