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National Drugs Strategy: progress in 2015
by Lucy Dillon
The Department of Health has published its annual report for 2015 on progress in implementing the actions included in the National Drugs Strategy.The report is a descriptive account of activities over the period – in some cases they are reported at a national level, while in others they are reported at the level of the Community Healthcare Organisations (CHOs).
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After UNGASS 2016
UNGASS 2016 has been and gone. Held on 19–21 April in New York, it comprised not only the general assembly sessions but also over 40 side events, which were organised by individual member states, UN agencies and international NGOs.
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Drug users’ human rights
Just what are the rights of drug users and how can legislators, policy makers, law enforcers and service providers ensure their rights are taken into consideration? In 2015 the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) produced its first paper considering the drugs phenomenon from a human rights perspective, and in particular human rights as defined in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
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What are human rights?
According to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC), ‘human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to everyone. International law, including treaties, contain the provisions which give human rights legal effect.’1 In the decades since World War Two, human rights standards have been adopted at United Nations, Council of Europe and the European Union level. Ireland has committed to upholding many of these standards.
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