NEWS AND RESOURCES // Detention as Treatment
March 9, 2012
Twelve United Nations entities have issued a joint statement calling for the closure of compulsory drug detention and rehabilitation centers. The existence of such centers often leads to human rights abuses and threatens the health of detainees.
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compulsory detention, Drug Policy, drug treatment, drug users, sex workers, UNAIDS, United Nations, World Health Organization
January 27, 2012
Civil society groups submitted a report to the UN Human Rights Council highlighting ongoing severe abuse of people in India's drug detention centers. The groups report that the abuse often rises to the level of torture.
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India
Asian Harm Reduction Network, death penalty, drug treatment, drug users, harm reduction, Harm Reduction International, India, Indian Harm Reduction Network, physical abuse, United Nations
January 23, 2012
An opinion piece published in the journal Addiction recounts the litany of abuses at government-run compulsory drug treatment centers inflicted upon people who are suspected of using illicit drugs.
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December 1, 2011
This INTERIGHTS Bulletin provides a comprehensive overview of torture in health care focusing firmly on accountability, particularly in respect of hidden abuses suffered by some of the most vulnerable and marginalized members of society.
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compulsory detention, drug treatment, pain relief, reproductive rights, sex workers, tuberculosis, United Nations
October 11, 2011
A new report by Human Rights Watch finds that police and local militia in Laos are forcibly detaining people who use drugs in a so-called treatment center where they risk beatings and other abuse. Homeless people, street children, people with mental disabilities, and others deemed undesirable are often detained in the center as well.
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Laos
compulsory detention, drug treatment, drug users, forced labor, homeless, Human Rights Watch, intellectual disabilities, Laos, mental health, physical abuse
July 18, 2011
As part of a series of stories on Indonesia, PBS NewsHour’s Ray Suarez reports on cruel and inhuman conditions inside some of the country’s “treatment” centers for people with mental health problems.
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Indonesia
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