CAMBODIA: Rights to Justice and Rehabilitation of Tortured Victims
CAMBODIA: Rights to Justice and Rehabilitation of Tortured Victims
Filed under: drug rehabilitation centers
Human rights organizations have also documented all manner of depravity at Cambodia's forced drug treatment centers and so-called "social affairs centers", including beatings, killings and rape. The Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or …
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Calls For Transparency in China Labor Camp Reform
Filed under: drug rehabilitation centers
The government is turning many of the existing facilities into drug rehabilitation units, the U.S.-based Duihua Foundation said in an article on its website this week. "[Re-education through labor] RTL facilities in … Liaoning, Jiangsu, Jilin, and …
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Editorial: Save Drug Users, but Punish Dealers Hard
Filed under: drug rehabilitation centers
It is not wise, nor constructive to place young drug users in the same environment as hard-core prisoners, especially drug dealers. The president has called for drug users, especially first-time offenders, to be placed in rehabilitation centers where …
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US Mayors and marijuana policy
Filed under: drug rehabilitation centers
According to the GAO the drug czar and his agents have failed to provide the structure for congress to re-write the laws for “treatment instead of incarceration”. In other words Kevin Sabet has failed to convince investors to build the required rehab …
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