May 2010 Archives (News)
Children's Voices: Experiences and Perceptions of European Children on Drug and Alcohol Issues
01 May 2010
The European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction has launched a thematic paper on the perspectives of children affected by drugs and alcohol use and policies. The launch coincides with international children's day, June 1st. It is an important contribution and one delivered very much in the spirit of the UN Convention on the Rights of… Read more
Children in the Line of Fire in Ciudad Juárez
10 May 2010
Excerpt from a story published by Inter Press Service News Agency on May 10, 2010. CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico, May 10, 2010 (IPS) In Ciudad Juárez, the most violent city in Latin America, Mexico's war on drugs has left at least 110 children dead in the past three years, and over 10,000 have lost parents. Civil society organisations are… Read more
Why the Vietnamese Don't Want to Go to Rehab
28 May 2010
Why the Vietnamese Don't Want to Go to Rehab: Drug treatment in Southeast Asia is brutal, exploitative, and practically worthless By Joe Amon, Human Rights Watch (Published in Foreign Policy , 28 May 2010) Excerpt This month, nearly 600 drug addicts broke out of a rehabilitation center in the northern Vietnamese city of Haiphong. The… Read more