HRDP Lectures

In this lecture at a conference at Edinburgh Law School, Dr Rick Lines gives an overview of his work on interpretive approaches to international drug control law. More background on the lecture…

The human rights impact of drug laws and policies is a new and emerging issue among human rights scholars and advocates. Using the issue of the compulsory detention of people who use drugs as a case…

Speaker: Joanne Csete PhD, MPH; Deputy Director of the Open Society Global Drug Policy Programme Date & Time: Tuesday, 29 April 2014; 2:00-4:00 pm (Q&A session inclusive) Venue: University of…

In the first event of the Essex Lecture Series on Human Rights and Drug Policy, Rick Lines and Damon Barrett, Co-directors of the centre, highlighted some of the topics and themes that could be…

Rick Lines, co-director of the centre, and Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project at the Insitute for Policy Studies, held the first lecture on human rights and drug policy at the University…

Damon Barrett of the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy delivered a seminar for PhD and Masters students at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, focusing on human rights and drug…

Damon Barrett, a Project Director at the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy today gave a presentation at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, as part of a seminar…

HRDP Co-Director, Damon Barrett, delivers an open lecture at the University of Iceland on the key features of a human rights based approach to drugs.

Lecturer: Dr Rick Lines, HRDP Chair, Executive Director, Harm Reduction International In this presentation given at the Asian Regional Congress Against the Death Penalty, Rick Lines reviews key…

HRDP Co-Director, Damon Barrett, addresses the plenary audience at the 2015 Drug Reform Conference in Washington, DC.  Video courtesy of Hungarian Civil Liberties Union