Advancing the rescheduling process is a critically important achievement of the Biden-Harris administration. Harris reduced arrests as San Francisco DA, and supports legalization. Trump's seeming tolerance for cannabis law reforms may have less to it than meets the eye.
widely seen photo of funeral for victim of Duterte's drug war
Victims/survivors of Duterte's extrajudicial drug war killings face continuing hardship and indignity. This event will explore challenges they face, efforts being made to help them, and how it affects the ICC Philippines case.
The "Broken Chair," United Nations Office at Geneva
Our first side event at the Human Rights Council in Geneva took place in early October, and featured supporters of the long-imprisoners Philippine Senator.
Faced with an International Criminal Court investigation, the Duterte administration in the Philippines has argued that it is investigating its own drug war killing campaign and so the ICC shouldn't. The famous human rights attorney Chel Diokno will reply as part of our NGO side event next week, on the online margins of the annual Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Treaty.
Our parallel event this week for the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development will focus on extrajudicial killings and other drug war abuses in the Philippines and Indonesia, and international responses like the Global Magnitsky Act and the ICC Philippines case.
We continue our series of events at international meetings -- online for the moment -- with another focusing on extrajudicial killings in the drug war and options for the international community to respond.