On human rights challenges in addressing and countering all aspects of the world drug problem: Joint submission by Eleos Justice, Faculty of Law, Monash University, Capital Punishment Justice Project (CPJP), and Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network (ADPAN)

This submission focuses on States’ use of the death penalty for drug offences. It argues that the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) needs to take a consistent approach in opposing the death penalty for drug offences and be a leader in global drug policy reform that shifts attention from an enforcement-based mode of drug control to a harm reduction approach.