Human Rights and Drug Policy
In
December 2009, the Irish Centre for Human Rights, in partnership with the
International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy, established a Human Rights and Drug
Policy Project within the Faculty of Law at the National University of Ireland
Galway.
This
project established a Doctoral Fellowship in Human Rights and Drug Policy
within the Irish Centre for Human Rights, as well as a programme of activities
designed to promote research on human rights and drug policy issues within
other university human rights programmes.
The
project includes the production of the
International Journal on Human Rights and Drug Policy, the first and only
international peer reviewed law journal focusing exclusively on human rights
and drug policy.
MISSION STATEMENT
The International Centre on
Human Rights and Drug Policy is dedicated to the study of human rights
law and drug policies and programmes in order to
- Promote and disseminate international legal scholarship and research on human rights and drug policy
- Highlight the obligations of all governments and international
organisations to respect, protect and fulfil human rights in the
context of drug policy
- Promote a human rights-based approach to drug policy
The project concluded at the end of 2012.