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International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Control: A Tool for Securing Women’s Rights in Drug Control Policy
Discrimination and inequality shape women’s experiences of drug use and in the drug trade and the impact of drug control efforts on them, with disproportionate burdens faced by poor and otherwise marginalized women. In recent years, UN member states and UN drug control and human rights entities have...
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2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5473054/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28630557 |
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author | Schleifer, Rebecca Pol, Luciana |
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description | Discrimination and inequality shape women’s experiences of drug use and in the drug trade and the impact of drug control efforts on them, with disproportionate burdens faced by poor and otherwise marginalized women. In recent years, UN member states and UN drug control and human rights entities have recognized this issue and made commitments to integrate a ‘gender perspective’ into drug control policies, with ‘gender’ limited to those conventionally deemed women. But the concept of gender in international law is broader, rooted in socially constructed and culturally determined norms and expectations around gender roles, sex, and sexuality. Also, drug control policies often fail to meaningfully address the specific needs and circumstances of women (inclusively defined), leaving them at risk of recurrent violations of their rights in the context of drugs. This article explores what it means to ‘mainstream’ this narrower version of gender into drug control efforts, using as examples various women’s experiences as people who use drugs, in the drug trade, and in the criminal justice system. It points to international guidelines on human rights and drug control as an important tool to ensure attention to women’s rights in drug control policy design and implementation. |
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spelling | pubmed-54730542017-06-19 International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Control: A Tool for Securing Women’s Rights in Drug Control Policy Schleifer, Rebecca Pol, Luciana Health Hum Rights Research-Article Discrimination and inequality shape women’s experiences of drug use and in the drug trade and the impact of drug control efforts on them, with disproportionate burdens faced by poor and otherwise marginalized women. In recent years, UN member states and UN drug control and human rights entities have recognized this issue and made commitments to integrate a ‘gender perspective’ into drug control policies, with ‘gender’ limited to those conventionally deemed women. But the concept of gender in international law is broader, rooted in socially constructed and culturally determined norms and expectations around gender roles, sex, and sexuality. Also, drug control policies often fail to meaningfully address the specific needs and circumstances of women (inclusively defined), leaving them at risk of recurrent violations of their rights in the context of drugs. This article explores what it means to ‘mainstream’ this narrower version of gender into drug control efforts, using as examples various women’s experiences as people who use drugs, in the drug trade, and in the criminal justice system. It points to international guidelines on human rights and drug control as an important tool to ensure attention to women’s rights in drug control policy design and implementation. Harvard University Press 2017-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5473054/ /pubmed/28630557 Text en Copyright © 2017 Schleifer and Pol http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research-Article Schleifer, Rebecca Pol, Luciana International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Control: A Tool for Securing Women’s Rights in Drug Control Policy |
title | International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Control: A Tool for Securing Women’s Rights in Drug Control Policy |
title_full | International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Control: A Tool for Securing Women’s Rights in Drug Control Policy |
title_fullStr | International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Control: A Tool for Securing Women’s Rights in Drug Control Policy |
title_full_unstemmed | International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Control: A Tool for Securing Women’s Rights in Drug Control Policy |
title_short | International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Control: A Tool for Securing Women’s Rights in Drug Control Policy |
title_sort | international guidelines on human rights and drug control: a tool for securing women’s rights in drug control policy |
topic | Research-Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5473054/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28630557 |
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