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"We, the signatory United Nations entities, call upon all stakeholders to join us in committing to taking targeted, coordinated, time-bound, multisectoral actions in the following areas. Supporting States to put in place guarantees against discrimination in law, policies, and regulations by... Reviewing and repealing punitive laws that have been proven to have negative health outcomes and that counter established public health evidence. These include laws that criminalize or otherwise prohibit...drug use or possession of drugs for personal use."This is an admission that the problem of drug abuse is a public health issue, not a criminal justice issue. Locking people in cages for the victimless behavior of ingesting substances arbitrarily deemed illegal by the State does nothing to reduce drug use or supply, as evidenced by the utter failure of the War on Drugs.
"Child slavery leaves deep scars on the lives of those children who suffer horrendous exploitation by adults - and this could well be only the tip of the iceberg," Longfield said, according to the Daily Mail. "These appalling crimes need to remain in the spotlight and be consigned to the past. I hope today's report highlighting the large number of children living vulnerable lives will be a spur for politicians to act."
"I went to the border to protest against the siege and support the prisoners in Jerusalem," the boy recalled the protest occurring on May 23 in an interview with RT.Khaled Ghamri suffered severe injuries, including one of his kidneys destroyed, a ruptured intestine, damaged liver and 12 severed arteries, as well as a fractured hand after he went to a demonstration near the Israeli border and got struck with live ammunition by the IDF.
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