Role of human rights against drugs extolled

UN: UN High Commissioner Navi Pillay highlighted the importance of the respect for human rights and the reduction of damages Tuesday in the international fight against the use of drugs.

“Those who consume drugs don’t lose their human rights,” the South African lawyer expressed in the final preparations of an international meeting scheduled for this week in Vienna to revise the progress of the international control of drugs in the last decade.

Pillay pointed out that often, addicts suffer discrimination, they are forced to accept treatment, and in occasions damaged by people who degrade the suffering and the respect of the human rights when talking about the topic, stressing criminalization.

The statements of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights occur next to the beginning of the segment of high level of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs that will take place in Vienna on March 11 and 12.

She said she was highly concerned on the consumers of drugs, including those that are imprisoned for whom she requested appropriate services and health treatments.

New York, Prensa Latina