{"id":20432,"date":"2022-04-19T09:36:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T13:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/?p=20432"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:50:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:50:04","slug":"failure-of-drug-prohibition-and-criminalization-to-protect-children","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/failure-of-drug-prohibition-and-criminalization-to-protect-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure of drug prohibition and criminalization to protect children"},"content":{"rendered":"The HIV Legal Network, in collaboration with the Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy and the Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation, made a submission on drugs and drug policy to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, as it reviewed Canada\u2019s compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child<\/i>. In the submission, we emphasized that drug prohibition and criminalization have failed to be appropriate measures for protecting children, including children who use drugs, thus violating various Articles of the Convention.<\/p>\n