Side event at the 69th session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs

Drugs are an issue which – like migration, social liberalization and economic tensions – has the capacity to shatter democratic and human rights norms. Perhaps no other extreme found in drug policies today does so more than that of extrajudicial killings.  "Murder on the Land and the Sea" will discuss identified episodes of drug war EJKs in the 21st century, their context and interrelationships, and their implications for the future of democracy and the rules-based order.

 The program will have a focus on drawing the parallel between the Duterte drug war killings and the Trump boat strikes; and making the case for accountability and for treating the boat strikes as a matter of gravity, despite the relatively small number of direct victims and the larger events occurring in foreign affairs today.  It may also address the massacre committed recently by police in Rio de Janeiro.  It will highlight the suffering of people in affected regions.  Note will be made of other extrajudicial drug war killing episodes, including Indonesia, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Venezuela.

Speakers:

• Moderator: Kat Murti, Executive Director, Students for Sensible Drug Policy
• David Borden, Executive Director, StoptheDrugWar.org
• Carlos Conde, Rights Report Philippines, former Human Rights Watch, NYT
• Diego Garcia-Devis, Drug Policy Team Manager, Open Society Foundations
• Annie Shiel, US Advocacy Director, Center for Civilians in Conflict

Organized by DRCNet Foundation AKA StoptheDrugWar.org, with cosponsors Associazone Luca Coscioni, Drug Policy Alliance, Forum Droghe, International Drug Law Advocacy & Resource Center, No Peace Without Justice, NoBox Transitions Philippines, Philippine Coalition for the International Criminal Court, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Veterans Action Council, Washington Office on Latin America

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