{"id":6682,"date":"2012-04-18T18:29:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T18:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/cause-for-alarm\/"},"modified":"2022-07-04T14:34:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T12:34:40","slug":"cause-for-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/cause-for-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause for Alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One in four women in Central European and Central Asian prisons locked up for drug offences &#8211; according to a new study published by Harm Reduction International (HRI)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>At the 55th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs we met Damon Barrett, HRI\u2019s Deputy Executive Director, who speaks about the results of the study in our new movie:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cause for Alarm - Women in Prison for Drug Offences (Sub: Eng, Hun)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0KKRahQJ5-Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Vulnerable groups of society are always hit harder by the war on drugs \u2013 what is more, sometimes it seems all these prohibitionist drug policies are designed and intended to discipline and control people with no money, no power and no dignity. \u201cWomen are disproportionately facing prison for non-violent drug offences, often as a result of poverty and social marginalisation,\u201d says Eka Iakobishvili, Human Rights Analyst at Harm Reduction International, the author of a report published in March this year. She and her colleagues made the first assessment on the impacts of restrictive drug policies on women. After collecting data from fifty-one European and Central Asian countries they concluded that one in four women in prison are incarcerated for non-violent drug offences!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihra.net\/files\/2012\/03\/11\/HRI_WomenInPrisonReport.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/drogriporter\/imce\/ihra_womeninprisonreport_cover_amended_a5web.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihra.net\/files\/2012\/03\/11\/HRI_WomenInPrisonReport.pdf\">Please read the report here!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Posted by Peter Sarosi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One in four women in Central European and Central Asian prisons locked up for drug offences &#8211; according to a new study published by Harm Reduction International (HRI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2900,2894],"tags":[],"countries":[2692,2761],"section":[],"video-author":[2921],"drug":[],"archive":[3212,3214,3222,3240],"video-series":[],"class_list":["post-6682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-video-database","countries-austria-en","countries-global-drug-policy-related-films","video-author-drugreporter","archive-criminalisation","archive-drug-policy-and-law","archive-harm-reduction","archive-regulation-and-control"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"P\u00e9ter S\u00e1rosi","author_link":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/author\/sarosip-2\/"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin  - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cause for Alarm - Drugreporter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/cause-for-alarm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cause for Alarm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One in four women in Central European and Central Asian prisons locked up for drug offences &#8211; 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