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- Barrett, Damon, et al.
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Article 33: The Right to Protection from Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances
- 2019
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Ingår i: J. Tobin (ed) The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Commentary. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780198262657
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter presents a legal analysis of Article 33 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, addressing the child's right to protection from drugs and involvement in the drug trade.
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- Barrett, Damon, et al.
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Best interests and low thresholds: legal and ethical issues relating to needle and syringe services for under 18s in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Harm Reduction Journal. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1477-7517. ; 19:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Access for legal minors to needle and syringe programmes raises a number of practical, legal and ethical challenges that traverse clinical practice, child protection and child rights. This article addresses the current legal age restriction on access to needle and syringe programmes (NSPs) in Sweden. Based on legislation and legislative preparatory works, it traces the rationale for retaining an age restriction in the context of a policy priority to improve access for people who inject drugs. Building on threshold theory and child rights literature, the article unpacks the apparent tension between protecting the low threshold nature of service provision, child protection duties of healthcare staff, and the best interests of the child. It explores whether this tension could be alleviated through replacing a legal age restriction for all with best interests assessments for each individual, and discusses the potential ethical and practical challenges involved in such a change.
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- Barrett, Damon
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Canada, cannabis and the relationship between UN child rights and drug control treaties
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Journal of Drug Policy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0955-3959. ; 71, s. 29-35
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Article 33 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child requires States to take appropriate measures to protect children from illicit drugs ‘as defined in the relevant international treaties’. Those treaties are the UN drugs conventions. Following cannabis legalisation, then, can Canada remain in compliance with the CRC while breaching treaties to which Article 33 expressly refers? This article investigates this question with reference to the drafting of the CRC and the drugs conventions, how the relationship between the two systems has been approached, and the practice of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child from 1993-2015. While the CRC could offer an alternative framework through which to critically assess drug laws and policies, by and large it has operated so as to reinforce the drug control system. An interpretation of Article 33 in the light of Canada's cannabis reforms is proposed. Based on the text of the provision, the pacta tertiis rule, and the object and purpose of the provision, it decouples the CRC from the normative requirements of the drugs conventions. © 2019 Elsevier B.V.
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- Barrett, Damon, et al.
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Child-centred harm reduction
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Drug Policy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0955-3959 .- 1873-4758. ; 109
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Harm reduction has become increasingly influential in drug policy and practice, but has developed primarily around adult drug use. Theoretical, practical, ethical and legal issues pertaining to children and adolescents under the age of majority – both relating to their own use and the effects of drug use among parents or within the family – are less clear. This commentary proposes a sub-field of drug policy at the intersection of harm reduction and childhood which we refer to as ‘child-centred harm reduction’. We provide a definition and conceptual model, as well as illustrative questions that emerge through a child-centred harm reduction lens. Many people in different countries are already working on these kinds of issues, whose work needs greater recognition, analysis and support. In beginning to name and define this sub-field we hope to improve this situation, and inspire further international debate, collaboration, and innovation.
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- Barrett, Damon
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Child Rights and Drug Control in International Law
- 2020
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Responding to the harms caused by drugs is one of the most challenging social policy issues of our time. In Child Rights and Drug Control on International Law, Damon Barrett explores the meaning of the child’s right to protection from drugs under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the relationship between this right and the UN drug control conventions. Adopting a critical approach, the book traces the intersecting histories of the treaties, the role of child rights in global drug policy discourse, and the practice of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. It invites us to reflect upon the potential for child rights to provide justification for state actions associated with wider human rights risks.
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- Barrett, Damon
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Children of the drug war (Edited collection)
- 2011
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A unique collection of original essays that investigates the impacts of the war on drugs on children and young people. With contributions from around the world and utilizing a wide range of styles and approaches including ethnographic studies, personal accounts and interviews, the book asks three fundamental questions: What have been the costs to children of the war on drugs? Is the protection of children from drugs a solid justification for current policies? What kinds of public fears and preconceptions exist in relation to drugs and the drug trade?
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- Barrett, Damon
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Drug Policy and Human Rights in Europe: Managing Tensions, Maximising Complementarities
- 2018
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report explores the application of human rights standards and tests to drug policies in the Europe. Basic principles and tests are set out, and a conceptual model is presented. Illustrative examples including random school drug testing, prison healthcare and European funding for cross-border trafficking are applied.
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- Barrett, Damon, 1977-
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Drugs and the Convention on the Rights of the Child : Fragmentation, Contention and Structural Bias
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Responding to the harms caused by drug use and the drug trade is one of the most pressing and interdisciplinary challenges of our time, within which the protection of children has become central. But there has been relatively little academic attention to the international legal dimensions of drug policy, despite the existence of a dedicated international legal framework on the issue and a range of other treaties that include drugs in some way. This has begun to change in recent years as attention to human rights in drug policy has increased, and as calls for reform to the extant international legal regime of drug control have grown. This thesis adds by focusing on the only core UN human rights treaty to refer to drugs – the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Based on archival research, extensive document analysis, participant observation at UN forums, and semi-structured interviews, the thesis explores how the child’s right to protection from drugs under Article 33 of the CRC has been understood, and what the relationship has been between the CRC and the UN drug control conventions. Adopting a critical approach to child rights studies, it offers a number of additions to the growing literature on international law and drug control:A detailed history of the parallel drafting of the international drug control and child rights legal regimes in the twentieth century, tracing their substantive detachment over time until their political convergence to the height of the ‘war on drugs’ in the late 1980s;A discussion of the CRC and the UN drugs conventions set against the background of the fragmentation of international law, highlighting a degree of surface level coherence yet important inconsistencies of background theory and ethos;An analysis of contemporary debates among scholars, activists, States and UN mechanisms on the relationship between human rights, child rights and drug control, demonstrating the potential for fragmentation playing out in real-world contentions;A comprehensive review and critique of the periodic reporting process to the Committee on the Rights of the Child from 1993-2015 through the theoretical lens of ‘structural bias’, showing that while the CRC may offer an alternative legal lens through which to approach drug policy, the process has tended to lean in favour of a restrictive and often punitive status quo.
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- Barrett, Damon, et al.
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Human rights and tobacco control: lessons from illicit drugs
- 2020
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Ingår i: Human Rights and Tobacco Control. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 978 1 78897 481 3
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This contribution is a reflection on human rights and tobacco control set against the endgame of a ‘drug free world’. The elimination of illicit drugs has long been an international policy imperative, sometimes justified on human rights grounds. But the human rights costs of this endgame in terms of negative outcomes are now apparent. Meanwhile, a compelling human rights case for stronger tobacco control has been well made. It is easy, moreover, to see the health benefits of a ‘tobacco free world’ and a relatively straightforward step to argue that such a goal helps realise the right to health. But are we sure that pursuit of a tobacco free world aligns with human rights given the clear distance between human rights and the pursuit of a ‘drug free world’? Have we properly tried to anticipate any human rights costs associated with tobacco control strategies and worked to mitigate them? In asking such questions we do not suggest that tobacco control advocates envisage ‘war on drugs’ methods or that tobacco control and drug control are the same. One is a punitive suppression regime with a supply side focus, while the other is a broader regulatory framework more weighted to the demand side. But there are similarities and areas of crossover with important human rights dimensions, including issues of addiction, restrictions on individual liberties, linkages with broader social policy, controversies around harm reduction, and enforcement responses to illicit markets. As tobacco control moves towards stricter controls (including beyond the requirements of the FCTC in national contexts), as endgame strategies are pursued, and as illicit tobacco becomes a greater focus, the resemblances to drug control may become closer.
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