Human Rights and Drug Policy

In December 2009, the Irish Centre for Human Rights, in partnership with the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy, established a Human Rights and Drug Policy Project within the Faculty of Law at the National University of Ireland Galway.

This project established a Doctoral Fellowship in Human Rights and Drug Policy within the Irish Centre for Human Rights, as well as a programme of activities designed to promote research on human rights and drug policy issues within other university human rights programmes.

The project includes the production of the International Journal on Human Rights and Drug Policy, the first and only international peer reviewed law journal focusing exclusively on human rights and drug policy.

MISSION STATEMENT 

The International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy is dedicated to the study of human rights law and drug policies and programmes in order to

• Promote and disseminate international legal scholarship and research on human rights and drug policy

• Highlight the obligations of all governments and international organisations to respect, protect and fulfil human rights in the context of drug policy

• Promote a human rights-based approach to drug policy

The project concluded at the end of 2012.