Catherine Cook

Långt fler människor dör av överdoser i Sverige än i de flesta andra EU-länder. Familjer har slagits i spillror och tusentals människor har mist livet efter att ha förvägrats smittförebyggande insatser, överdoshävande läkemedel, livräddande läkemedelsassisterad behandling, värdig vård och sociala insatser.Den svenska narkotikapolitiken, som kritiserats av FN för att kränka mänskliga rättigheter, har länge gått stick i stäv med forskning, beprövad erfarenhet och med WHO:s riktlinjer. Nödvändiga och brådskande förändringar möter fortsatt hårt motstånd från beslutsfattare inom politiken, myndigheter och vården.I den här antologin gör brukare, anhöriga, politiker och experter upp med svenska dogmer. Men de pekar också ut en annan möjlig väg, baserad på pragmatism, humanism och värdighet.

Stolen Youth is the first book to explore Israel's incarceration of Palestinian children. Based on first-hand information from international human rights groups and NGO workers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it also features interviews with children who have been imprisoned. The result is a disturbing and often shocking account of the abuses that are being carried out by Israel. The book presents a critical analysis of the international legal framework and the UN system, arguing that a major failure of these instuitutions is their appeal to neutrality while ignoring the reality of power. The book attempts to address the inadequacy of these institutions by placing the issue of Palestinian child prisoners within the framework of Israeli strategy and the overall system of control. Stolen Youth outlines Israel's system of institutionalized discrimination and state torture, challenges the legitimacy of Israel's 'security' argument, and argues that Israel's treatment of Palestinian detainees forms one pillar of a policy designed to quash resistance to the occupation.

Stolen Youth is the first book to explore Israel's incarceration of Palestinian children. Based on first-hand information from international human rights groups and NGO workers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it also features interviews with children who have been imprisoned. The result is a disturbing and often shocking account of the abuses that are being carried out by Israel. The book presents a critical analysis of the international legal framework and the UN system, arguing that a major failure of these instuitutions is their appeal to neutrality while ignoring the reality of power. The book attempts to address the inadequacy of these institutions by placing the issue of Palestinian child prisoners within the framework of Israeli strategy and the overall system of control. Stolen Youth outlines Israel's system of institutionalized discrimination and state torture, challenges the legitimacy of Israel's 'security' argument, and argues that Israel's treatment of Palestinian detainees forms one pillar of a policy designed to quash resistance to the occupation.