{"disclaimer":"Automatically generated transcript — may contain errors. Not an official United Nations record.","video":{"id":"k1w/k1wfcsslrj","kaltura_id":"1_wfcsslrj","title":"Consultations 3rd Part - 5th Session IIEM on Law Enforcement","clean_title":"Consultations 3rd Part - 5th Session IIEM on Law Enforcement","url":"https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1w/k1wfcsslrj","date":"2026-03-25T00:00:00.000Z","scheduled_time":"2026-03-25T09:00:00.000Z","status":"finished","duration":"02:33:50","category":"Human Rights Council","body":null,"event_code":null,"event_type":null,"session_number":null,"pv_symbol":null,"pv_part":null,"slug":"asset/k1w/k1wfcsslrj"},"metadata":{"summary":"During its 5th session, the Expert Mechanism will hold public in-person consultations on systemic racism against Africans and people of African descent in the enforcement of drug laws and policies. The key observations and recommendations emanating from the consultations will inform the Expert Mechanism's 5th annual report to be presented to the 63rd session of the Human Rights Council.","description":"Discussion 3 continued: Key Impacts on the Human Rights of Africans and People of African Descent in Drug-Related Contexts Purpose:To deepen understanding of the impact of drug law and policy enforcement on the enjoyment of human rights of Africans and people of African descent, including the right to health and the right to a life free from violence.Key Questions:Health harms: How do punitive drug enforcement practices impact Africans and people of African descent access to harm reduction services, treatment, and the right to health?Criminalization and institutional violence: How does drug criminalization expose Africans and people of African descent to violence, trauma, family disruption, and unsafe working or living conditions?Community level impacts: How do these policing practices shape everyday life for Africans and people of African descent communities?Gendered impacts: What distinct impacts, including specific forms of structural and institutional violence, do African women and people of African descent women face?Speakers:Anthony Ukam, Regional Coordinator, African Tales Southeast AsiaCorina Giacomello, Professor, University of Chiapas, Institute of Judicial StudiesKarina Ramírez, Human Rights Defender, Fundación Círculo de Estudios Culturales y PolíticosNiamh Eastwood, Executive Director, Release UKTracie Keesee, EMLER expertVíctor Rodríguez Rescia, EMLER expertDiscussion 4: Structural, Historical, and Institutional Drivers of Racial Discrimination in Drug Enforcement Purpose:To understand the root causes and underlying factors for Africans and people of African descent facing disproportionate and racialized harms across the drug law and policy enforcement.Key Questions:Legacies of enslavement and colonialism: How have legacies of enslavement and colonialism and racialized narratives around drugs created the conditions for systemic over policing and criminalization of Africans and people of African descent, constructing them as a threat to justify state-centric security models over human security?Global and national drug control frameworks: How do existing drug control conventions and national laws or policies such as the so-called 'war on drugs' – and their implementation - reinforce patterns that disproportionately impact Africans and people of African descent?Institutional cultures & logics of violence: How do policing cultures, prosecutorial logics, quota systems, risk tools, and political pressures reproduce racial bias against Africans and people of African descent in drug cases?Stigma & criminalization: How do harmful racial stereotypes, prejudice and bias against Africans and people of African descent influence enforcement choices and public narratives?Compounded structural inequities: How do gender, poverty, migration status, health and other disparities intersect with race or ethnic origin to sustain or amplify discriminatory patterns?Speakers:Adeola Young, Founder, Director, GroundationKojo Koram, Professor of Law and History, Loughborough UniversityKgalema Motlanthe, Member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy (GCDP) and the Eastern and Southern Africa Commission on Drugs (ESACD)Tracie Keesee, EMLER expertVíctor Rodríguez Rescia, EMLER expert","categories":["Meetings & Events","Human Rights Council"],"geographic_subject":[],"subject_topical":["HUMAN RIGHTS","EQUALITY","JUSTICE","LAW ENFORCEMENT"],"corporate_name":["OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - OHCHR"],"speaker_affiliation":[],"related_documents":[]},"transcript":null,"message":"No transcript available"}