On 25 October at 6PM at SEA Junction, Palani Narayanan, Senior Advisor for Drug Use and Community Responses at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), will give a public talk to make the case for a reverse of punitive drug policies in Southeast Asia. He will argue that the war on drugs has failed in every corner of the world and is also failing in the region at the cost of its people.
Photo by Rosalia Sciortino, Kanyawee Seedabut and Tipakson Manpati
Event poster
SEA Junction director gave anintroduction for the event
and the speaker
Palani Narayanan, an internationalharm reduction expert was
ready to start the talk
The talk started
The speaker introduced aboutdecriminalization of drugs for
personal use and possession
International convention on drugs
World Drug Report – UNODC
War on drugs
Unintended consequencesfrom the war on drugs
The current results of war on drugs“The unintended consequences”
Why should you care? The humanrights of people using drugs
Participants were focusing onthe talk
A participant asked a question
Another question
The speaker responded toquestions
A participant shared his thoughtsabout legalization on drugs
Another question raised
The speaker showed a newpiece on Thailand was about
to legalize marijuana
Final response from the speaker
SEA Junction director gave theevent poster to the speaker