Today's guest on Moments of Clarity is Damon Barrett. Damon has been working on issues related to health and human rights for over 15 years, focusing mostly on drugs and harm reduction. He is a senior lecturer at the School of Global Studies, and a researcher at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is also a co-Director of the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy, which he co-founded in 2009. 

Prior to entering academia Damon was Deputy Director of Harm Reduction International, based in London. His most recent book, Child Rights and Drug Control in International Law was published by Brill/Martinus Nijhoff in 2020.    Since 2016 Damon has been part of the core drafting team for the International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Policy. The project has aimed to apply decades of developments in human rights law to global drug control.  

Links:


https://brill.com/display/title/55876

www.humanrights-drugpolicy.org

https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/damonbarrett

Damon Barrett: Child rights in global drug policy: From justification to accountability - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibwDHhFcoxE

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/damon-barrett/

Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy - https://twitter.com/hrdp2

Time Stamps

0:00 - 23:51 Introduction with Matt and Toby

23:52 - 48:30  Part 1 with Damon Barrett

48:31 - 82:35  Part 2 with Damon Barrett

82:36 - 83:49 Outro  

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