Update: We continued this discussion with a similarly-themed event in May, online-only under the auspices of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.

Dear friends,

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At the United Nations last month, we called for information-gathering to prepare future criminal prosecutions over the lethal US strikes on alleged "drug boats" in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Full footage of our side event at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, "Murder on the Land and the Sea: Extrajudicial Drug war Killings in the 21st Century," is available on our YouTube page, and below.

Speakers included Filipino journalist Carlos Conde, Colombia expert Diego Garcia-Devis of Open Society Foundations, Annie Shiel of the US-based Center for Civilians in Conflict, and our executive director David Borden, with Kat Murti of Students for Sensible Drug Policy moderating. We also had comments from Inez Feria of NoBox Transitions Foundation (Philippines); and were provided a letter from Spirit Cottle of St. Vincent and the Grenadines discussing the impact of the boat strikes on the region. Between in-person and online, the event had nearly 80 attendees.

Thanks for your interest in our work on drug policy and rule of law, in particular the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines drug war, and the criminal boat strikes (also extrajudicial killings) in Latin America by the Trump administration. There is more about this program online at https://stopthedrugwar.org/ruleoflaw.