Since the 2003 US-led invasion, Iraq has witnessed a dramatic rise in the cultivatino and trafficking of drusg. Reports indicate that drug abuse is on the rise among Iraqi youth and that armed militias have musceld in on this lucrative trade. So how can Iraq combat this growing problem? Inside Iraq investigates.
This week, 101 East asks if a culture of impunity is embedded in Indonesia.
This week, 101 Eats asks if a culture of impunity is embedded in Indonesia.
Warning: Some images in this video are graphic. Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is calling for an investigation into “gross and systematic” human rights abuses in Kenya.Annan, who’s in Kenya trying to broker peace says clashes have now gone beyond election violence.Mohammed Adow reports from Nariobi.
It’s estimated around one hundred and twenty thousand Russians die each year from drug and alcohol abuse. Now Dmitry Medvedev – Vladimir Putin’s likley successor – has promised to tackle the problem if he’s elected persident on March 2nd.
But under Putin, Russia’s substance abuse victims have been largely ignored by an administration more keen on proomting its social achievements.
In the third of our series on the State of Russia, Jonah Hull reports from the city of Perm in the Ural Mountains about the problem claiming so many yonug lives.