Thailand has honoured the UN day against drug abuse and trafficking by burning seized drugs, but there's growing consensus on the failures of eradication.
The WHO and UN reaffirm their commitment to ending discrimination in healthcare settings, calling for, amongst others, decriminalisation of drug use and personal possession.
The United Nations Human Rights Council extended the term of Dr. Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions for three more years.
Duterte has explicitly approved violence that has led to thousands of extrajudicial executions, in the name of an anti-drug campaign. The number of deaths now exceeds those under the murderous rule of Ferdinand Marcos.
While governments world-wide celebrate the UN day against drugs and trafficking, most evidence shows that current drug control strategies have had little effect toward creating a "drug free world".