Three Years on; Finally, the Global Voices Support Don't Punish are Taking the Street in Singapore!

"Singapore would stick with its approach until there is evidence that a different model works better;" Singapore Government; Public Statement on 26th April, 2016

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A Bolder Steps; Engage to Participate as the Local Action Partner of the Global Voices Support Don't Punish Global Movement.

In the mid-summer of 2017, the local non-profit drug-based movement, known as Awaken Resistance, has undertaken to engage in maneuvered through the bolder steps capacity building engagement, by bridging the gaps to foster and established the collective rapport by participating to engage as the national/local community-based led movement befriended local action partner, including the appointed focal point representative entity for the Global Voices Days of Action #SupportDontPunish, Global Movement.

By engaging in maneuvered ahead to joined other global activist, participates from the dozen of cities all over the world, and to organised for these years local action, global voices upcoming community event, generate to serves our undying envisioned aims in making the changes against the difference social change adversity challenges as well as the difference fundamental framework mechanism in addressing against the national domestic drugs preventative policy approach. Continues, to further showcase and displayed, upon our third consecutive running years, in enabling us to participates in maintaining our community building rapport as the recognize local action partner for the 2019 #SupportDontPunish global voices campaign.

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Let's Head Down to Take the Street of Singapore; Mobilizing in Spreading for the Local Call of Action That Urges an Ends on Our National Domestic 'Wars on Drugs'

Thus, notably we are fully aware upon the grievous risk of choices, by undertaking the decision-making, to established Awaken Resistance, of a community led drugs-based movement to be set-up under the work-place resident of a country that enhance to underscore through the patriarchy political ideologies of a De-Facto democratic quasi-legislative governance legal systems. Nevertheless, it didn't stop us, in leading the movement to be fully developed, even though we are subjected discreetly in silent to be under Singapore subjugation governance that promulgated to introduce for the implementation of national domestic internal drugs administrative judicial legal system, underscores to impose the pragmatic approach of a punitive and harmful policy practices including to applied for an highly stringent surveillance against the prevalence key population group of people/community who use drugs and other drugs-related activity conducted within the island-shore city-state country.

Propagated further by the State abolitionist, in proclaiming to displayed a contradictory image of the national domestic social security rigorous effort, incited in justifying of having a success rate level, even though till now, there is no substantive quality of research case-study report to back the widely-spread mis-leading claim made by the State abolitionist. Proposing as the national domestic most logical and effective of a long-term key strategic approach, for past 47 years, Singapore key population group of people/community who us drugs continues to be under the governance of self-bias subjugation decision-making for notoriously opted out and not soften its drug policies, whilst, pushing back against calls from some global world nations that recommended for Singapore government to change its approach in dealing with drugs.

Based from our diverse on-ground personal experience, of having the direct harmful exposure affected and faces against the implication impact of our national domestic drugs administrative harmful policy practice. Enhance us to engage through the broader work critical opportunity to focused explicitly in addressing against the national domestic overlapping social injustice and disparity cross-setting segregation treatment affected and compounded daily within Singapore prevalence key population of the epidemiology drugs user community. Mobilizing further, to spread the key valuable global voices collective message; that it's time to support, and not punish people who use drugs and other non-violent drugs offender criminal offence.

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"The harms being caused by the war on drugs can no longer be ignored. We need more humane drug policies that support, and don’t punish, people who use drugs. It is time to leave behind harmful politics, ideologies and prejudices. "

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The Global Campaign; Background of Support Don't Punish Global Campaign

The Global Day of Action, is held annually on or around 26th of June, as it is also to marked the United Nation's International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drugs Trafficking - a day where some of the State country government typically undertaken to imposed in coordinating to drugs arrest and seizures. Moreover, during the past most of State government had even opted out by generating to held public executions or beatings drug offender.

However, under the United Nation's own admission, literally are legally identified that the global 'war on drugs' had failed to reduces against each national domestic drug-use activity, which even increases the high vulnerabilities chances in leading to a serious negative consequences - such as overdoses death, HIV and hepatitis C infections among people who use drugs, prison over-crowding, severe human rights violation, and an exacerbation stigma, marginalization, violence and corruption.

That promote to identified upon the underlying contradictory impression made by Singapore State abolitionist, that fuels further to promote and distribute upon the national domestic widely-spread mis-interpretation political ideologies believes, to cited that punitive drugs criminalizing law generates of having the psychological deterrent effects in reducing against any individual person from engaging or having direct influence to illicit drug-related activity.

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About the Campaign; 26th of June, of the Local Action, Global Voices of Support Don't Punish Global Campaign

"Support Don't Punish" is a global campaign, established through the joint-collaboration effort of global grassroots-centered initiative, calling each State country for a change into their national domestic existing drugs preventative policy laws, for the decriminalization against low-level and non-violent drugs offences, including to promote in support of harm reduction and drug policies that priorities public health and human rights.

The campaign seeks to put harm reduction on the political agenda by strengthening the mobilization capacity of affected communities and their allies, opening dialogue with policy makers, and raising awareness among the media and the public.

The Support Don’t Punish campaign aligns with the following key messages:

• The drug control system is broken and in need of reform

• People who use drugs should no longer be criminalised

• People involved in the drug trade at low levels, especially those involved for reasons of subsistence or coercion, should not face harsh or disproportionate punishments

• The death penalty should never be imposed for drug offences

• Drug policy should focus on health, well-being and harm reduction

• Drug policy budgets need re-balancing to ensure health and harm reduction-based responses are adequately financed.

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