NAACP Joins Call To End War On Drugs. The NAACP has just joined the list of prominent organizations and individuals calling for a major paradigm shift away from the failed and punitive "War On Drugs" and toward a health-based approach with a historic resolution passed Tuesday at the organization's national conference in Los Angeles.
"Today the NAACP has taken a major step towards equity, justice, and effective law enforcement," said Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP. "These flawed drug policies that have been mostly enforced in African American communities must be stopped and replaced with evidence-based practices that address the root causes of drug use and abuse in America. " Not For Sale: End Human Trafficking and Slavery. Shrinking the Global Water Crisis. NOTE: This is a guest post from Julia D., Content Manager for Hydros.
The global water crisis is a worldwide emergency — more than one billion people lack access to clean water. However, numbers like this can overwhelm us. When we hear that one billion people desperately need water, we can sometimes start seeing these people as mere statistics, instead of as people just like us who are in pain.