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Global Commission on Drug Policy’s Louise Arbour —Photo from the UN GENEVA, Switzerland — International advocates of drug policy reform urged the government to ensure that former President Rodrigo Duterte’s admission of full responsibility for his war on drugs is kept to “genuine accountability, not just political theater.” “Performative gestures are insufficient—justice requires substantive follow-through,” said Louise Arbour, a member of the UK-based Global Commission on Drug Policy (GCDP) and also a member of the advisory board of The Coalition for the International Criminal Court. In 1996, she was chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague and successfully secured the conviction of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity. Milosevic died in detention at a Dutch jail in 2020 while undergoing trial by the International Court of Justice. READ: Duterte takes ‘full legal, moral responsibility’ for drug war Arbour, a former justice of the Canadian Supreme Court, said of the Philippine war on drugs that “the congressional hearings should result in concrete actions: thorough investigations, prosecutions and convictions for those responsible for extrajudicial killings, with reparations for victims, including children and youth.” Duterte, under oath before congressional investigations in November, took full responsibility for the actions of police officers who enforced his antidrugs crackdown that resulted in thousands of killings and extrajudicial executions. Arbour said the congressional probe, alongside the Drug Policy Summit last July, must follow through with actual drug policy reform and amendment of the obsolete and punitive drug law in the Philippines that allows gross human rights violations and cruel punishments. “Lawmakers, with the help of the Department of Justice and Department of Health, must consider and include the recommendations and outputs from the Summit, including those made by children and young people, such as removing the arbitrary listing of alleged drug suspects via the Drug Watch List,” she said. She urged lawmakers to investigate the disproportionate targeting of vulnerable communities, especially people in impoverished areas, including children in urban poor communities and those living on the streets. “A comprehensive reform grounded in human rights, public health, and harm reduction principles will pave the way for a more just and effective drug policy in the Philippines,” Arbour said. The statements of Arbour were in reply to emailed questions as the GCDP released last Dec. 5, its report, “Beyond Punishment: From Criminal Justice Responses to Drug Policy Reform,” that called for a re-evaluation of the global drug responses due to rising drug overdose deaths, increased violence, toxic drug supplies and strained criminal justice systems. Comprising of 28 commissioners including 15 former heads of state and prominent political, economic and cultural leaders, the GDCP promotes drug policies that prioritize public health, human rights and social justice, and advocates for a drug policy that shifts from prohibition to human rights and evidence-based approaches. The GCDP report highlights the Philippines’ failure of the war on drugs where, as of September 2022, there were 81,000 people in pretrial detention for drug offenses, accounting for 90 percent of all those detained in Bureau of Jail Management and Penology facilities for drug crimes. “This situation not only violates the prohibition of arbitrary detention, but also undermines the human right to a fair trial, exposing arrested individuals to further human rights violations and abuses, including torture and ill-treatment,” the report stated. “In the Philippines, thousands of incarcerated individuals share overcrowded cells, with no room to sleep, inadequate sanitation and limited access to basic needs such as food and medicines,” said the report, stressing that the practice of mandatory pretrial detention for certain drug offenses, such as personal use and possession, prevents judicial assessments and can delay periodic reviews of detention. Former New Zealand Prime Minister and current GCDP chair Helen Clark said: “The ‘war on drugs’ has led to skyrocketing incarceration rates, rising overdose deaths and ongoing human rights violations.” Subscribe to our daily newsletter By providing an email address. I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy . She said the report presents clear evidence that a harm reduction approach to drug use works, as it is a public health necessity, not a moral stance. “It’s time for a global shift toward drug policies that respect public health and human rights.” —Contributed‘The extraordinary has become the ordinary in Saudi Arabia,’ says Middle East expertHow do you follow up the creation of one of the biggest games of all time? If you're Brendan Greene, aka PlayerUnknown, it's by building something even bigger. Greene, creator of PUBG, founded a studio called PlayerUnknown Productions where he and his team have been working on a massively multiplayer sandbox called Artemis : a digital world the size of an actual planet. Today on the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted , Greene revealed that he's ready to let players get some hands-on time with the engine powering that planet by releasing Preface: Undiscovered World. Preface is a tech demo of the engine the studio is using to build Artemis, which generates planets "using machine learning technology [and] natural Earth data to generate these worlds from latent space," Greene said. Want to see a planet-sized planet on your own desktop? You can download Preface: Undiscovered World on Steam and play with it for free right now. “In Preface, users can witness an Earth-scale world generated in real-time by our machine learning agents directly on their GPU," Greene said, along with "some simple systems to allow you to explore it." I haven't had the chance to play with Preface myself yet, but I've watched Greene demonstrate early builds of it for me twice now: once at GDC in 2023, and this year when I visited PlayerUnknown Productions back in July . I was impressed both times as the engine first generated a planet viewable from outer space, then formed terrain, mountains, valleys, trees, and rocks when Greene zoomed into the surface from orbit. After those two teases, I'm excited to finally get my hands on the planet builder myself and take it for a spin. Greene said the creation of Artemis "is going to be a five or 10 year journey," and in July he told me the ultimate goal is to build "not just a game engine, [but a] world engine, or a digital place engine. But really, it's building a holodeck, building a space that you can create whatever experiences you want." Preface wasn't the only announcement Greene had at the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted today. He also announced that Prologue, the open world survival game PlayerUnknown Productions is working on, will enter early access on Steam next year. You can read more about Prologue here . The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
CI Financial Corp. ( NYSE:CIXXF – Get Free Report )’s share price gapped up before the market opened on Friday . The stock had previously closed at $19.40, but opened at $21.38. CI Financial shares last traded at $21.38, with a volume of 120 shares. Analysts Set New Price Targets CIXXF has been the topic of a number of recent analyst reports. TD Securities downgraded shares of CI Financial from a “strong-buy” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a report on Wednesday, November 27th. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods cut CI Financial from a “moderate buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, November 25th. View Our Latest Stock Analysis on CIXXF CI Financial Price Performance CI Financial Cuts Dividend The business also recently disclosed a dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, January 15th. Investors of record on Wednesday, January 1st will be given a dividend of $0.1457 per share. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, December 31st. This represents a yield of 2.71%. CI Financial’s payout ratio is -178.79%. About CI Financial ( Get Free Report ) CI Financial Corp. is a publicly owned asset management holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the firm manages separate client focused equity, fixed income, and alternative investments portfolios. It also manages mutual funds, hedge funds, and fund of funds for its clients through its subsidiaries. Further Reading Receive News & Ratings for CI Financial Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for CI Financial and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Institutional investors upbeat on outlook
NEW YORK (AP) — Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship on Monday after its governing body agreed to loosen a dress code that got him fined and denied a late-round game in another tournament for refusing to change out of jeans . Lamenting the contretemps, International Chess Federation President Arkady Dvorkovich said in a statement Sunday that he'd let World Blitz Championship tournament officials consider allowing “appropriate jeans” with a jacket, and other “elegant minor deviations” from the dress code. He said Carlsen's stand — which culminated in his quitting the tournament Friday — highlighted a need for more discussion “to ensure that our rules and their application reflect the evolving nature of chess as a global and accessible sport.” Carlsen, meanwhile, said in a video posted Sunday on social media that he would play — and wear jeans — in the World Blitz Championship when it begins Monday. “I think the situation was badly mishandled on their side,” the 34-year-old Norwegian grandmaster said. But he added that he loves playing blitz — a fast-paced form of chess — and wanted fans to be able to watch, and that he was encouraged by his discussions with the federation after Friday's showdown. “I think we sort of all want the same thing,” he suggested in the video on his Take Take Take chess app’s YouTube channel. “We want the players to be comfortable, sure, but also relatively presentable.” The events began when Carlsen wore jeans and a sportcoat Friday to the Rapid World Championship, which is separate from but held in conjunction with the blitz event. The chess federation said Friday that longstanding rules prohibit jeans at those tournaments, and players are lodged nearby to make sartorial switch-ups easy if needed. An official fined Carlsen $200 and asked him to change pants, but he refused and wasn't paired for a ninth-round game, the federation said at the time. The organization noted that another grandmaster, Ian Nepomniachtchi, was fined earlier in the day for wearing sports shoes, changed and continued to play. Carlsen has said that he offered to wear something else the next day, but officials were unyielding. He said “it became a bit of a matter of principle,” so he quit the rapid and blitz championships. In the video posted Sunday, he questioned whether he had indeed broken a rule and said changing clothes would have needlessly interrupted his concentration between games. He called the punishment “unbelievably harsh.” “Of course, I could have changed. Obviously, I didn’t want to,” he said, and “I stand by that.”Secret Behind Large 'Mystery' Fireball Sighting Over US Skies REVEALEDGlobal Commission on Drug Policy’s Louise Arbour —Photo from the UN GENEVA, Switzerland — International advocates of drug policy reform urged the government to ensure that former President Rodrigo Duterte’s admission of full responsibility for his war on drugs is kept to “genuine accountability, not just political theater.” “Performative gestures are insufficient—justice requires substantive follow-through,” said Louise Arbour, a member of the UK-based Global Commission on Drug Policy (GCDP) and also a member of the advisory board of The Coalition for the International Criminal Court. In 1996, she was chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague and successfully secured the conviction of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic for crimes against humanity. Milosevic died in detention at a Dutch jail in 2020 while undergoing trial by the International Court of Justice. READ: Duterte takes ‘full legal, moral responsibility’ for drug war Arbour, a former justice of the Canadian Supreme Court, said of the Philippine war on drugs that “the congressional hearings should result in concrete actions: thorough investigations, prosecutions and convictions for those responsible for extrajudicial killings, with reparations for victims, including children and youth.” Duterte, under oath before congressional investigations in November, took full responsibility for the actions of police officers who enforced his antidrugs crackdown that resulted in thousands of killings and extrajudicial executions. Arbour said the congressional probe, alongside the Drug Policy Summit last July, must follow through with actual drug policy reform and amendment of the obsolete and punitive drug law in the Philippines that allows gross human rights violations and cruel punishments. “Lawmakers, with the help of the Department of Justice and Department of Health, must consider and include the recommendations and outputs from the Summit, including those made by children and young people, such as removing the arbitrary listing of alleged drug suspects via the Drug Watch List,” she said. She urged lawmakers to investigate the disproportionate targeting of vulnerable communities, especially people in impoverished areas, including children in urban poor communities and those living on the streets. “A comprehensive reform grounded in human rights, public health, and harm reduction principles will pave the way for a more just and effective drug policy in the Philippines,” Arbour said. The statements of Arbour were in reply to emailed questions as the GCDP released last Dec. 5, its report, “Beyond Punishment: From Criminal Justice Responses to Drug Policy Reform,” that called for a re-evaluation of the global drug responses due to rising drug overdose deaths, increased violence, toxic drug supplies and strained criminal justice systems. Comprising of 28 commissioners including 15 former heads of state and prominent political, economic and cultural leaders, the GDCP promotes drug policies that prioritize public health, human rights and social justice, and advocates for a drug policy that shifts from prohibition to human rights and evidence-based approaches. The GCDP report highlights the Philippines’ failure of the war on drugs where, as of September 2022, there were 81,000 people in pretrial detention for drug offenses, accounting for 90 percent of all those detained in Bureau of Jail Management and Penology facilities for drug crimes. “This situation not only violates the prohibition of arbitrary detention, but also undermines the human right to a fair trial, exposing arrested individuals to further human rights violations and abuses, including torture and ill-treatment,” the report stated. “In the Philippines, thousands of incarcerated individuals share overcrowded cells, with no room to sleep, inadequate sanitation and limited access to basic needs such as food and medicines,” said the report, stressing that the practice of mandatory pretrial detention for certain drug offenses, such as personal use and possession, prevents judicial assessments and can delay periodic reviews of detention. Former New Zealand Prime Minister and current GCDP chair Helen Clark said: “The ‘war on drugs’ has led to skyrocketing incarceration rates, rising overdose deaths and ongoing human rights violations.” Subscribe to our daily newsletter By providing an email address. I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy . She said the report presents clear evidence that a harm reduction approach to drug use works, as it is a public health necessity, not a moral stance. “It’s time for a global shift toward drug policies that respect public health and human rights.” —ContributedCox Enterprises Nearing One-Third of its Ambitious Goal to Empower 34 Million People to Live More Prosperous Lives by 2034
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