IDPC has started a drug policy mapping project across 10 countries in Asia to gain a better understanding of drug policy making in the region.

The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) seeks an entry-level administrative staff person to work with program staff. The deadline for application is 26th of June, 2013.

President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill to introduces drug tests for school children and that could send children to rehabilitation centres if they test positive.

Injection drug use is known to play a major role in HCV transmission. The Action Plan for the Prevention, Care, and Treatment of Viral Hepatitis seeks to raise awareness and address this problem.

Amnesty International denounces that the Mexican government is not doing enough to investigate the disappearances of thousands of people.

Students for Sensible Drug Policy UK (SSDP) will participate in the Support. Don't Punish Global Day of Action on Wednesday 26th June 2013, that will take place in more than 20 cities, including London.

Youth RISE joined key global and regional youth organisations in Tunisia to develop a PACT for social change in the AIDS response.

HRW calls for the decriminalisation of drug use and proposes that governments should relyon non-penal regulatory and public health policies.

Sign the urgent petition calling on the American governments to heed the recommendations of the new OAS reports on drug policy and to support individual countries to experiment with new strategies for curbing drug violence and crime.

This article by Cupihd examines the role of Mexico in drug policies reform in Latin America.

EHRN is working on a Regional Initiative Concept for Eastern Europe and Central Asia to show the regional experience exchanges.

As the 3.4% of inmates in provincial detention facilities in Quebec are infected with HIV and 18.5% by hepatitis C, this video calls for the introduction of harm reduction programmes in the prisons.

This open letter, signed by 54 organisations, call to the American governments to place the human rights at the centre of the debate on drug policy in the Americas.

The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre in Australia is reviewing the data on HIV in prisons to publish a review for the UNODC.

Despite increasing regional debate in Latin America on drug policy reforms, Brazil is at risk of sliding backwards and is poised to enact even harsher, rights-violating drug policies with the approval of new laws.

The Brazilian House of Representatives approved the Bill 7663/10 that provides for the compulsory drug treatment of people who use drugs.

Sign the petition that calls on European Union leaders and the European Commission to recommit to fighting HIV/AIDS in Europe and keep it as a priority.

User profiles of heroin in Serbia have changed since the 1970s. As they are now at the margins of society, they face serious health and social discrimination despite existing protective laws.

AIDS is perhaps the pre-eminent example of successful investment in health: as a result of investments in HIV, mortality from AIDS and the number of new infections have decreased worldwide by 25 per cent in just the past five years.

This page highlights the main media coverage related to the OAS reports on drug policy released on 17th May2013.