As the ECOSOC adopts the report of the 52nd CND, IDPC Chair, Mike Trace addresses the plenary to highlight remaining difficult questions for international drug policy and UN system-wide coherence.
The main messages of this conference were decriminalisation of drug users, proportional sentencing and a focus on harm reduction policies and programmes.
A legislative proposal to decriminalize the possession of small quantities of drugs for personal consumption will be discussed in Argentina, the latest Latin American country to explore more effective and humane drug policy.
The Congress drew thousands of people together for five days of discussion around the AIDS response in the Pacific and across Asia. A wide range of issues and contexts for the AIDS epidemic in these regions was discussed including mobility and migration, injecting drug use, human rights as well as gender.
WOLA recently sent a letter to Administration officials expressing concern about the pending agreement between the US and Colombia over the U.S. military’s expanded use of military facilities in that country.