A training was organised to ensure the full understanding access to anti-retroviral therapy for clients of the Balinese NGO Yakeba, to break existing stereotypes about limitations for outreach workers of harm reduction programme in their involvement into the ‘care and treatment field’.
The UN Human Rights Committee's calls in 2013 for Indonesia to stop executing prisoners for drug-related crimes did not deter Indonesia's actions which have been classified as an E grade, meaning that their actions go against the committee's recommendations.
The director-general of the Corrections Department in Thailand has said that the government needs to amend laws and address the increasing number of incarcerated women of which a high number are related to suppressive drug policies in order to adhere to the UN's Bangkok rules.
The Congressional Health Committee in Chile have approved a bill that would legalise the cultivation of marijuana for private recreational or medicinal use, opening up the debate in the socially conservative country.
The Drug Reporter video advocacy team attended the 58th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the largest drug policy gathering in the world and have shared some great videos from the day.
Alexei Kurmanayevsky, former staff member at the Vershina Kazan rehabilitation clinic in Russia, recounts how he was harassed and fired because of his views on substitution therapy.
On 7th April, the French Parliament (Assemblée nationale) adopted the experimentation of safe injection rooms for a period of a maximum of six years, after more than four hours of lively debates between the left wing party and the right wing, UMP.
The main aim of the workshop was to develop the capacity of civil society organisations in the region on issues related to drug policy, drug prevention and treatment, harm reduction, security and governance, and effective advocacy.
The Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) programme in Belltown has reduced criminal-recidivism rates by up to 60 percent for the poor, chronically homeless, low-level drug dealers, users and sex workers it was designed to help.
With an eye to UNGASS 2016, the United Nations University is convening a panel discussion to consider where common ground might be found on public health issues.
