A letter in favour of the decriminalisation of people who use drugs was handed was handed to the Brazilian National Congress by more than 100 evangelical leaders.

Seven former ministers of justice in Brazil signed a manifest attesting the unconstitutionality of the criminalization of the penal repression of drug possession for personal use.

More than 100 people met to discuss the current law regulating drug policy in Brazil during the seminar “Health and drug policy: The civil police at the front of the debate”.

As part of the campaign's desire to transform the way that Brazilian public powers treat the drug issue, Viva Rio held a seminar for law enforcement officers at the Civil Police Academy Sylvio Earth, in Rio de Janeiro.

The international seminar, Health and Drug Policies: It’s Time to Change, hold on December 17th focussed, among others, on the need to integrate Health into the debate of drugs.

Led by the national campaign “Drug Law: It’s Time to Change”, the draft bill aiming to decriminalize illicit drug possession and cultivation for personal use was presented last week in the online debate forum, E-Democracia. Since then, the bill has brought forth a wave of online followers.

The campaign “Drug Law: it’s time to change” will collect 1 million signatures to present Brazil’s National Congress with a bill calling for more equitable and effective drug legislation in the country.

In this declaration, IDPC Members in Latin America call on UN agencies to make profound reforms to current drug policies.

Twenty five candidates, including advertising agencies and communication professionals from all across Brazil, signed up for a competition organized by Viva Rio to select the best idea for a campaign that could change the legislation on drug policies in the country.

The Case Study Database –Banco de Injustiças in Portuguese aims to promote a debate among legal professionals about the absence of basic constitutional principles in Brazil’s Drug Laws such as the right to health care, limits on the punitive power of the State and, above all, the democratic...

In this declaration, police officers from around the world reaffirm the continued need for tough enforcement against organised crime, money laundering and corruption, but call for more effective and constructive approaches with regard to drug use.

This article presents the challenges of responding to the illicit drug market in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, highlighting the characteristics and dynamics of the markets, the impacts of the current drug policy approach on the scale of the market, and its implications for the human rights and...

This high-level commission (co-chaired by 3 former presidents, and involving 18 members drawn from public life across Latin America), has been established to examine the development of drug problems in Latin America, and look for alternative policy approaches that are more effective in combating...