The HCLU, together with Mito, a Budapest-based communication agency, created an online computer game to educate the public about the consequences of the global war on drugs and raise awareness on the Count the Costs! campaign.
Youth Organisations for Drug Action (YODA) in cooperation with Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) have asked young people around the world about how current drug policies affect them and their communities, and what they think about them.
This report provides general conceptions of the global security challenges posed by violent armed groups; identifies the issues of greatest import to scholars studying the phenomenon; and emphasises the need for the U.S. Government to understand variations in the challenges it faces from enemies.
Articles in this volume address coerced drug treatment, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the INCB and ayahuasca, and the death penalty for drug in China.
At different points in history, drug production, use and supply have all been presented as threats to security whether human, national or international security.
During the 2012 CND, the US Drug Czar discussed the need for national and global drug policy reform to end over-reliance on punishment and focus on prevention and treatment programmes.
The HCLU is producing seven thematic movies on the seven major costs of the war on drugs. This film features one of them - the promotion of stigma and discrimination.
Latin American leaders have said recently that the West’s "war on drugs" has failed, and a new book from the International Institute for Strategic Studies agrees. At this week’s launch of Drugs, Insecurity and Failed States: The Problems of Prohibition, IISS expert and former MI6 deputy director...
This note provides an overview of human rights and international law concerns raised by the 2011 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board.
UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov today met Lamberto Zannier, Secretary-General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), to discuss a joint action plan that will see the two organizations cooperate in tackling organized crime and illicit drugs.
The European Drug Prevention Prize is awarded every two years to three drug prevention projects that fully involve young people, either in the development and implementation of activities, the decision-making, the project management and/or the evaluation.
A new report by UNODC ranks amphetamine-type stimulants as the world's second most widely used type of drug after cannabis. Offering the most comprehensive and current analysis of the situation, the 2011 Global ATS Assessment notes that the expansion of the drug's trade and the high criminal...
This series of videos provides a comprehensive overview of the main discussions that took place at the 2011 International Harm Reduction Conference in Beirut, Lebanon.
This is the first edition of the International Journal on Human rights and Drug Policy, the only international peer reviewed law journal focusing exclusively on human rights and drug policy.
On Wednesday 27th April, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) held elections in New York for the International Narcotics Control Board for a five-year term (2012-2017). The two candidates elected from among the World Health Organisation candidates are Professor Hamid Ghodse and Wayne Hall.
Injecting drug use and the growing HIV epidemic in the Middle East and North Africa were the focus of the International Harm Reduction Conference 2011 that took place in Beirut, Lebanon from 3-7 April 2011. The region is slowly increasing availability of harm reduction programmes although...
The three resolutions adopted at this year's CND on 'civil society inclusion', 'promoting rehabilitation and reintegration-oriented strategies' and 'improving access to controlled substances for medical and scientific purposes' provide a great opportunity to take forward the Declaration and...
