Ann Fordham (IDPC Executive Director) analyses the key takeaways and significance of the OHCHR's latest report, noting how its call for transformative change includes an unprecedented recommendation to consider the responsible regulation of illegal drug markets.
After seven years of service to the Board of Directors, IDPC bids farewell to outgoing member and harm reduction champion, Donald MacPherson; with Vicki Hanson and Smriti Rana ensuring continued leadership.
Defining criminal groups involved in the informal drug trade as 'terrorists' risks deepening prejudices and repressive state responses, rather than decreasing violence.
Campaigners are committed to building a mass movement of people mobilising through diverse strategies and tactics to reclaim power for our communities and bring the 'war on drugs' to its belated end.
The incoming Thai government coalition must put electoral politics aside and focus on enacting drug policies grounded in principles of social justice, harm reduction, and human rights.
Through participatory workshops, activists, policymakers and farmers collectively envisioned models of legal regulation for industrial hemp, medical and adult-use cannabis.
The latest Human Rights Council resolution on the human rights implications of drug policy represents the most ambitious and progressive resolution on the matter to date, and should influence the outcome of the upcoming 2024 mid-term review of the 2019 Ministerial Declaration.
The launch of the report brought together over 60 representatives from civil society, community networks and public authorities, prompting a discussion on the need to end rights-violating practices against people who use drugs.
