On the Day of Action in Thailand, the 12D Network had prepared a letter to the Prime Minister, Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra, demanding that the government reform its drug control policies.
The Obama administration’s statement, 'A Drug Policy for the 21st Century', is accepting publicly that the decades of US harsh drug policies have been an expensive mistake.
Around 800 participants attended the conference from all around the world to share the latest experiences, developments and evidence on drug policy and harm reduction.
On 26th June, speakers from UNODC, the CND and other organisations referred to crack in the UN drug control regime at the launch of the 2013 World Drug Report.
It is the addiction that makes people suffer. Nobody is born evil and any one of us could be in this situation. Shouldn’t we ask ourselves why we didn’t provide interventions much earlier, at the time they needed them most?
Civil society organisations played a particularly important role at this year’s forty-third regular session of the OAS General Assembly by promoting a public health, harm reduction, and human rights approach to drug policies.
This year’s annual General Assembly meeting of the OAS, which brings together the hemisphere’s foreign ministers, marked a milestone in the Latin American drug policy debate.
Since the INCB continually refuses to address human rights issues, Stephen Lewis’ accusation that Russian President Vladimir Putin should be indicted for crimes against humanity may not be listened.