The Global Partnership on Drug Policies and Development reflects on ten years of the Brandenburg Forum and its contribution to more humane, development-oriented, evidence-based and rights-affirming drug policies.
Gilmour et al. find no statistically observable impact of Oregon’s drug decriminalisation policy on opioid overdose mortality, challenging claims that the reform caused the state’s rise in deaths.
IDPC discusses the Commission's post-consensus 'new normal' and how it creates opportunities for progress on harm reduction and reform amid growing divisions and threats to rights.
IDPC, CELS, HRI and WOLA warn that conflating drug trafficking with terrorism enables unlawful military action, weakens human rights protections and restricts civil society space.
The UNSG reviews progress towards realising the commitments set out in the 2021 Political Declaration and outlines the strategic directions for the world to achieve its goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
NAPUD explains how people who use drugs can identify their priorities and advocate for their inclusion in Global Fund Grant Cycle 8 funding requests and budgets.
UNAIDS warns that funding disruptions, punitive laws and attacks on human rights are placing decades of progress against HIV at risk, while setting out a path towards sustainable, country-owned and community-led responses.
Civil society and community networks call for the Political Declaration to protect community leadership, advance decriminalisation, sustainably finance harm reduction and place human rights at the centre.
Bridge, Nougier and Barrett reflect on the fractures exposed at the 69th session of the CND and argue that the collapse of consensus is creating new space for harm reduction, human rights and reform.
TNI explores viable ways to safeguard the genetic resources, cultural heritage and Indigenous knowledge of the coca leaf, as well as to protect legal markets from risks of misappropriation, biopiracy and corporate capture.
The Working Group on Women and Incarceration in Latin America analyses how the fight against organised crime affects women in contact with prison systems, as well as their families and children.
