Harm Reduction International Conference 2025

The Harm Reduction International Conference 2025 (HR25) will be held in Bogotá, Colombia on 27-30 April 2025.

In October 2023, Colombia’s new government announced a bold new drug policy that broke away from the war on drugs. It focussed on opportunity and justice.

Among other things the new policy looked to: prevent deforestation linked to drug trafficking; help transition small farmers to the legal economy; and tackle drug use with a focus on public health and human rights.

The Harm Reduction International Conference is going to Colombia to support a country that is taking the leap towards a new paradigm and to learn from the country and region.

Programme

The programme for HR25 is now available.

IDPC Secretariat sessions

MONDAY, 28 April - 16:30

Concurrent 11: Advocacy in Action: Driving Drug Policy Reform

Resourcing Grassroots Organising Towards Reform: An 11-Year Evaluation of the Support. Don’t Punish Campaign / Juan Fernández Ochoa

WEDNESDAY, 30 April - 14:30

Concurrent 27: Decriminalisation: Promoting, Improving and Defending Reforms

In Defence of Decriminalisation: What Our Advocacy Successes and Failures Tell Us / Ann Fordham