This UNU and Brookings panel discussion will discuss findings from a comparative evaluation of the effectiveness and costs of international counter-narcotics policies and approaches for reform.
Open Society Foundations New York, 224 West 57th Street, NY 10019, New York, USA
8 September 2015 - 8 September 2015
The event, which will provide the international comparative context for De Braços Abertos, will also include a short film interviewing cracolândia residents in Rio de Janeiro.
The conference is arranged by SERAF, City of Bergen, the Norwegian Directorate of Health and the Research Council of Norway in collaboration with proLAR, Bergen Clinics, Helse Bergen, SIRUS and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
International Overdose Awareness Day aims to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the stigma of a drug-related death. It also acknowledges the grief felt by families and friends remembering those who have met with death or permanent injury as a result of drug overdose.
The Philippines "Conversations with Andrew Tatarsky" are three public events spanning four days, introducing a broader approach to Harm Reduction, both institutionally, and in our homes and everyday lives. The Adi Guna Nusantara Foundation is also organizing workshops in Indonesia.
This conference brings together powerful leaders from across the country who are formerly incarcerated women, family members to discuss how to advocate for an end of the over-incarceration of people of colour (in particular women) in the United States.
This seminar seeks to examine in detail the impact of the validity of human rights that prohibition policies enforce and the role they have today questioning some Latin American countries in the consequences of the "war on drugs" .
This course will provide students with the core legal foundations of human rights and drug control, present tools to undertake research and will introduce the political landscape of policy reform in the lead up to the UNGASS and beyond.
This two-week summer school in Lisbon focuses on the drugs problem in Europe and beyond involving Scientific Experts from the EMCDDA and guest lecturers from European Universities.