As the process of reviewing the 10-year achievements of the global drug control system continues, the IDPC has been synthesising the wide range of publications and analysis from its members into brief advocacy notes that summarise our positions on the key issues in this review.
This paper analyzes the roles played by women in criminal networks in Latin America, highlighting the ways in which gender relations and socio-economic factors shape the configuration of international drug trafficking networks and women’s participation.
This annual Progress Report offers information about the main activities implemented by IDPC during 2012 and 2013 and highlights our main achievements this year in terms of national and international advocacy, communications and publication of multilingual documentation.
This briefing paper explores the rationale behind aid distribution vis-à-vis counter-narcotics and emphasises some of the geopolitical reasoning often underpinning the delivery of aid packages.
The challenge for governments, civil society and citizens across the hemisphere is to use the OAS report as a tool for debating present drug policies and ultimately crafting effective and humane alternative approaches.
This report provides a summary of what was discussed – and to highlight what was not – at this year’s meeting, and offers some analysis of the key discussions, debates and emerging new trends.
After analysing the regional debate and national-level reforms, this report concludes with policy recommendations that should be undertaken to maintain the momentum and advance drug policy reforms in the region.
Focused deterrence strategies seek to minimise the most pernicious behaviour of criminal groups (such as violence) while tolerating less harmful activities.
This briefing highlights the effects of drug policy on women as producers, suppliers and consumers of drugs in order to inform and guide policy makers on practices that should be avoided, as well as highlight those policies which effectively incorporate and address women’s needs.
This IDPC response provides an overview of the data and topics presented in the Report and where appropriate, within the broader context of the current state of the UN drug control framework, offer a critical analysis of both.
This paper intends to support the discussions of the high-level review by presenting global trends on the evolution of the drug problem since the adoption of the Plan of Action and by making some reflections on the way forward.
Long-term compulsory rehabilitation cannot be justified on the grounds of effectiveness or ethics. The practice has also been associated with a number of human rights violations.
This publication aims to address the problem of violence against women and girls in detention and to promote a gender perspective in monitoring detention centres.
This guide helps to differentiate among use, abuse, and dependency on psychoactive substances, in order to promote and implement the most adequate healthcare responses.
