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IDPC requests that President Santos ensure that the government respects the peace process, including the crop substitution agreements, support genuine dialogue with local communities and cease forced eradication in areas where such agreements have been signed or are being negotiated.

This new series of policy briefs explores innovative approaches that incorporate a gender perspective and the principles of public health and human rights into drug policy.

Drug control in many ASEAN countries has exacted a very high human cost and failed to create a "drug-free" region. ASEAN needs to re-evaluate and its approach and revise its response to drug-related problems in ways that will improve, and not undermine, the health, security and development of all…

375 civil society groups, including prominent human rights NGOs, from across the globe have called on UN drug control authorities to urge an immediate stop to the extrajudicial killings of suspected drug offenders in the Philippines.

Although the Outcome Document does include some good language on some points (such as access to essential medicines, development, overdose prevention and alternatives to incarceration), it could have been a very different document if the more progressive inputs had not been overlooked.