Amnesty International highlights growing momentum towards abolishing the death penalty across Southeast Asia, while Singapore remains an outlier, having carried out 19 executions for drug offences in the first nine months of 2026 alone.
IDPC joins civil society in denouncing a Bolivian bill proposing forced sterilisation of marginalised women who use drugs, calling instead for decriminalisation and voluntary, gender-responsive harm reduction services.
Martin Jelsma argues that the WHO’s decision to maintain the plant's international scheduling disregards scientific evidence and Indigenous Peoples’ rights, reflecting inconsistencies in the UN drug control system and the need for reform.
Drugreporter does a guided tour of Bergen’s pioneering HABIB clinic, highlighting how HAT can improve the health and wellbeing of people with long-term opioid dependence.
Harm reduction in Colombia must go beyond health services to confront the everyday violence, criminalisation and structural inequalities shaping the lives of people who use drugs, centring their lived experiences, safety and dignity.
Peer-led, gender-responsive harm reduction in Turin, Italy, creates safer, stigma-free spaces for women and LGBTQI+ people who use drugs, integrating healthcare, reproductive rights and emotional support while centring autonomy, dignity and self-determination.
Methadone take-home doses are associated with better treatment retention and lower mortality than daily supervised dosing, reinforcing the need to remove barriers to access.
Colombia's former ambassador to the UN in Vienna, Laura Gil, reflects on the independent review of the drug control system and its role in challenging the assumption that the international legal framework is not open to reform.
The Court argued that by criminalising DULF's community-led compassion club, which saved lives, reduced harms and did not affect public safety, the current legal framework violated fundamental rights.
IDPC and partners welcomed the UN EMLER’s recognition of systemic racism in drug law enforcement and called for urgent action to address the racialised impacts of punitive drug policy.
IDPC, formerly incarcerated women and civil society partners call for drug policies rooted in care rather than punishment, with women with lived experience at the centre of policymaking and greater action to address gender and structural inequalities.
