The conference will together people with lived and living experience, policymakers, service providers, and health and social care professionals to explore responses to drug-related deaths and harms.
EECA communities and civil society call on governments to ensure that the 2026 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS protects community-led responses, removes punitive barriers, and sustains harm reduction.
The Lancet underscores how punitive drug laws continue to fuel HIV risk, stigma and exclusion for people who use drugs, despite growing calls for reform.
Community-led harm reduction education in the Philippines seeks to replace fear-based drug narratives with evidence, empathy and respect for the rights of people who use drugs.
Lebanon’s emergency extension of vital prescriptions shows how flexible, rights-based health responses can protect people who use drugs subjected to war and displacement.
Amid mounting concern over extrajudicial killings and abuses carried out in the name of the 'war on drugs', survivors' stories underscore the deadly risk of the US campaign against 'narcoterrorism'.
A coalition of 125 organisations warns of human rights implications, as well as the risk of legal responsibility for States collaborating in unlawful killings at sea.
TNI's Programme Director for Drugs & Democracy reflects on his career, noting both key areas of progress and the persistent, damaging pull toward securitisation.
The recent WHO decision to maintain the international classification of coca leaf highlights ongoing tensions between drug control frameworks and Indigenous rights, cultural practices and scientific evidence.
