18 May 2021Women deprived of liberty and excessive use of pre-trial detention in PeruAlmost 60% of all women detained for drug offences in Peru are in a situation of vulnerability and socioeconomic precariousness.
20 May 2021Kenya Rastafari group seeks to legalise 'spiritual' cannabis useThe Rastafarian Society of Kenya says the current law violates their religious rights.
21 May 2021Why Japan Is so strict about drugsUS occupation post-WWII stamped out traditional uses of hemp and gave rise to prohibitionist policies in the country.
22 May 2021Accelerating progress and tackling inequalities towards ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030The European Parliament calls to strengthen the HIV response, including by ending the criminalisation and discrimination of populations disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
22 May 2021The Jacarezinho massacre and lethal drug policy enforcement in BrazilPunctuated by bloodbaths, police brutality is fuelled by the harmful pursuit of a drug-free society.
26 May 2021Civil society supports government proposal to reform drug laws in the Czech RepublicReforms would provide a legal framework to implement safer consumption sites, drug checking and expanded decriminalisation.
26 May 2021Australia: After furious debate, Melbourne council votes to support safe-injecting roomOver 20 years after the opening of Australia's first safer consumption site, a second one would see the light in Melbourne.
28 May 2021Britain's Misuse of Drugs Act turns 50 with reform callsPoliticians, former police officers and civil society representatives reflect on the repressive drug laws that have marked the past half century.