The HCLU launched a fund raising campaign on Global Giving. The project aims to educate the public about the negative consequences of the global war on drugs, by producing online advocacy videos that mobilize people and promote human rights.
The training for trainers on Outreach Counselling under the behaviour change communication frameworks was the first one to get together people involved in CAHR project from Indonesia, China, Malaysia and Kenya.
Experience shows that an “alternative livelihoods” approach to improve the quality of life and income of poor farmers can be more effective. The International Guiding Principles on Alternative Development approved in Lima is a lost opportunity to promote equitable economic development.
In 2011, the government of Thailand moved to try and decrease the number of drug-users by 80 percent by adopting a more “softly, softly” approach. According to the treatment division at the Thai government's ONCB, half a million drug-users registered for rehabilitation in the past year.
2012 will be probably regarded as a turning point for drug policy in Latin America: as the year when the “war on drugs” paradigm began to be seriously and publicly called into question. This film features some of the main events of the year.
At least 540 people executed for drugs in Iran in 2011. This is just one data from a new report, The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2012, that identifies 33 countries or territories that still retain the death penalty for drug offenses.
The film tells the story of decriminalization from various perspectives, through the eyes of people involved in its formation, implementation and evaluation.
India delegation from National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) and India HIV/AIDS Alliance visited Ukraine to learn from harm reduction programme implemented by International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine and its partners.
Ассоциация «Врачи мира» и Инициативная группа по лечению СПИДа рады сообщить о появлении нового веб-сайта www.hepCoalition.org. Цель этого нового веб-сайта заключается в проведении всемирной общественной кампании в поддержку усилий по улучшению доступа к средствам предупреждения гепатита С (HCV), диагностики, лечения и ухода в странах с низким и средним уровнем доходов населения, наиболее затронутых этой проблемой.
Médecins du Monde, Treatment Action Group and Sidaction are pleased to announce the launch of a new website, www.hepCoalition.org. This new site aims to support the global advocacy effort to improve access to Hepatitis C (HCV) prevention tools, diagnostics, treatment and care.
Recognising that violence caused by transnational organized crime by the world drug problem is a serious threat to the welfare of citizens or promoting institutional strengthening were some of the agreements of last iberoamerican summit of Cadiz.