US foreign aid cuts imperil the harm reduction and HIV responses, mark a global intensification of reactionary politics, and expose the world's reliance on foreign funding to support domestic care services.
Cuts in foreign aid and shrinking space for civil society are jeopardising decades of progress in harm reduction, gender equality, and sexual and reproductive health rights.
The latest CND offered key milestones in terms of scrutiny of the global drug control regime and coca-related reform, despite the United States' disruptive participation.
The Committee's concluding observations on the Philippines and the United Kingdom include clear recommendations on aligning drug policy with human rights standards.
The state's decriminalisation rollback has led to thousands of arrests feeding disruptive cycles of detention and release with no improvements in access to housing, healthcare and other forms of support.
Trump has nominated Carter, a former right-wing journalist, to lead a tough-on-crime agenda at the Office of National Drug Control Policy, despite a lack of relevant experience.
A report by the UN Human Rights Office in 2020 found there were credible allegations of widespread and systematic extrajudicial killings in the context of the regime's 'war on drugs'.
