Why “harm reduction” means something different in Mexico

Substance analysis opens a window of opportunity to talk about safer ways to use drugs.

News Alerts May 10, 2016

Civil society statement - The UNGASS outcome document: Diplomacy or denialism?

Civil society groups from all over the world have released a statement condemning governments for failing to acknowledge the devastating consequences of punitive and repressive drug policies as they prepare for a UN summit on the issue next month.

News Alerts March 13, 2016

Global Ibogaine Conference 2016

14 - 16 March 2016

Tepoztlan, Mexico

The 2016 Global Ibogaine Conference will convene experts from around the world to discuss ibogaine therapy, the climate of global drug policy, and the sustainability and traditional uses of Tabernanthe iboga.

Events 12 November 2015

Civil society recommendations for the consolidated position of Mexico to the Final Document of the 2016 UNGASS

This paper presents specific recommendations for Mexico to promote in the development of a consolidated position for the final document of UNGASS 2016.

Publications September 23, 2015

New UN report highlights ongoing conflicts on the death penalty for drugs: As countries ramp up executions, UN drugs meeting in Vienna to be scene of heightened debate

The death penalty for drug offences represents the sharp end of the world’s failed war on drugs, disproportionately punishing the vulnerable while failing to tackle entrenched forces of crime and corruption.

INCBPost March 3, 2015

One month after 43 Mexican students disappeared

More than 80 social organisations from various regions of the world condemned the enforced disappearance of 43 Mexican students in the context of that country’s “war on drugs”.

News Alerts October 28, 2014

Ending the ‘war on drugs’ through policies underpinned by an economic analysis

Underpinned by an economic analysis, this article calls on the government to reallocate resources away from damaging and counterproductive policies based on punitive and enforcement led policies and to focus more on harm reduction.

Publications September 23, 2014

Colombia, more than three decades of toxic spraying. Enough!

It is unfortunate that 35 years after the first chemical spraying in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, we are still writing about aerial spraying in Colombia, demanding the current government to definitely defer an ecocide and incompetent policy.

Publications September 17, 2014

A missed opportunity: Failures of the Agreement between the FARC-EP and the Colombian government on the solution to the problem of illicit drugs

The section regarding the problem of illicit drugs is middlemost, since drug trafficking in Colombia has been instrumental in sustaining what has been the longest conflict in the Western Hemisphere.