2013 drug policy report CBDD / Viva Rio

In 2013, the activities of the Brazilian organisations promoted reforms in the judiciary sphere, the legislative branch, public opinion and the healthcare and social assistance public systems.

Publications January 21, 2014

Viva Rio and Rio de Janeiro's government inaugurate Casa Viva project

This house is part of a project aimed to recuperate young crack users.

News Alerts September 20, 2013

Evangelical manifesto in favour of decriminalisation at Brazilian National Congress

A letter in favour of the decriminalisation of people who use drugs was handed was handed to the Brazilian National Congress by more than 100 evangelical leaders.

News Alerts May 13, 2013

Manifest presented to Brazil's minister of the Supreme Federal Court

Seven former ministers of justice in Brazil signed a manifest attesting the unconstitutionality of the criminalization of the penal repression of drug possession for personal use.

News Alerts April 26, 2013

Civil police debate drug policy in Rio de Janeiro

More than 100 people met to discuss the current law regulating drug policy in Brazil during the seminar “Health and drug policy: The civil police at the front of the debate”.

News Alerts April 9, 2013

Updates on Viva Rio's "Drug law: It's time to change" campaign.

As part of the campaign's desire to transform the way that Brazilian public powers treat the drug issue, Viva Rio held a seminar for law enforcement officers at the Civil Police Academy Sylvio Earth, in Rio de Janeiro.

News Alerts April 5, 2013

Seminar Bases Itself on International Case Studies to Reconstruct Brazil’s Drug Policies

The international seminar, Health and Drug Policies: It’s Time to Change, hold on December 17th focussed, among others, on the need to integrate Health into the debate of drugs.

News Alerts January 1, 2013

Draft bill on the decriminalization of drug users in Brazil reaches record online views

Led by the national campaign “Drug Law: It’s Time to Change”, the draft bill aiming to decriminalize illicit drug possession and cultivation for personal use was presented last week in the online debate forum, E-Democracia. Since then, the bill has brought forth a wave of online followers.

News Alerts September 7, 2012

Brazil’s “Drug Law: It’s Time to Change” Campaign Turns Viral

the Brazilian Commission on Drugs and Democracy (CBDD) and Viva Rio launched a national campaign to change the law on drugs in Brazil.

Blog Posts August 3, 2012

CBDD and Viva Rio launch national campaign to change the Drug Law in Brazil

The campaign “Drug Law: it’s time to change” will collect 1 million signatures to present Brazil’s National Congress with a bill calling for more equitable and effective drug legislation in the country.

News Alerts July 9, 2012

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