A House of Cards - ‘High compliance’: A legally indefensible and confusing distraction

It is time to acknowledge that certain elements of the global drug control treaties are unfit for purpose, resting on the foundations of the colonial legacy and unjust policy approaches.

News Alerts May 3, 2022

Argentina: Two contrasting court decisions underscore need for gender-oriented drug law reforms

The criminalisation of drugs falls most heavily on people and communities in situations of vulnerability, underscoring its destructive impact.

News Alerts February 23, 2022

NGOs urge UNODC's Executive Director to mark Human Rights Day with a call to reform drug policies that entrench inequality

89 CSOs underscore the need to tackle harms of repressive drug policies undermining human rights.

News Alerts December 6, 2021

NGOs urge UNODC's Executive Director to mark Human Rights Day with a call to reform drug policies that entrench inequality

89 CSOs underscore the need to tackle harms of repressive drug policies undermining human rights.

News Alerts December 6, 2021

Recent UN report on arbitrary detention and drug policies underscores urgent need for reform

The use of arbitrary detention to uphold punitive drug policies is an example of the wide-ranging damage of the 'war on drugs.'

News Alerts December 2, 2021

Gender, drugs, and criminal justice: Navigating human rights challenges - CCPCJ side event

This parallel event to the 30th intersessional meeting of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice explored the gendered impacts of drug control and the carceral system on women’s human rights, and offered some key recommendations for the way forward.

Events November 12, 2021

Inside out from women's prisons: Resisting punitive drug policies

The high percentage of women in prison for drug-related charges (35%) speaks volumes of the need to reform drug policies from a gender perspective.

News Alerts October 19, 2021

Cannabis regulation: Lessons from the illicit tobacco trade

IDPC draws lessons from the challenges of tobacco control, including in relation to corporate capture, to inform the design of equitable, inclusive and sustainable cannabis legal regulation.

Publications September 23, 2021

Cannabis regulation: Lessons from the illicit tobacco trade - Publication launch

23 September 2021

Online

In seeking to future-proof sustainable regulatory efforts, join us for the launch of ‘Cannabis regulation: Lessons from the illicit tobacco trade’, an illuminating briefing paper written by Benoit Gomis and produced as a collaboration between the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), the Global Drug Policy Observatory (GDPO), Health Poverty Action (HPA), Transform, the Transnational Institute (TNI) and the Washington Office on latin America (WOLA).

Events 13 September 2021

Criminalised and incarcerated in Latin America: How the “drug war” drives the region’s prison crisis

7 September 2021 10:30-12:00

Online (time zone: EDT)

Please join WOLA for this webinar series examining the consequences of prohibition and the drug war for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Events 2 September 2021

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A House of Cards - ‘High compliance’: A legally indefensible and confusing distraction

Argentina: Two contrasting court decisions underscore need for gender-oriented drug law reforms

NGOs urge UNODC's Executive Director to mark Human Rights Day with a call to reform drug policies that entrench inequality

NGOs urge UNODC's Executive Director to mark Human Rights Day with a call to reform drug policies that entrench inequality

Recent UN report on arbitrary detention and drug policies underscores urgent need for reform

Gender, drugs, and criminal justice: Navigating human rights challenges - CCPCJ side event

Inside out from women's prisons: Resisting punitive drug policies

Cannabis regulation: Lessons from the illicit tobacco trade

Cannabis regulation: Lessons from the illicit tobacco trade - Publication launch

Criminalised and incarcerated in Latin America: How the “drug war” drives the region’s prison crisis

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