This paper analyses the difficulties and challenges NGOs are facing in their harm reduction work, along with gaps and shortcomings in this field, and provides recommendations for the further development of appropriate harm reduction programmes in the region.

This paper, written in collaboration with the Correlation Network, describes the law enforcement and community involvement elements of the strategy, and provides available data on the results achieved so far.

IDPC is pleased to announce that the executive summary of our Drug Policy Guide is now available in Arabic.

IDPC is pleased to announce that the IDPC Drug Policy Guide is now available in Georgian.

In this paper, IDPC asks that the Commission considers a number of issues in relation to addressing punitive laws and practices that effectively criminalise the lives of people who use drugs in South East Asia and calls on governments to address these issues as a matter of urgency.

The aim of the seminar was to engage high level officials in considering alternative options to the current mandatory treatment and rehabilitation system for managing drug using offenders in the country.

In this advocacy note, IDPC strongly urges the international community to abstain from submitting objections to the proposed amendment by Bolivia to remove the ban on coca leaf chewing.

The aim of the Network is to promote collaboration and exchange of information among the participants. This session was attended by 27 participants, both from NGOs and national governments and focused on two topics: harm reduction, and the Roma population. This report summarises the main…

This paper highlights the concerns raised by the lack of transparency in the INCB’s work, in particular regarding the current practice of the Board’s country correspondence with member states.

This short paper highlights some of the impacts of current repressive and/or narrow drug control policies on broader development goals.

This article presents the challenges of responding to the illicit drug market in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, highlighting the characteristics and dynamics of the markets, the impacts of the current drug policy approach on the scale of the market, and its implications for the human rights and security…

The aim of this review is to provide an overview and analysis of the contents of the 2010 UNODC World Drug Report and highlight a number of key issues of interest and concern.

The recent declaration by Mexican president Felipe Calderón on cannabis legalisation has sparked new discussions on illicit drugs in the country. However, the drugs debate is not a new topic for the Mexican political agenda. This document presents a general overview and analysis of the cannabis…

On 9 July 2010, the UN Secretary General appointed Russian Ambassador Yuri V. Fedotov as the next Executive Director of UNODC. In welcoming Mr. Fedorov, IDPC outlines in this advocacy note the critical challenges that he will face as he takes up office, and proposes key recommendations.

In 2007, the New Zealand Government entrusted an independent agency, the New Zealand Law Commission, to comprehensively review the country drug laws. The Commission's final report is likely to feature a new approach to personal pos­session and use, placing less emphasis on conviction and…

This briefing paper explores the question of Heroin Assisted Treatment (HAT), examines the growing body of evidence emerging from its clinical use in addiction therapies, and makes recommendations for policy makers.

This magazine features interviews with police officers from South East Europe and Eurasia who express their views on their countries’ law enforcement strategies, which often focus on arresting drug users for possession of small amounts of illegal drugs.

The purpose of this report is to examine and evaluate this mechanism for law reform, without the need for legislative reform, and to consider the specific discussion around sentencing for drug offences which it has led to.

Although perhaps more conciliatory in tone than in previous years, the document receals the INCB as a body that maintains a very narrow and selective interpretation of the drug control conventions. As policy debates around the world grow richer and more diverse, the INCB is in danger of being left…