Tuari Potiki, departing chair of the NZ Drug Foundation, addresses the discriminations Māori face at the hands of New Zealand's punitive drug laws.

Conectas, IDPC, and INNPD provide input to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights focusing on the serious violation of the rights to health of people who use drugs in Brazil.

IDPC and a coalition of NGOs provide recommendations to ensure that Nepalese national drug policies respect human rights and fundamental freedoms.

The Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission proposes a change in drug policy priorities, but critics riposte that a public-health-minded drug war is still a drug war.

ICC prosecutor finds ‘reasonable basis to believe’ crimes against humanity were committed in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs campaign.

ARASA documents funding and related obstacles to the regional HIV response.

Civil society organisations call on Latin American authorities to prioritise alternatives to incarceration and gender-specific responses to protect the rights of trans women and other LBGTQI people.

On Human Rights Day, UNAIDS calls to end the inequalities and injustices that fuel AIDS and other pandemics.

On the 10th anniversary of the UN Bangkok rules, dozens of civil society organisations urge government to curb women prison populations and rights abuses in prison.

Despite substantial, and welcomed, changes in the INCB's approach to human rights, reticences remain and point to structural conflicts between drug policy and human rights within the UN system.