IDPC Publications

A key role and added value of IDPC is the production of policy analysis for a broad range of audiences including academia, civil society and policy makers. The majority of these publications are collaborations with members and partners, and are translated into multiple languages to support and facilitate advocacy.

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13 December 2023

IDPC Progress Report 2022-2023

IDPC summarises key wins and progress achieved between April 2022 and March 2023 toward ensuring that social justice and human rights are core tenets of drug policies.

4 December 2023

Off track: Shadow report for the mid-term review of the 2019 Ministerial Declaration on drugs

IDPC draws on wide-ranging data from UN, government, academic and civil society sources to conclude that there has been little, incomplete or no progress in achieving the goals set out in the 2019 Ministerial Declaration on Drugs.

4 December 2023

8th Brandenburg Forum on Drugs and Development Policies report - 'The way forward to 2029: Accelerating progress in global drug policies'

The Forum addressed development, public health, human rights, and emerging trends in drug policies, with recommendations on decriminalisation, human rights and building support for change.

16 November 2023

Justice is setting them free: Women, drug policies, and incarceration in Latin America

The Working Group on Women, Drug Policy and Incarceration reflects on almost ten years of collective research and joint advocacy, achievements and disappointments, as well as challenges and opportunities for the future.

10 October 2023

The 2024 Mid-term review: Paving the way towards transformative drug policies grounded in reality

IDPC lays out the main challenges and opportunities offered by the upcoming 2024 mid-term review, underscoring that the objectives set out in 2019 have not been met and that a new approach is urgently needed.

15 September 2023

Moving away from the punitive paradigm: An analysis of the 2023 OHCHR report on drug policy

IDPC highlights the major gains from the 2023 OHCHR report on human rights and drug policy, and provides recommendations to Member States and UN entities for its effective implementation.

31 August 2023

Stuck in the inertia of the past: Report of the 66th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs

IDPC notes clashes between reform and status quo advocates in the international community, in the context of tensions related to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russia and increasingly central calls for systemic change.

15 August 2023

Comments to draft General Recommendation N. 37 on racial discrimination in the enjoyment of the right to health - IDPC submission to CERD

IDPC, Amnesty International, CDPE, HRI, DPA, Release and CELS provide evidence on the role of drug policies as a driver of discriminatory policing and incarceration.

9 August 2023

Submission to CERD: The right to health and the criminalisation of ancestral plants

IDPC and ICEERS argue that the right of Indigenous Peoples to grow, use, possess, heal, and travel with their ancestral plants should be enshrined as a part of a right to health free from racial discrimination.

27 July 2023

The INCB Report for 2022 - Regulated cannabis markets and international legal tensions: A missed opportunity

IDPC welcomes the Board's increasing focus on human rights issues and cannabis regulation, whilst regretting its misrepresentation of the evidence on the latter, flawed interpretations of the relationship between human rights and drug control treaties, and a lack of constructive thinking on how to address the proliferation of systemic breaches in the global drug control regime.

24 July 2023

The decriminalisation of people who use drugs: An essential component of a human rights-based approach to drug policy - IDPC submission to OHCHR

IDPC, CDPE, Instituto RIA, HRI and the Health[e]Foundation provide data and recommendations on the importance of decriminalisation to fulfil the human rights of people who use drugs.

11 July 2023

Moving beyond prohibition and towards a human rights-based approach to drugs: IDPC submission to OHCHR

IDPC calls on the UN system and Member States to initiate a process to evaluate the human rights impacts of the global drug control regime, and to propose concrete steps for its reform and modernisation.