The Forum urged periodic HRC resolutions, stronger UN coordination, an operational expert panel, and sustained harm reduction funding, highlighting Indigenous rights, decriminalisation, and civil society inclusion as key priorities.
INPUD warns that abrupt US foreign aid cuts have devastated harm reduction services, leaving people who use drugs without life-saving care, triggering service collapse, job losses, and a looming human rights crisis.
YouthRISE Nigeria outlines Nigeria’s harm reduction response in the context of its legal framework, highlighting key policy gaps, institutional dynamics, and emerging opportunities for change.
DPA calls on the US to abandon drug war strategies and embrace a health and human rights-based approach, showing how global prohibition fuels violence, poverty, and overdose crises.
This publication offers contributions to the debate on land use and climate justice, shining a light on the dynamics arising from current drug policies in Brazil.
PRI highlights record prison populations, overcrowding and rights abuses — urging drug policy reform, non-custodial measures and centring lived experience in decision-making
IDPC and fellow NGOs expose how militarised drug policies fuel extrajudicial killings and systemic abuse, urging urgent global reforms to uphold human rights and end impunity.
HRNA notes that harm reduction education is inconsistently included in Canadian nursing programs, identifying key challenges, consequences, and improvements to meet escalating needs.
The upcoming strategy Drug Strategy offers an opportunity to remediate the lack of adequate support for harm reduction services and promote health outcomes and rights.
INPUD's survey highlights the devastating effects of foreign aid cuts on harm reduction programming and community networks, calling for emergency funding mechanisms, increased domestic support and intensified advocacy.
