Publications from IDPC Members

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25 November 2010

Measuring up - A guide for learners: HIV-related advocacy evaluation training for civil society organisations

The need for advocacy to address the challenges of HIV is widely acknowledged and accepted. This resource, published by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, brings together useful concepts and models identified from new literature on advocacy evaluation.

24 November 2010

TNI Drug Policy Briefing No.33 - Alternative Development or Business as Usual? China’s Opium Substitution Policy in Burma and Laos

The Chinese Government's opium substitution programmes in northern Burma and Laos have brought some developments, but have concomitantly had serious negative consequences for China’s two neighbours.

24 November 2010

Advancing the sexual and reproductive health and human rights of injecting drug users living with HIV

The policy briefing focusing on injecting drug users seeks to discover the key needs and rights of this community around sexual and reproductive health.

27 October 2010

IDPC Briefing Paper - Drug policy and development: How action against illicit drugs impacts on the Millennium Development Goals

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

26 October 2010

The death penalty for drug offences and international support for drug enforcement

The purpose of this briefing is to highlight the dangers associated with funding drug control activities in countries with capital drug laws as detailed in IHRA’s report 'Complicity or abolition?', and to provide recommendations to donor-countries.

26 October 2010

Abused and afraid in Ciudad Juarez - An analysis of human rights violations by the military in Mexico

The report focuses on human rights violations that occurred in Ciudad Juarez in the context of Joint Operation Chihuahua, which began in March 2008. The five cases described involve acts of torture, forced disappearance and sexual harassment of women by Mexican soldiers.

22 October 2010

ICSDP Report - Tools for debate: U.S. Government data demonstrates failure of cannabis prohibition

The International Centre for Science in Drug Policy has released new research that demonstrates the clear failure of U.S. marijuana prohibition and supports calls for evidence-based models to legalise and regulate the use of cannabis.

20 September 2010

Drug laws around the world

Drug laws vary widely from country to country. Some nations embrace various elements of a harm reduction approach, in which drug policies are set and evaluated with the goal of reducing the harm of drugs and drug policies. A few nations (most notably Portugal) are even exploring a post-prohibition model by decriminalizing drugs.

14 September 2010

Human Rights Watch Report - Needless pain, government failure to provide palliative care for children in Kenya

This Human Rights Watch report found that most Kenyan children with diseases such as cancer or HIV/AIDS are unable to get palliative care or pain medicines. The Kenyan government has taken a step in the right direction by establishing a few hospital palliative care units in recent years, but much more needs to be done to stop sick children from suffering needlessly.

24 August 2010

IDPC/TNI series on legislative reform of drug policies - Drug law reform: lessons from the New Zealand experience

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 punishment and more on the delivery of effective treatment.

24 August 2010

Hepatitis C - transmission and injecting drug use: harm reduction responses

This report outlines interventions for tackling hepatitis C in drug injecting populations in Europe and the surrounding area. These approaches are detailed in the context of the major common challenges faced across the region in addressing hepatitis C in drug injecting populations.

29 July 2010

TNI Series on Legislative Reform of Drug Policies No. 7 - A matter of substance: Fighting drug trafficking with a substance-oriented approach

This paper discusses the “substance-oriented approach” Dutch authorities implemented to to scare off potential small-scale cocaine smugglers. The focus was on the drugs, rather than the couriers, and on incapacitating the smuggling route, rather than deterrence by incarceration.