PRI and TIJ discuss how punitive drug policies continue to drive imprisonment, while incarcerated people who use drugs face severe gaps in evidence-based harm reduction.
IDPC offers recommendations on how the Expert Panel’s mandate should be interpreted, and proposes eight structural issues around which the Panel
could frame its deliberations and final report
HRI, WHRIN and IDPC call on states to dismantle punitive drug policies that expose women and gender-diverse people to criminalisation, violence and barriers to healthcare, and to invest in gender-responsive, community-led harm reduction services.
HRI, ESOHR, KHRC and WHRIN call for the abolition of the death penalty for drug offences, highlighting its disproportionate impact on women and girls .
Witzel et al. highlight the need for harm reduction, legal support and drug policy reform responses tailored to the realities of this specific sexualised drug use practice in Thailand.
IHRNGO and ECPM report that executions in Iran reached their highest recorded level since 1989 , with drug-related offences accounting for nearly half of all known executions.
The Working Group on Women, Drug Policy and Incarceration analyses how punitive drug policies have driven the incarceration of women in Latin America and proposes gender-sensitive and intersectional responses.
Gannon et al. find that anti-Latine bias can increase public support for punitive drug-induced homicide laws in the United States, underscoring how racialised assumptions continue to shape drug policy.
IDPC provides key recommendations on how the expert panel can meaningfully engage with civil society, directly affected communities, Indigenous Peoples and youth within their work.
Acción Andina and the Programa Libertas outline how punitive practices and prohibitionist logics persist in Bolivia, highlighting the voices of surviving victims.
