The EU’s new Civil Society Strategy delivers a boost to frontline organisations and underlines the commitment to protecting civil society space, fostering official mechanisms of engagement with EU institutions, and supporting funding.
Romero outlines how the dismantling of global aid and civic participation pathways poses an existential threat to the UN's goals of rights-based governance.
Intersecção discusses how drug prohibition fuels deforestation, violence, and inequality across the region, linking the 'war on drugs' to the global climate crisis and calling for ecological harm reduction and rights-based regulation.
Daniels et al. explore how financing, technical aid, and corporate interests perpetuate neo-colonial power through drug control, calling to dismantle these systems in favour of rights-based reform.
UNDP provides guidance to ensure that digital technologies for HIV and health are used ethically, protect human rights, and advance equity in the digital age.
IDPC reflects on a year of resilience and change, driving decriminalisation, harm reduction, responsible regulation, and international drug policy reform while defending civil society and rights amid funding cuts and political turmoil.
White et al. argue that scientific, cultural and legal evidence clearly distinguishes coca from cocaine — and that global drug policy must correct this long-standing misclassification rooted in colonial bias.
This collection examines Europe’s harm reduction journey, including early successes, uneven implementation, securitisation, stigma and medicalisation; and proposes a reframed, people-led approach centring wellbeing, acknowledging drug-use benefits, and advancing rights-based reforms.
Traditional coca leaf producers and consumers from Peru reject their government’s stance before the WHO, urging the organisation to deschedule coca, recognise its cultural and medicinal uses, and support research and rights-based policies
The New Zealand Drug Foundation urges reform of outdated drug laws, calling for decriminalisation, Māori-led health approaches and investment in harm reduction to build safer, fairer, evidence-based policies for Aotearoa New Zealand.
Sjöland et al. find that limited funding and access to harm reduction and treatment services and high opioid availability cause persistently high overdose rates among people who inject drugs in Myanmar, with disproportionate impacts on migrant populations.
The HIV Legal Network argues that laws criminalising simple possession and drug trafficking entrench racism and stigma, deepen inequality, and endanger health and safety by pushing drug use into isolation and heightening the risk of overdose.
