Ten years after the adoption of the Bangkok Rules, countries have largely failed to implement them, while the number of women in prison has risen dramatically.
The BMZ identifies obstacles and opportunities in the provision of alternative livelihoods, including through the cultivation of cannabis for medical purposes.
The Support. Don’t Punish campaign documents global efforts to progress harm reduction and drug policy reform as part of the 2020 Global Day of Action.
HRI and IDPC discuss some of the current and emerging challenges specifically faced by people detained for drug offences and people in detention who use drugs.
Conectas, IDPC, and INNPD provide input to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights focusing on the serious violation of the rights to health of people who use drugs in Brazil.
Despite substantial, and welcomed, changes in the INCB's approach to human rights, reticences remain and point to structural conflicts between drug policy and human rights within the UN system.
IDPC, WOLA and PRI note an alarming rise in female incarceration rates in Latin America since 2000, putting countless women at risk of abuse and exacerbating the vulnerabilities they face in society.
Clean Start provides formerly-incarcerated women with avenues for healing, education and employment, breaking cycles of criminalisation and vulnerability.
IDPC explains how civil society has been excluded from the newly-created ‘topical meetings' on the WHO cannabis re-scheduling recommendations, and why this departs from recent progress on openness and civil society participation.
IDPC urges the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to address the human rights abuses committed in the name of the criminalisation, imprisonment and forced internment of people who use drugs.
