This IDPC advocacy note offers analysis and recommendations to contribute to the development of a post- 2015 ASEAN drug strategy that can meet the expectations of the ASEAN Secretary-General in being innovative, prompt to adapt to changing and challenging circumstances, and global in its outlook.
In the lead up to the negotiations of the UNGASS outcome document, IDPC has drafted this advocacy note with recommendations on the structure and contents of the “zero draft”.
This IDPC briefing paper analyses some of the consequences of the current Brazilian drug policy, taking into account its impacts on prisoners’ rights and on the criminal justice system as a whole.
This IDPC report provides an overview and analysis of the key debates and discussions that took place during this year's CND, in particular in light of the approaching UNGASS.
The objective of the workshop was to build the capacities of NGOs in the region to promote the recommendations of the West African Commission on Drugs for drug policy reform.
The Toolkit is intended as a comprehensive menu of activities and content – from which a facilitator can pick and choose the ones which best suit the context, audience and timeframe.
This briefing is designed to support those involved in the development of applications for grants for the Global Fund that aim at promoting comprehensive and effective HIV responses.
The high-level thematic debate on 7th May will be the first time the UNGASS preparations are substantively discussed in New York and therefore provides an important opportunity to engage both the broader UN family and New York-based country missions.
This paper discusses recent changes to sentencing in England and Wales, which aim to recognise drug couriers as a distinct category, and so attribute lesser, more proportionate punishment.
The modernisation of drug law enforcement in Latin America can be a galvanizing force for changing the broader criminal justice system and perhaps show the way toward fixing a broken system.
This report offers an in-depth analysis of India's complex drug policies including an insight into the country's licit and illicit drug cultivation as well as its regulated opium cultivation industry.
This briefing paper reviews the efforts conducted in the USA to adopt a less repressive, more proportionate, and more effective approach towards drug offenders.
The lack of access to controlled medicines in many countries around the globe is an important indicator that the time is right to start revising the international drug control treaties.
This briefing paper highlights the proportionality of sentencing in Cambodia, discussing some relevant international principles relevant to consideration of those issues.
This case study offers an overview of some of the main drug policy issues facing young people in the USA, looking at the impacts of the drug policy and harm reduction on young people.
