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The CND is dying: Time to put people who use drugs, evidences and human rights at the center of the response.

ANPUD offers a critical review of the 61st Session of the CND, underscoring its glaring disconnect with realities on the ground.

News Alerts 7 hours, 23 minutes ago

Conclusions of the WHO international meeting on prisons and health Lisbon 2017

The Conclusions endorse harm reduction interventions and urge member states to undertake criminal justice reform that involves alternatives to incarceration/conviction for non-violent drug offences.

Publications 3 days, 4 hours ago

Amnesty: Almost 1,000 prisoners executed worldwide in 2017

Over a quarter were drug-related executions.

News Alerts April 12, 2018

Conference room paper submitted by the Federal Republic of Germany on the importance of harm reduction for people who use stimulant drugs

This paper identifies key barriers and novel approaches to harm reduction for people who use stimulant drugs, and makes recommendations on the way forward.

Publications April 10, 2018

International drug policy: Is the UN becoming irrelevant?

By ignoring tensions between international law and the reality on the ground, leading world powers risk devaluing the UN system

News Alerts April 10, 2018

“The drug market is thriving” while the Commission on Narcotic Drugs limps along

The so-called consensus on drugs so clearly “ripped apart at the seams” is now a distant and rapidly fading memory.

Blog Posts April 8, 2018

By Ann FordhamExecutive Director

Open letter to Netflix CEO: Immediately cancel the streaming of “AMO”, which promotes the war on drugs in the Philippines

Human rights violations targeting people who use drugs and other populations in situations of vulnerability are not fodder for political benefit or public entertainment.

News Alerts April 8, 2018

122nd session of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)

7 - 18 May 2018

Vienna, Austria

The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) will hold its 122nd session on 7-18 May 2018.

Events 6 April 2018

INCB Watch: The Board at CND

The International Narcotics Control Board has, over the past month, been primarily occupied with its activities at the 61st CND.

INCB President Dr Viroj Sumyai spoke in the opening session at the plenary. He referred to the importance of Member States’ compliance with the international drug…

INCBPost April 3, 2018

Ending the agony: Access to Morphine as an Ethical and Human Rights Imperative

Millions of children and adults around the world, afflicted with terminal or life-threatening illnesses, suffer from severe physical pain, screaming out and begging for help. There is an effective treatment available that is easy and cheap to produce. And yet, for various reasons, including…

Publications April 3, 2018

Morphine as a human right

Millions of children and adults in low and middle income countries, inflicted with terminal or life threatening illnesses and suffering from severe physical pain, are unable to access morphine, an effective treatment that is easy and inexpensive to produce.

As a call to action to address this…

News Alerts April 3, 2018

Balancing treaty stability and change

Inter se modification appears to provide a useful safety valve for collective action to adjust the treaty regime of the UN drug control conventions.

Publications March 29, 2018

New VNGOC board

A new VNGOC board elected at the Annual General Assembly on 15 March 2018 introduces itself.

News Alerts March 29, 2018

Reporting by the Secretary-General on “moratorium on the use of the death penalty” pursuant to General Assembly resolution 71/187

The OHCHR has issued a letter asking to receive relevant information covering developments since 19 December 2019 on the question of the moratorium on the use of the death penalty, to be submitted no later than 1 May 2018.

News Alerts March 28, 2018

Global review of drug checking services operating in 2017

The NDARC offers an overview of the features of drug checking services operating across the globe as at 2017.

Publications March 28, 2018

UN Human Rights Council reaffirms role of human rights in international drug policy debate

Despite the unequivocal link between the drug policy debates and human rights, the negotiations in Geneva held over several weeks were not easy, demonstrated by the oral amendments to the text that were made even in the last hour.

Blog Posts March 28, 2018

Aids is (still) political

The annual letter points out that harmful political choices, including rapid donor transitions, criminalization and unscientific public health programmes have left many countries and regions with no end to AIDS in sight.

News Alerts March 28, 2018

International Overdose Awareness Day: 31 August 2018

31 August 2018

International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD) is a global event held on 31 August each year. It aims to raise awareness around overdose and reduce the stigma of drug-related death, while also providing the opportunity to lobby politicians about overdose and demand better community responses.

Events 22 March 2018

Drug policy reform- the UNGASS 2016 a catalyst for change?

Diogenis finds the UNGASS outcome document to be a sign of progress in the debate about change of many problematic aspects of the current policy.

Publications March 9, 2018

Call for WHO & UNODC to revise guidelines on International Standards for the Treatment of Drug Use Disorders

The guidelines in their current form are not aligned with current UN guidance on harm reduction, nor grounded in evidence.

News Alerts March 9, 2018

International Drug Policy Consortium

World