Caribbean

Publications13 August 2024

Communication to the UN CESCR regarding Honduras periodic review on the right to health of people who use drugs

IDPC and LANPUD focus on key health indicators, impact on criminalisation and stigma, and availability of harm reduction services in Honduras.

News24 March 2024

Saint Lucia to host Caribbean Cannabis Symposium

The symposium aims to harmonise cannabis policies to create robust and inclusive regimes in the Caribbean region.

Publications10 March 2024

New approaches to cannabis culture

Niaah et al. lead an issue of Caribbean Quarterly, offering insights into the regional cannabis landscape, exploring policy and regulatory challenges and opportunities, socio-cultural significance, and many other dimensions.

News27 November 2023

Jamaican cannabis struggles to integrate traditional growers

Jamaica's cannabis regulation must shift course and priorities: from enabling corporate greed and perpetuating racial inequality, to prioritising social equity and reparations.

Publications25 November 2022

Corporate capture of the Latin American medical cannabis market

TNI illustrate how significant power asymmetries have allowed corporations to define the conditions of their involvement in emerging cannabis markets.

News7 September 2022

Bermuda: Crisis looms as Britain blocks cannabis legalisation

Bermuda's Attorney General decried the move, calling Britain's interpretation of the conventions 'archaic'.

Publications6 July 2022

Report on the Caribbean informal drug policy dialogue on the future of cannabis

TNI summarises the discussions held by representatives of grower communities in the region on the need to build inclusive and sustainable business models that integrate equity, human rights, public health, patient access, fair trade and environmental resilience.

Events

13th US National Harm Reduction Conference

San Juan, Puerto Rico

12 October 2022 - 15 October 2022

The 2022 National Harm Reduction Conference comes at a time when harm reduction, health care, and drug policy reform have entered a dynamic and critical phase.

Events

People who use drugs. Recognition and engage in the HIV response in Latin America

Online

19 January 2022

Webinar on the implementation of the GIPA principle with people who use drugs in the HIV response in the region and their representation in political and technical decision-making spaces, based on the results of the Technical Assistance of the Global Fund CRG carried out by LANPUD

Publications14 December 2021

Inclusion and participation of people who use drugs in Global Fund processes: Report of findings from a Global Fund Community, Rights and Gender short-term technical assistance project

Shirley-Beavan et al. document challenges faced by people who use drugs in Latin America to be recognised as key stakeholders in Global Fund processes in the region and ways forward.

Events

Criminalised and incarcerated in Latin America: How the “drug war” drives the region’s prison crisis

Online (time zone: EDT)

7 September 2021 - 7 September 2021

Please join WOLA for this webinar series examining the consequences of prohibition and the drug war for Latin America and the Caribbean.

News13 August 2021

To support indigenous rights in Latin America, decolonise drug policies

Latin American elites were instrumental in translating harmful and colonial drug laws into domestic legislation.

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