This roundtable explores how punitive drug policies are fuelling digital systems of surveillance, exclusion and institutional violence, and how cross-movement advocacy can advance harm reduction, accountability and safety.
IDPC urged Member States to move from punishment to care by decriminalising drug use, funding harm reduction, and backing the communities already protecting life.
27 UN human rights experts from 19 mandates call for a fundamental shift towards decriminalisation, harm reduction, evidence-based regulation, care and support, warning that punitive and militarised drug policies continue to drive serious human rights violations.
The publication provides compelling evidence of the failures of punitive drug policies, but sorely lacks engagement with harm reduction, decriminalisation, responsible regulation and other evidence-based alternatives.
IDPC joins this civil society call for the UN’s main drug control entities to unequivocally condemn the use of the death penalty for drug offences and ensure that international cooperation does not contribute to further executions.
IJSC and HRI launch a new report examining how international aid for drug control programmes may contribute to the imposition of death sentences for drug offences.
IDPC offers recommendations on how the Expert Panel’s mandate should be interpreted, and proposes eight structural issues around which the Panel
could frame its deliberations and final report
This side event at centres the rights and experiences of families of people deprived of liberty, highlighting the impact of incarceration on women, children and adolescents.
The global coalition argues that the US's attacks on small boats are illegal under international law and devastating to the ecnomies of coastal communities.
