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Blog25 June 2025

Evidence that cannot be contained: The World Drug Report 2025 reveals the ongoing failure of the drug control regime

Behind cautious language, the data expose a system that criminalises, harms, and undermines health.

Events

Support. Don’t Punish: Advancing towards a health and human rights-based approach to drug policy

Geneva, Switzerland

27 June 2025

This event will explore how harm reduction and human rights can shape drug policy reform, against the backdrop of debates on the matter at the Human Rights Council and the Support. Don't Punish Global Day of Action.

Publications17 June 2025

High-level panel on a resilient and fit-for-purpose UNAIDS joint programme in the context of the sustainability of the HIV response

A new UNAIDS–ILO report lays out urgent reforms in relation to the Joint Programme's management, warning of resurgence risks without stronger country leadership, civil society involvement, domestic investment, and forecasting the pandemic's progress.

Publications8 June 2025

The human cost of policy shifts: The fallout of US foreign aid cuts on harm reduction programming and people who use drugs

INPUD warns that abrupt US foreign aid cuts have devastated harm reduction services, leaving people who use drugs without life-saving care, triggering service collapse, job losses, and a looming human rights crisis.

Blog5 June 2025

'When the going gets tough’: Leadership change at UNODC amidst global turmoil, UN reforms and drug policy opportunities

Ghada Waly’s resignation offers the UN Secretary-General a chance to appoint a leader who will align UNODC with human rights-based drug policies and the broader UN system.

Publications4 June 2025

Beyond the drug war: A health-first approach to global drug policy

DPA calls on the US to abandon drug war strategies and embrace a health and human rights-based approach, showing how global prohibition fuels violence, poverty, and overdose crises.

Publications4 June 2025

Global Prison Trends 2025

PRI highlights record prison populations, overcrowding and rights abuses — urging drug policy reform, non-custodial measures and centring lived experience in decision-making

Events

CND 68th Session Reconvened

Vienna, Austria

4 December 2025 - 5 December 2025

This will be a joint meeting reconvening both the CND 68th session and the 34th CCPCJ session.

Blog4 June 2025

INCB recommends increased morphine production for palliative care

The INCB’s 2024 report highlights the global failure to ensure equitable access to controlled medicines for pain relief, palliative care, and harm reduction — urging urgent, rights-affirming reforms.

Events

CND Chair's special event: World Drug Day - Launch of the 2025 UNODC World Drug Report

Vienna, Austria

26 June 2025

The World Drug Report, launched by the CND Chair at this event, monitors global drug trends, health impacts and policy impacts.

Events

CND Intersessional meeting - Thematic discussions on the implementation of all international drug policy commitments following up to the 2019 Ministerial Declaration (Autumn 2025)

Vienna, Austria

30 September 2025 - 2 October 2025

A CND event to review global drug policy progress, address urgent health challenges, and prepare for 2028 stock-taking and reforms.

Publications4 June 2025

Triggering injustice: State violence in the name of drug control — IDPC joint submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on summary, extrajudicial or arbitrary executions

IDPC and fellow NGOs expose how militarised drug policies fuel extrajudicial killings and systemic abuse, urging urgent global reforms to uphold human rights and end impunity.

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