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News7 March 2023

On the human rights impacts of drug policy - IDPC Statement to the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council

Civil society looks to the Council for leadership in encouraging and welcoming initiatives from within the UN human rights system to ensure drug policy affirms, rather than undermine, human rights.

Publications24 February 2023

Community-led monitoring of programs and policies related to HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. A guide to support inclusion of CLM in funding requests to the Global Fund

The International AIDs Society has published a guide on applications for funding for community-led monitoring programmes, which aim to improve integrated person-centred approaches in health and social care.

Publications24 February 2023

Fostering community knowledge - Background paper on community-based harm reduction research

The European Harm Reduction Network look at what it means to have greater community involvement in harm reduction research and how this can promote the creation of more complex, multidimensional knowledge.

Publications21 February 2023

Growing people power: The Support. Don’t Punish 2022 Global Day of Action – Summary report

The Support. Don't Punish campaign offers an overview of activities carried out as part of the Global Day of Action in 2022, which in their own unique ways helped connect policymaking processes with realities on the ground, solidify people power, and challenge criminalisation at its core.

Publications16 February 2023

Legal Environment Scan: A drug user-led monitoring toolkit of legal and policy framework

INPUD offers a resource to develop recommendations for law and policy reform to remove barriers to access to essential HIV services for people who use drugs as well as to harm reduction and related health services.

Events

CND 66: Key issues and opportunities

Online

1 March 2023

The webinar will discuss key issues likely to structure the debates and draft resolutions, and present how IDPC network members have used this forum for their advocacy.

Events

16th Annual Conference of The International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP)

Leuven, Belgium

30 May 2023 - 1 June 2023

The sixteenth annual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) will be held in Leuven, Belgium, from 30 May – 01 June 2023, at the KU Leuven University.

News9 February 2023

Women assert their voices in conversations about drug use

The Narcofeminism Blog Competition awarded the work of three women discussing stigma, pleasure and drug user empowerment.

Publications1 February 2023

7th Brandenburg Forum on Drugs and Development Policies report

The Forum reunited government, UN and civil society experts to discuss development, health and human rights challenges in relation to drug control ahead of the 2024 mid-term review of implementation of the 2019 Political Declaration.

Publications1 February 2023

Recommendations for setting up online harm reduction services

The Eurasian Harm Reduction Association has published a helpful guide on launching or improving existing online harm-reduction services, adaptable to various key populations, including sex workers and people living with HIV.

Events

The role of researchers and media in responding to drug panics

Online

26 January 2023

This panel will explore how drug panics, and the way media responds, have impacted the criminalisation of people who use and sell drugs.

Events

VNGOC informal meeting

Online

8 February 2023

The meeting will serve to share updates regarding the upcoming 66th CND and the VNGOC Annual General Meeting and to discuss other current issues.

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