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Publications17 July 2025

5th Brandenburg Forum in Geneva: Expanding the conversation on the human rights implications of drug policy - Meeting report

The Forum urged periodic HRC resolutions, stronger UN coordination, an operational expert panel, and sustained harm reduction funding, highlighting Indigenous rights, decriminalisation, and civil society inclusion as key priorities.

News17 July 2025

From the roots up: The Support. Don’t Punish campaign’s lifetime evaluation 2013-2023

Drawing on insights from over 200 partners, the campaign’s evaluation explores how Support. Don’t Punish has fostered the development of a global movement capable of shifting narratives, mobilising communities, and sparking change for rights-based, harm-reducing laws, policies and practices.

Blog10 July 2025

A future on our own terms: The 2025 Support. Don’t Punish Global Day of Action

For the 2025 Global Day of Action, thousands took action in 262 cities across 80 countries — demanding policies that ensure access to systems of care and support, not punishment.

News10 July 2025

'Changing the current drug policy regime has become a life cause for me' – An interview with Colombia’s ambassador-at-large for drug policy, Laura Gil

Colombia’s Ambassador Laura Gil reflects on challenging the global drug regime, breaking taboos, and building hope for a post-Prohibition future — one coalition at a time.

Publications10 July 2025

2025 Global AIDS Update — AIDS, crisis and the power to transform

UNAIDS warns that a global funding crisis threatens decades of HIV progress, despite the resilience of communities sustaining gains and domestic innovation.

Publications9 July 2025

World Drug Report 2025

UNODC links rising drug use, environmental harm, and drug-related crime to global instability, but fails to identify the need for a paradigm shift.

Events

15th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

25 April 2026 - 30 April 2026

The UN Crime Congress will take place in April 2026 in Abu Dhabi, focusing on justice, sustainability, and digital challenges, with broad, inclusive participation and regional preparations starting in 2025.

News9 July 2025

Historic change is underway for rethinking global drug policy

The recent landmark resolution at CND, mandating an independent review panel, signals momentum for drug policy reform centred on health and rights.

Blog3 July 2025

Same fight, new arena: Mobilising expertise in times of regression

As panic and geopolitics drive drug and bordering policy, harm reduction advocates find new ground at the UN — mobilising evidence, resisting disinformation, and taking the fight for rights to a global stage.

Blog26 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.

News26 June 2025

2025 World Drug Day: UNODC and CND must take urgent action to end unlawful use of the death penalty for drug-related offences

On 2025 World Drug Day and Support. Don’t Punish Global Day of Action, 70 organizations call upon the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to condemn the use of the death penalty from drug related offences. In this joint statement, the signatories demand that human rights safeguards are implemented to uphold international law and standards.

Events

International Overdose Awareness Day 2025

Every August 31, International Overdose Awareness Day unites communities worldwide to raise awareness, spark action, and demand change.

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