EVAWUD is a global campaign held during the 16 Days of Activism (25 Nov–10 Dec), demanding an end to violence against women and gender diverse people who use drugs through human rights–based, gender-responsive, and harm reduction–oriented drug policies.
IDPC calls on the European Commission to ensure the next Strategy is balanced, evidence-based, and rights-centred, prioritising harm reduction, civil society participation, and policy innovation over punitive approaches.
International cooperation through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations presents an opportunity to consistently align regional drug policy with human rights standards.
Punitive drug policies in ASEAN have failed to achieve ‘drug-free’ goals, while harm reduction offers a pragmatic, rights-based alternative already showing results in the region — albeit torpedoed by Singapore's hardline stance.
The 60th Session is an opportunity to bring attention to the impact of drug control policies on human rights worldwide, with the death penalty, violations of international humanitarian law, forced disappearances, and discussions on arbitrary detention taking place.
C-EHRN urges the European Commission to reconsider its decision to eliminate EU4Health operating grants, warning that it endangers vital public health and human rights protections.
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.
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.
124 NGOs from 48 countries condemn Hungary’s 2025 drug war crackdown on people who use drugs, harm reduction services, and civil society, calling for urgent Europe-wide action.