Drug related violence

Publications1 April 2024

EU drug markets analysis 2024: key insights for policy and practice

EMCDDA and Europol raise concerns on the threats of highly potent synthetic substances and the need to invest in harm reduction approaches, as one of the policy options to address the drug situation in Europe.

News4 October 2023

US quietly strikes deal to send military to Ecuador amid drug cartel explosion

The agreement is made against the backdrop of soaring violence in Ecuador as well as a long history of US involvement in Latin American drug policy.

News2 October 2023

Australia: Drug-detection dogs are wrong more than right, data reveals

Police drug-detection dogs in NSW exhibit an alarming rate of false-positive detections for drugs among festival-goers, raising concerns about the effectiveness of strip-searches and other violent, degrading and humiliating policing responses to drugs.

News22 August 2023

Drug policy and pathways to peace in Colombia

As momentum for drug policy reform grows in Colombia, the growers of northern Cauca insist on a clear demand: that profits from legal regulation do not go to armed groups or big business, but to the growers themselves.

Publications22 August 2023

Youth response to the 2023 World Drug Report

The Paradigma Youth Coalition present their response to the 2023 World Drug Report, emphasising the importance of involving young people in shaping progressive drug policies with evidence-based approaches, inclusivity and harm reduction at their core.

News16 August 2023

Language matters: Is my country a 'narco-state'?

By flattening the complex relationship between state actors, citizens and globalised informal drug economies, the term often serves to fuel stigma, harmful stereotypes and further violence.

News31 July 2023

Marginalising key populations impacting efforts to end HIV/AIDS epidemic

Following the release of the UNAIDS report titled 'The path that ends AIDS', this article underscores how ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic necessitates drug decriminalisation.

News3 July 2023

Prisons turned into killing fields in Iran as drug-related executions almost triple this year

The cruel and alarming surge in drug-related executions in Iran serves as a stark reminder that the death penalty violates the right to life and should be opposed in all cases without exception.

Publications9 June 2023

CHECK magazine - Women who use drugs - 3rd issue

EHRA publish their latest edition of CHECK magazine, focusing on the disproportionate levels of stigmatisation and discrimination that women who use drugs face as a result of existing gender inequalities and prohibitionist policies.

Publications9 June 2023

Resistance and alternatives to the ‘wars’ on civic space in the Philippines

The Civic Futures Initiative explore (among other 'wars') the impact that Duterte’s oppressive and securitised 'war on drugs' in the Philippines had on the civic space of those who advocate against the drug policy and document abuses under it.

News2 May 2023

Is the Philippines ready for harm reduction?

The Philippines' brutal war on drugs has not deterred harm reduction advocates from implementing life-saving measures such as syringe exchanges and methadone treatment.

Publications30 November 2022

Killing in the name of the war on drugs: a special section from the 1st Asian regional meeting of the ISSDP

This collection of essays puts into sharp relief that state-sanctioned and extrajudicial killings in the name of drug control have less to do with preserving cultural values and more to do with preserving political power.

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