IDPC, CELS, HRI and WOLA warn that conflating drug trafficking with terrorism enables unlawful military action, weakens human rights protections and restricts civil society space.
The UNSG reviews progress towards realising the commitments set out in the 2021 Political Declaration and outlines the strategic directions for the world to achieve its goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
Bridge, Nougier and Barrett reflect on the fractures exposed at the 69th session of the CND and argue that the collapse of consensus is creating new space for harm reduction, human rights and reform.
TNI explores viable ways to safeguard the genetic resources, cultural heritage and Indigenous knowledge of the coca leaf, as well as to protect legal markets from risks of misappropriation, biopiracy and corporate capture.
This roundtable explores how punitive drug policies are fuelling digital systems of surveillance, exclusion and institutional violence, and how cross-movement advocacy can advance harm reduction, accountability and safety.
The Working Group on Women and Incarceration in Latin America analyses how the fight against organised crime affects women in contact with prison systems, as well as their families and children.
PRI and TIJ discuss how punitive drug policies continue to drive imprisonment, while incarcerated people who use drugs face severe gaps in evidence-based harm reduction.
27 UN human rights experts from 19 mandates call for a fundamental shift towards decriminalisation, harm reduction, evidence-based regulation, care and support, warning that punitive and militarised drug policies continue to drive serious human rights violations.
IDPC joins this civil society call for the UN’s main drug control entities to unequivocally condemn the use of the death penalty for drug offences and ensure that international cooperation does not contribute to further executions.
IJSC and HRI launch a new report examining how international aid for drug control programmes may contribute to the imposition of death sentences for drug offences.
Drug offences account for almost half of all confirmed executions worldwide, despite failing to meet the international law threshold of the 'most serious crimes'.
IDPC offers recommendations on how the Expert Panel’s mandate should be interpreted, and proposes eight structural issues around which the Panel
could frame its deliberations and final report
