Subject

Human rights and social justice

RightsCon 2025: Taipei

RightsCon 2025: Taipei

Taipei and Online
24 February 2025 - 27 February 2025
RightsCon 2025 aims to build strategies and drive forward change toward a more free, open, and connected digital world.
7 March 2024
The coloniality of drug prohibition

The coloniality of drug prohibition

Dertadian explores how prohibitionist policies serve as a colonial tool and calls to centre the experiences and knowledges of Indigenous and colonised peoples in drug policy scholarship.
12 November 2023
A roadmap for cannabis equity in Canada to inform the legislated review of the Cannabis Act

A roadmap for cannabis equity in Canada to inform the legislated review of the Cannabis Act

The Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation outlines how social responsibility and equity can be enhanced within Canadian cannabis legislation, emphasising the inclusion of underrepresented racialised people and genders, reparations for the harms of cannabis prohibition through reinvestment of taxes, and amnesty for previous cannabis convictions.
1 November 2023
Building Black feminist visions to end the drug war

Building Black feminist visions to end the drug war

Interrupting Criminalization, Drug Policy Alliance, and In Our Names Network advance a Black feminist approach to ending the war on drugs by centring the experiences of Black women, girls, and trans and gender-nonconforming people.
25 September 2023
Protecting our communities - A toolkit

Protecting our communities - A toolkit

Drug Policy Alliance underscore how chronic underinvestment in public services and the criminalisation of social issues have fuelled several concurrent crises, calling for increased investment in jobs, education, housing, and health care.