President Maithripala Sirisena has promised he will hang at least one drug dealer before his tenure ends after a 43 year long moratorium on capital punishment.
Whilst WHO member states aim to eliminate hepatitis C by 2030, interviews with 'at risk' individuals suggest that insufficient awareness of the illness and a lack of health facilities act as barriers to these ambitious targets.
Harm reduction workers in Afghanistan face an unjust paradox: Despite providing key support for people who use drugs and people living with HIV, they are often excluded from the public health community.
This year's exchange will feature a large variety of discussion and workshops, including an IDPC workshop, on various thematic areas linked to access to justice.
The letter, co-signed by 58 organizations, calls on the President of Sri Lanka to do everything in his power to stop executions in Sri Lanka and consign the death penalty to the history books.
The video advocacy training covers the whole spectrum of video advocacy, including video advocacy theory, camera handling, interview techniques, editing, and distribution.
This participatory workshop will offer a space for experienced campaigners in Asia to reflect on advocacy achievements, identify and prioritise pending challenges, and devise context-specific strategies for expanding the impact and reach of the Support. Don’t Punish campaign.
This meeting in Hong Kong aims to provide a multi-disciplinary platform for participants to assess the gap between rights and practice implementation of drug policies in Asia.
IDPC evaluates the impacts of drug policies implemented in Asia over the past decade, assessing progress made towards international and regional goals and concluding on the need to move away from the damaging drug-free approach.
IDPC outlines the key drug policy developments in India since the UNGASS Outcome Document was adopted in 2016, which highlights health and human rights concerns in relation to both drugs and drug policies.
Sirisena follows in Duterte's footsteps as Sri Lanka announces plans to bring back the death sentence for drug dealers, with 1,299 inmates already on death row.
