The event aims to analyse the impact of measures adopted to contain COVID-19 on the rights and welfare of those experiencing social marginality and other forms of social-economic disadvantage.
The forum seeks to assist the government of Sierra Leone in its process of harmonising and reforming its drug laws and rooting them in human rights, public health and sustainable development.
IDPC and TNI argue that the WHO’s recommendations will be an opportunity for African States to further decolonise drug control and strengthen the legal basis for emerging medicinal cannabis programmes.
WADPN has provided people who use drugs with credible information, protective equipment, food items and hygienic paraphernalia, whilst urging enforcement officers to reduce raids and incarcerations.
HRI, SANPUD and Metzineres underscore the importance of alternatives to incarceration and the availability of humane, accessible and non-stigmatising services in prisons and the community.
The webinar will discuss the impact of lockdown restrictions on vulnerable groups and provide recommendations for an appropriate response to the pandemic.
The webinar organised by APCOF aims at finding advocacy opportunities to encourage African states to adopt alternatives to the detention of poor and marginalised people for minor offences.
