IDPC’s designation as an ‘undesirable organisation’ exemplifies Russia’s crackdown on civil society and human rights and, while it will not deter our work, it poses serious risks for people in Russia who engage with or share it.
Health, justice and civil society actors examined how Ghana can turn Act 1019 into effective harm reduction services, alternatives to punishment, and rights-based practices.
As IDPC marks its twentieth anniversary, the Board celebrates Ann Fordham’s transformative leadership and welcomes Jamie Bridge and Marie Nougier to guide the network’s next chapter.
After nearly 18 years at the helm of IDPC, Ann Fordham shares a farewell message celebrating the courage, solidarity and joy of the drug policy reform movement.
The REFORM project demonstrated how community leadership, legal empowerment and media engagement can create mutually reinforcing pathways to advance health and rights-based drug policies.
The publication provides compelling evidence of the failures of punitive drug policies, but sorely lacks engagement with harm reduction, decriminalisation, responsible regulation and other evidence-based alternatives.
IDPC welcomes Mac Busz and Alex Lamb Guevara to its Board of Directors, while thanking Rupert Markland for seven years of wise, dedicated and generous leadership.
The new US drug strategy revives 'war on drugs' rhetoric, sidelining harm reduction, human rights, and evidence in favour of securitisation, militarisation, and counterproductive abstinence-led approaches.
In her final CND as IDPC ED, Ann Fordham reflects on a historic shift: the recognition of harm reduction in UN drug policy debates, amid rising geopolitical tensions, fractured consensus, and a multilateral system under strain.
Thailand’s February election could reshape drug policy, provided the next government advances evidence- and human rights–based approaches, expands harm reduction, and moves beyond policing-led responses.
As drug policy reform faces renewed repression and securitisation worldwide, 2026 will test whether evidence, human rights and community leadership can still reshape a system under strain — and where the next openings for change may emerge.
