ICEERS will be speaking at Human Rights Council sessions on the importance of drug policy and human rights and how efforts can be made to provide protections for Indigenous groups and their cultural practices.
At a symposium on the future of Czech drug policy the national drug coordinator Jindřich Vobořil presented the orientation and tasks of the new National Drug Policy Strategy for the period 2019-2027.
Eurasian Key Populations Health Network opens request for proposals for 2018 Small grants program "Gender and HIV" in order to improve health, inclusion and social wellbeing for Key Populations in Eastern European and Central Asian.
Due to the prevalence of cannabis use in Switzerland and the desire to ensure safety in what is being consumed, the Swiss government has decided to support scientific trials on cannabis.
A key member of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's cabinet, Olga Sánchez, is in favour of decriminalising recreational marijuana and is a sign of future drug policy to come in Mexico where the war of drugs has caused enormous destruction.
A new drug policy in South Australia moves to impose even harsher penalties on cannabis consumption, a decision that has historically failed and will have large consequences.
UNODC has partnered with Indonesia to assist the country in their move from the practice of imprisoning drug users to instead rehabilitating them in an effort to decrease prison populations and address drug use as a public health topic.
The 2018 World Drug Report outlines the need for gender specific drug policies that address long term trauma and the stigmas that female drug users face.
