The International Indigenous Peoples Movement on Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL) releases statement condemning the extra-judicial killings in Bangladesh and calls for the Government to uphold human rights.
Zimbabwe's Minister of Health and Child Welfare announces that the farming of cannabis is still permitted along with the licensed processing and marketing of cannabis for medicinal purposes.
Amidst the Philippine's war on drugs, President Duterte has promoted police officers involved in extrajudicial killings and torture practices, an action Human Rights Watch deems "a cruel affront to the families of victims."
In a joint statement released on 28 May 2018, Myanmar opium farmers demand the Government to stop to the arrests and criminalizing of opium farmers and instead implement development programs that provide services and assistance to farmers in poverty whose fields are constantly being eradicated.
With a goal of promoting harm reduction measures and increasing community awareness, OSIWA utilized the power of the cinema in order to educate locals in Senegal on drug addiction and illuminate the personal stories of users.
The legalisation of drugs and regulated drug markets in Latin America may be the future to ending the War on Drugs and decreasing the loss of life associated with the illicit drug trade.
