The international conference highlighted the challenges faced by women who use drugs including poverty, discrimination and inadequate access to medical and social services.
The Strategic Advisory Group to The United Nations on HIV and Drug Use recognised the increased risk of HIV exposure faced by PWUD and the inadequate funding for harm reduction programmes.
This marks the first instance of a state approving the oral and nasal consumption - such as swallowing or snorting - of drugs in a safer consumption facility outside of Europe.
The new legal framework allows cannabis social clubs to grow enough cannabis to meet the demand of their member base, without exceeding 150 kilograms per year.
Since President Duterte came to power in June 2016, there have been thousands of killings as part of his government’s anti-drug campaign in the Philippines.
While governments world-wide celebrate the UN day against drugs and trafficking, most evidence shows that current drug control strategies have had little effect toward creating a "drug free world".
Duterte has explicitly approved violence that has led to thousands of extrajudicial executions, in the name of an anti-drug campaign. The number of deaths now exceeds those under the murderous rule of Ferdinand Marcos.
The United Nations Human Rights Council extended the term of Dr. Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions for three more years.
