The Congressional Health Committee in Chile have approved a bill that would legalise the cultivation of marijuana for private recreational or medicinal use, opening up the debate in the socially conservative country.
The director-general of the Corrections Department in Thailand has said that the government needs to amend laws and address the increasing number of incarcerated women of which a high number are related to suppressive drug policies in order to adhere to the UN's Bangkok rules.
The UN Human Rights Committee's calls in 2013 for Indonesia to stop executing prisoners for drug-related crimes did not deter Indonesia's actions which have been classified as an E grade, meaning that their actions go against the committee's recommendations.
A training was organised to ensure the full understanding access to anti-retroviral therapy for clients of the Balinese NGO Yakeba, to break existing stereotypes about limitations for outreach workers of harm reduction programme in their involvement into the ‘care and treatment field’.
CAHR partners launched a programme in Myanmar that addresses the growing challenges of everyday life which pushes local people towards cultivating opium as a means of survival.
President Obama discusses more ''productive'' and ''smarter'' drug policies with David Simon, the creator of ''The Wire'', a series which demonstrates the effects of drug policies on everyday life.
The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health and the Middle East and North Africa Harm Reduction Association (MENAHRA) launch Hepatitis B harm reduction campaign.
Evidence of the close relationship between drugs and development continues to be overlooked in policy moving toward the UN post-2015 agenda for international development.
