EHRN's Regional Technical Advisory Group is reviewing the expenditure and costs of harm reduction services, as well as their adequacy to meet the needs of people who use drugs.
Too little attention has been given in the debate so far to the potential consequences for future scheduling decisions, as this would set a precedent to add substances to the treaty schedules bypassing WHO's expert advice.
Commemorating International Women’s Day, EHRN gives the results of the first year of the Campaign “Women Against Violence” and launch the second year, the "year of dialogue".
In 2009 the national government publicly declared that its drug users needed evidence-based treatment options. Tanzania’s Ministry of Health approved a comprehensive plan to help prevent and treat heroin dependence.
Residents and visitors to the city over the age of 21 can possess as much as 2oz (56g) of cannabis, and may grow a few plants at home. Buying and selling the drug remains illegal, as does smoking it in public.
Many countries are distancing themselves from the failed War on Drugs, by adopting drug policy reforms that are focusing on human rights, and public health.
The International Reporting Program traveled to Ukraine, Uganda and India to find out, and to document the human toll of the human rights crisis created by the lack of access to essential medicines.
An increasing number of Slovak non-governmental and ministerial experts have come to recognise the validity of evidence from abroad underpinning the success of non-punitive drug policy approaches in other parts of the European Union.