The site inventories agreed language to defend evidence-based and rights-affirming responses to HIV and related sexual reproductive health challenges.
The 'zero tolerance' approach directs violence against poor and marginalised communities, wholly neglecting the real challenges of a growing informal economy.
Drug-using populations are still facing many challenges, with lack of empathy, inaccessibility of naloxone, and health consequences following non-fatal overdose creating significant barriers to addressing overdose risks.
Defence lawyers have been struck with onerous fines and some defendants have had to represent themselves, in death penalty cases often incompatible with international law.
The recommendations by the Howard enquiry, an extensive fact-finding mission into evidence-based responses to methamphetamine use, included decriminalisation.
