Um manifesto favorável à descriminalização de usuários de drogas, assinado por mais de 100 líderes evangélicos, foi entregue ao presidente da Câmara dos Deputados, Henrique Eduardo Alves.
LEAHN launched a statement of support at the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna gathering over 4,000 signatures in favour of harm reduction.
The bill needs to make it clear that its objective is to promote harm-reduction and health, as well as the decriminalisation of drug possesion for personal use.
EHRN, UNODC and ACUNS organised an informal consultation on violence against women who use drugs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in the framework of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
The National AIDS Control Support Project aims to reduce new HIV infections by expanding the coverage of prevention interventions to high risk groups over the next five years.
A harm reduction approach should include friendly and objective information regarding different substances that are usually consumed via methods other than injecting.
The letter sent by 145 organisations to Obama and Mesoamerican leaders calls for a shift away from the failed militarised security policies which have exacerbated violence and human rights violations.
