At a side event of the recent G8 meeting of Foreign Ministers, the US envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, described what seems like a significant shift in US tactics towards opium poppy cultivation and trafficking in Afghanistan.
INPUD has been blogging in their role as NGO observers to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB). Check out their blog which also covers other international events and conferences of relevant to drug policy.
As the UN launches the 2009 World Drug Report, more than 40 international groups and experts worldwide today issued a call to action that presses governments to adopt a humane approach to drug policy. IDPC has signed the call as a coalition.
The report was launched in Washington, D.C., by UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa and the newly appointed Director of the United States Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske.
IHRA's new online version of the Global State of Harm Reduction is now available. This onlne tool provides up-to-date information on harm reduction politices and programmes around the world.
Tom Lloyd was invited to give this statement at the end of the formal plenary of the 8th meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (HONLEA), Europe in Vienna.
IDPC held a post-CND strategy meeting in the margins of the IHRA conference, where present IDPC members met to reflect on the outcomes of the High Level Meeting in March in Vienna and discuss next steps for international advocacy.
Harm Reduction 2009 on 'harm reduction and human rights' took place in Bangkok from April 20-24th and brought together around 1,000 delegates from 80 countries around the world.
AHRN and CDC Taiwan collaborated to produce a short film on harm reduction and services in Taiwan. The final project was launched at a special satellite session at the 20th International Harm Reduction Conference in Bangkok in April 2009.