Civil society exposes punitive harms and rights violations, while urging a shift towards health, harm reduction, decriminalisation, justice reform, and sustainable livelihoods.
Youth RISE explains that current drug education, often focused on fear-mongering and punitive approaches, fails to equip young people with the knowledge and tools they need to stay safe.
The Forum urged periodic HRC resolutions, stronger UN coordination, an operational expert panel, and sustained harm reduction funding, highlighting Indigenous rights, decriminalisation, and civil society inclusion as key priorities.
The Harm Reduction Coalition and the Academy of Perinatal Harm Reduction offer a toolkit to support the health and well-being of pregnant people who use drugs and their families.
INPUD warns that abrupt US foreign aid cuts have devastated harm reduction services, leaving people who use drugs without life-saving care, triggering service collapse, job losses, and a looming human rights crisis.
YouthRISE Nigeria outlines Nigeria’s harm reduction response in the context of its legal framework, highlighting key policy gaps, institutional dynamics, and emerging opportunities for change.
DPA calls on the US to abandon drug war strategies and embrace a health and human rights-based approach, showing how global prohibition fuels violence, poverty, and overdose crises.
This publication offers contributions to the debate on land use and climate justice, shining a light on the dynamics arising from current drug policies in Brazil.
