IDPC reflects on two decades of collective action and a year of resilience, highlighting advances in human rights, international drug policy reform and grassroots mobilisation, despite political backlash, shrinking civic space and funding cuts.
The Global Fund highlights these interventions' potential to expand treatment choice, reduce HIV and HCV transmission risks, and strengthen accessible, community-informed harm reduction services.
UNAIDS and partners call for sustained, locally owned action to tackle discrimination, expand harm reduction and strengthen the meaningful participation of people who use drugs.
WOLA documents how the US' lethal bombing campaign amounts to extrajudicial execution, has had little impact on cocaine trafficking, and demands an immediate end and accountability.
The Global Partnership on Drug Policies and Development reflects on ten years of the Brandenburg Forum and its contribution to more humane, development-oriented, evidence-based and rights-affirming drug policies.
Gilmour et al. find no statistically observable impact of Oregon’s drug decriminalisation policy on opioid overdose mortality, challenging claims that the reform caused the state’s rise in deaths.
IDPC discusses the Commission's post-consensus 'new normal' and how it creates opportunities for progress on harm reduction and reform amid growing divisions and threats to rights.
IDPC, CELS, HRI and WOLA warn that conflating drug trafficking with terrorism enables unlawful military action, weakens human rights protections and restricts civil society space.
The UNSG reviews progress towards realising the commitments set out in the 2021 Political Declaration and outlines the strategic directions for the world to achieve its goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
NAPUD explains how people who use drugs can identify their priorities and advocate for their inclusion in Global Fund Grant Cycle 8 funding requests and budgets.
UNAIDS warns that funding disruptions, punitive laws and attacks on human rights are placing decades of progress against HIV at risk, while setting out a path towards sustainable, country-owned and community-led responses.
