IDPC calls on the European Commission to ensure the next Strategy is balanced, evidence-based, and rights-centred, prioritising harm reduction, civil society participation, and policy innovation over punitive approaches.
UNSG António Guterres proposes a restructuring of drugs, development, human rights, and HIV bodies, raising questions about oversight, civil society participation, and programme continuity.
EHRA, alongside C-EHRN, EuroNPUD and DPNSEE, state that the exclusion, fragmentation, and underfunding of harm reduction and essential health services within Universal Health Coverage systems cause people who use drugs to experience disproportionately poor health outcomes across Europe.
UNDP charts a rights- and development-centred turn in drug policy, prioritising decriminalisation, harm reduction, equity-led transitions, and practical pathways to responsibly regulate some drug markets.
WHRIN's global campaign around the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women calls groups worldwide to join the 16 Days of Action with activities highlighting violence against women and gender diverse people who use drugs.
EHRA, Union for Equity and Health, and PULS urge the Committee to interrogate Moldova’s punitive drug policies, which criminalise people who use drugs, restrict health and employment outcomes, and deepen stigma.
The WHO ECDD reviews the coca leaf’s chemistry, pharmacology, and uses, noting potential therapeutic effects, low toxicity, and weak evidence of dependence potential.
IDPC and A la Orilla del Río highlight how prohibitionism continues to shape the lives of young people in the Colombian Amazon, where gaps between policy and practice perpetuate stigmatisation and deny rights.
Dickson-Gomez et al. show that punitive action by US police during overdose responses may increase overdose risk and decrease reliance on emergency services.
The CSFD calls for an EU Drugs Strategy that puts health, human rights and equity at its core — moving from political statements to real action, with civil society as a full partner.
Zuluaga Duque et al. reveal how coca substitution policies continue to undermine women’s autonomy by overlooking their conditions of exploitation and exclusion despite their centrality in cultivation.
HRI and LANPUD call for reform of punitive laws that fuel mass incarceration and violate rights, and for investment in health, harm reduction, and community leadership.
