Kammersgaard highlights how existing rationalities and practices associated with prohibition often remain intact in decriminalisation proposals, despite a push towards health and human rights.
CGHE and INHSU Prisons note that persons who are incarcerated experience the highest burdens of HCV globally and should therefore have the right to access HCV services, but they too often face systematic discrimination.
The EMCDDA present their findings of the largest European project to date in the emerging science of wastewater analysis, conducted in over 100 European cities and towns to explore the drug-taking habits of people who live in them.
WHRIN and ICW call for decriminalisation and the promotion of women's voices in decision-making forums, among many other recommendations, to address the challenges faced by women who live with HIV and use drugs.
IDPC sheds light on key political wins including in relation to countering racial discrimination in drug policy, recognising the importance of harm reduction for the right to health, protecting Indigenous rights, and promoting engagement by UN human rights bodies in drug policy debates.
UNODC provides insights into a booming market, highlighting a 35% increase in the global production of cocaine following an initial slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Czechia stresses the importance of an evidence-based, integrated, balanced drug policies rooted in the freedom of citizens, the protection of human rights, dignity and the rule of law.
Ghana discusses the first ever National Dialogue on the International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Policy, including identifying human rights priorities and integrating them in the national plans for reform.
HRI's twelfth report documents the drastic increase of drug-related executions that have taken place over the course of 2022, the inadequate responses of institutional actors, and the robust resistance of civil society.
The INCB reviews the functioning of the international drug control system, dedicating a thematic chapter to the analysis of the trend to legalise the non-medical use of cannabis.
The ICJ, with UNAIDS and the OHCHR, outline a human rights-based approach to laws criminalising conduct in relation to sex, drug use, HIV, sexual and reproductive health, homelessness and poverty.
Pamplin et al. argue that the persistence of a broader, structurally racist environment of criminalisation undermines the public health–oriented policy changes made in some US states through 'Good Samaritan Laws'.
