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24 November 2010

EMCDDA launches 2010 Report

The EMCDDA annual report is the agency's flagship publication, and provides a wealth of information and analysis on consumption, production and distribution trends, including sophisticated new methods in the trafficking of cocaine; changes in the stimulant market; widespread domestic cannabis production; and the expansion and diversification of the available range of legal highs.

24 November 2010

Advancing the sexual and reproductive health and human rights of injecting drug users living with HIV

The policy briefing focusing on injecting drug users seeks to discover the key needs and rights of this community around sexual and reproductive health.

24 November 2010

From the mountaintops: what the world can learn from drug policy change in Switzerland

This report looks at how evidence-based services such as heroin treatment, injection rooms, and needle exchange can lower HIV infection rates, improve health outcomes, and lower crime rates, based on the example of Switzerland.

27 October 2010

Comparison of methods and resulting drug use prevalence estimates of health surveys versus drug surveys methods

This report summarises the insights gained from a literature review, a review of available data and information collected in a survey of individual national experts on GPS key indicators within the Reitox network. The survey aimed to explore specialist stances on the issue of varying survey contexts and also to find a possible internationally valid scientific agreement that would temporarily replace a costly scientific exploration.

27 October 2010

IDPC Briefing Paper - The need for increased transparency: The country correspondence of the INCB

This paper highlights the concerns raised by the lack of transparency in the INCB’s work, in particular regarding the current practice of the Board’s country correspondence with member states.

27 October 2010

IDPC Briefing Paper - Drug policy and development: How action against illicit drugs impacts on the Millennium Development Goals

This short paper highlights some of the impacts of current repressive and/or narrow drug control policies on broader development goals.

26 October 2010

Annual Thematic Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to health

The report is the clearest statement to date from within the UN system about the harms that drug policies have caused and the need for a fundamental shift in drug policy.

26 October 2010

OAS Report - Establishing drug treatment courts: strategies, experiences and preliminary outcomes

This report describes the programme ‘City Partnerships on the Improvement of Drug Treatment’, through which the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) has supported courts throughout Latin America and the Caribbean to set up treatment alternatives to incarceration for drug-dependent offenders.

26 October 2010

Collateral costs: Incarceration's effect on economic morbidity

Drawn disproportionately from the poorly educated and the marginally employed, the millions of people in American jails and prisons faced poor mobility prospects before they entered the prison walls. With so many people and families affected, and with such concentration of the impacts among young, poorly educated men from disadvantaged neighborhoods, discussions of mobility in America must include reference to crime policy and the criminal justice system.

26 October 2010

The death penalty for drug offences and international support for drug enforcement

The purpose of this briefing is to highlight the dangers associated with funding drug control activities in countries with capital drug laws as detailed in IHRA’s report 'Complicity or abolition?', and to provide recommendations to donor-countries.

26 October 2010

Abused and afraid in Ciudad Juarez - An analysis of human rights violations by the military in Mexico

The report focuses on human rights violations that occurred in Ciudad Juarez in the context of Joint Operation Chihuahua, which began in March 2008. The five cases described involve acts of torture, forced disappearance and sexual harassment of women by Mexican soldiers.

26 October 2010

WHO, UNAIDS, UNICEF Progress Report 2010 - Towards universal access: Scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector

Despite continuing progress in expanding access to HIV testing, prevention, treatment and care in low and middle income countries, global targets are unlikely to be achieved in 2010. This will have important implications for a range of Millennium Development Goals.