RightsCon brings together global civil society, policymakers, technologists and advocates to confront urgent challenges at the intersection of human rights and technology, shaping strategies for a more open, secure and rights-respecting digital future.
Schneider et al. argue that criminalising sex work and drug use forces young sex workers into danger, undermining health and rights, and call for decriminalisation, safe supply and peer-led harm reduction.
Deep budget cuts to the UN’s human rights pillar will severely weaken the organisation’s ability to prevent abuses, protect defenders and support human rights.
Perseus Strategies and allies call on the UN to replace stigmatising criminal justice language with person-centred terminology to advance a human rights-based approach to justice, dignity and social reintegration.
By recommending that coca remain in the most restrictive category, the WHO has reinforced a decades-old, colonial classification that undermines scientific research and Indigenous rights.
Amid shrinking global health budgets, the Global Fund secured $11.34 billion—well under its $18 billion goal—to continue the fight against AIDS, TB and malaria.
Harm Reduction International discusses a 'global paradox' in which growing policy recognition and community resilience collide with devastating funding cuts that now threaten decades of harm reduction progress.
