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Press Releases2 December 2025

WHO upholds coca leaf ban, defying evidence and ignoring Indigenous rights

Despite clear evidence and contravening Indigenous rights, WHO recommends the harshest scheduling for the coca leaf, upholding racist and colonial underpinnings of its ban.

Publications1 December 2025

Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response - 2025 World AIDS Day report

UNAIDS examines the threats facing the HIV response, including funding cuts, rising criminalisation, and growing gender-based violence, urging bold action to safeguard progress and build sustainable, community-led systems of care.

Events

The ‘narcoterrorism’ threat: Exploring avenues to uphold human rights amidst a new 'war on drugs'

Online

9 December 2025

As the 'narcoterrorism' rhetoric is weaponised to intensify the 'war on drugs', this event explores its human rights consequences and the mechanisms needed to ensure accountability and protect international law.

Publications14 November 2025

Report of the Special Rapporteur: Collective action and human solidarity facing an existential threat

Romero outlines how the dismantling of global aid and civic participation pathways poses an existential threat to the UN's goals of rights-based governance.

Events

Rethinking coca: Indigenous knowledge, science, and international drug policy

Vienna, Austria

3 December 2025

Join researchers, policymakers and Andean community voices at CEU Vienna to explore coca’s cultural, scientific and political dimensions — and what the WHO’s review means for global drug governance.

Publications3 November 2025

Neo‑colonialism and financing for the war on drugs: a review of current policy and recommendations for countries in the global north

Daniels et al. explore how financing, technical aid, and corporate interests perpetuate neo-colonial power through drug control, calling to dismantle these systems in favour of rights-based reform.

Publications3 November 2025

Toolkit for ensuring rights-based and ethical use of digital technologies in HIV and health programmes

UNDP provides guidance to ensure that digital technologies for HIV and health are used ethically, protect human rights, and advance equity in the digital age.

Events

AIDS 2026 - 26th International AIDS conference

Rio de Janeiro

25 July 2026 - 30 July 2026

AIDS 2026 in Rio de Janeiro will unite global leaders, communities, and people living with HIV to rethink, rebuild, and rise amid an unprecedented funding crisis for the HIV response.

Events

Harm reduction for social development: Strengthening health, workability, and inclusion

Online

4 November 2025 - 4 November 2025

This webinar positions harm reduction as a strategic pathway for cross-sector development, improving climate, health, and socio-economic outcomes.

IDPC in the Media20 October 2025

The global war on drugs as authoritarian statecraft and its human rights costs

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News20 October 2025

60th session of UN Human Rights Council: Joint statement on death penalty and drug policy

IDPC joins global leaders to deliver a joint statement condemning the death penalty for drug-related offences, recognising recent reforms, and advocating for greater change.

News16 October 2025

Repairing the machinery - IDPC statement at the CND thematic discussions on drug policy commitments

IDPC joined this year’s CND thematic discussions to call for bold, evidence-based reform — urging governments to support the new expert panel reviewing the UN drug control system and ensure civil society’s full participation.

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