HRI reports a sharp rise in executions for drug offences in 2025, exposing the continued reliance on punitive drug policies and their devastating human rights impacts.
The WHO’s decision to keep coca leaf under strict controls highlights weak legal reasoning, disregard for scientific evidence, and ongoing harms to Indigenous rights.
The VNGOC and 125 co-signing organisations have issued an open letter to the UN, calling for urgent reforms to address procedural barriers that effectively exclude civil society.
In a first for the Commission on the Status of Women, the text explicitly recognises women in prison, opening possibilities for justice for nearly one million women incarcerated globally.
IDPC and civil society partners highlight the deep-rooted racial inequalities in drug law enforcement, urging for reforms to dismantle systemic harm and discrimination.
UN experts say that Saudi Arabia’s use of the death penalty for drug offences violates international law, highlighting serious due process violations and discriminatory impacts on foreign nationals.
The INCB examines mounting pressures on the global drug control system, from synthetic drugs and access to medicines to increasing fragmentation within the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
UN experts warn that the growing number of women imprisoned globally is driven largely by punitive drug policies and socio-economic inequalities, urging States to prioritise alternatives to detention and gender-responsive justice reforms ahead of CSW70.
Outgoing IDPC Executive Director, Ann Fordham reflects on the evolution of global drug policy, the growth of civil society advocacy, and the urgent need to defend hard-won progress.
