Human rights

News11 December 2025

"We refuse": Health workers against involuntary care

The joint letter warns that expanding involuntary treatment in British Columbia would violate medical ethics, endanger patients, and deepen human rights harm, calling instead for evidence-based, voluntary, community-led care.

News11 December 2025

INCB statement for Human Rights Day 2025

The INCB warns against extrajudicial responses to drug offences and calls for rights-based, proportionate, and health-focused drug control.

News11 December 2025

Dance for freedom: Rave revolution in front of the Hungarian Parliament

Thousands gathered to protest Hungary's escalating police harassment of musicians, clubs and young people.

News10 December 2025

New EU Drug Strategy risks undermining health, harm reduction and human rights - Joint letter by 84 civil society organisations

We join 83 organisations urging EU Member States to revise the proposed Drug Strategy and reject a trafficking-only Action Plan, to ensure harm reduction, health and human rights remain central to EU drug policy.

Blog10 December 2025

A lost five years? New leadership on the horizon as Ghada Waly departs UNODC

Ghada Waly’s quiet exit masks the loud problems consuming UNODC, heightening the urgency for new leadership to reset the agency’s course.

News8 December 2025

A critical failure of a system still mired in the past - IDPC joint statement at the CND Reconvened 68th Session

By ignoring Indigenous knowledge and human rights impacts, the coca leaf review reveals a system unable —or unwilling— to shed colonial bias.

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.

News21 November 2025

Ethical communication on gender-based violence and substance use

This webinar by Dianova spotlighted how ethical, stigma-free communication can reshape public understanding of gender-based violence and substance use.

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

Harnessing international advocacy for national progress: regional and international advocacy tactics for civil society to influence national policies

Online

18 November 2025

A RESILIENT project workshop offering tools, case studies, and practice for civil society in EECA to use regional and international advocacy to influence national policy and protect civic space.

Publications12 November 2025

From forest to dust: Socioeconomic and environmental impacts of the prohibition of the coca and cocaine production chain in the Amazon Basin and Brazil

Intersecção discusses how drug prohibition fuels deforestation, violence, and inequality across the region, linking the 'war on drugs' to the global climate crisis and calling for ecological harm reduction and rights-based regulation.

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.

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