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375 civil society groups, including prominent human rights NGOs, from across the globe have called on UN drug control authorities to urge an immediate stop to the extrajudicial killings of suspected drug offenders in the Philippines.
Civil society organisations denounce the absence of harm reduction in the first draft of the UNGASS outcome document represents a step backwards from previously agreed language.
Unlike other countries from the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia is experimenting with drug policy in order to improve the public health response to drug use.
Public discussion of harm reduction in Poland is stuck in the 1990s. Read what needs to be done based on the realities described by Polish drug policy experts, to save lives and lower the costs of treating users.
This video by Drug Reporter offers an overview of the 2015 International Drug Policy Reform Conference, including ideas on the future course of the fight for reform.
Criminalising people who use drugs doesn't work, and it harms our society. HCLU congratulates the UN drug agency for having prepared a paper which supports decriminalisation – and encourages the agency to endorse their own report.