WHRIN launches 16-day period of global advocacy to demonstrate support for action and policy that prioritise human rights, gender awareness, and harm reduction.
WHRIN and Talking Drugs highlight the importance of gender-specific ketamine harm reduction, calling for development of tailored services, collaboration with support programs for women and gender-diverse people and further research into ketamine's varied effects.
IDPC joins sister organisations in calling for the decriminalisation of activities related to drug use and sex work, as well as the legal regulation of substances, to tackle marginalisation.
Stoicescu et al. conclude the intersection of intimate partner violence and police sexual violence was associated with a nearly fourfold increase in non-fatal overdose.
IDPC and other organisations encourage the Special Rapporteurs to acknowledge the harmful effects of criminalising drug use and sex work in relation to the policing of people living in poverty in public spaces.
Despite increasing incarceration of women, and women disproportionately imprisoned for drug-related offences, the stories and experiences of women sentenced to death for drug offences are mostly unheard.