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Drugs, Punitive Laws, Policies, Policing Practices, and HIV/AIDS
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| 1st December 2009
| To mark World AIDS Day 2009, IHRA and Human Rights Watch have issued a joint briefing note which urges governments worldwide to to reform punitive drug laws, disproportionate penalties, and harsh and discriminatory law enforcement practices which cause needless suffering to people living with HIV/AIDS and people who use drugs. The briefing note expresses concerns that existing policies may be driving people away from lifesaving HIV services – as well as impeding access to pain treatment for tens of millions of people who need it.
|  Click here to view the IHRA and Human Rights Watch briefing [PDF:116KB]
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What is Harm Reduction?: A Position Statement from the International Harm Reduction Association
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| 21st September 2009
| IHRA's Board of Directors and staff have released a detailed position statement defining the term ‘harm reduction’. The statement offers the following definition: "policies, programmes and practices that aim primarily to reduce the adverse health, social and economic consequences of the use of legal and illegal psychoactive drugs without necessarily reducing drug consumption". The statement also outlines a set of underlying principles which best describe this approach.
| Click here to view IHRA's ‘What Is Harm Reduction’ document [PDF:370KB]
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Addicted to News: A Guide to Responsible Reporting on Opioid Dependence and its Treatment
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| 15th September 2009
| IHRA – in partnership with the European Opiate Treatment Association, the South Eastern European Adriatic Addiction Treatment Network and Schering-Plough – have created a set of media guidelines to assist in the reporting of constructive, accurate and responsible information in the field of opioid dependence. This initiative aims to help journalists to better understand the issues around opioid dependence, strike a balance in their reporting to avoid stigmatisation, and help encourage a different perspective which communicates positive messages about drug treatments.
| Click here to view the ‘Addicted to News’ guide [PDF:1MB]
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Drugs, Harm Reduction and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
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| 20th April 2009
| Harm Reduction 2009: IHRA’s 20th International Conference (Bangkok)
| Youth RISE and IHRA asked youth researchers from every region of the world to tell us about the situation for young people who use drugs in their countries. Of course, every country - and even each city, town, and age group - reported different issues and patterns of use, there were commonalities. This briefing paper highlights some of the common themes and an approach to addressing them based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. A full report is due out later in 2009.
| Click here to view the briefing [PDF:571KB]
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The Global State of Harm Reduction
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Ten Reasons Why Access to Controlled Medicines is an Issue for CND
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Ten Reasons Why Human Rights is an Issue for the CND
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Ten Ways Drug Policy Affects Human Rights
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Network of Networks: Coherence Not Denial
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| 11th March 2009
| High-Level Segment of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (Vienna)
| The ‘Network of Networks’ – an informal coalition of harm reduction networks from around the world – came together to create this brochure for the High-Level Segment of the 52nd Session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), where country delegations from around the world came together to review the last decade of international drug control, and plan for the next ten years. The brochure questions why CND continuously fails to support and endorse harm reduction when this approach is approved and promoted by the UN General Assembly, UNAIDS, UNODC, the World Health Organization and others.
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Click here to view the Network of Networks brochure [PDF:260KB]
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Ten Reasons Why the Human Rights Council Must Address Drug Policy
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| 10th March 2009
| 10th Session of the Human Rights Council
| This fact sheet – one of three launched by IHRA, Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Institute – describes ten main reasons why the Human Rights Council – and the UN human rights mechanisms in general – must pay more attention to international drug control policies and the impact that they have on the human rights of people who use drugs.
| Click here to view the fact sheet [PDF:321KB]
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Network of Networks: Resourcing Harm Reduction on a Global Basis
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| 28th January 2009
| Harm Reduction Donors Conference (Amsterdam)
| The ‘Network of Networks’ – an informal coalition of harm reduction networks from around the world – came together to create this brochure for a meeting of key harm reduction donor organisations in the Netherlands. The brochure makes recommendations to donors around the issues facing harm reduction advocates: that the funding for harm reduction must be proportionate to the impact that drug use has on the global HIV epidemic; that capacity needs to be increased in order to deliver the necessary services; and that civil society capacity also needs to be increased in terms of advocacy and networking.
| Click here to view the Network of Networks brochure [PDF:338KB]
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