Sign The Vienna Declaration
The criminalisation of illicit drug users is fuelling the HIV epidemic and has resulted in overwhelmingly negative health and social consequences. A full policy reorientation is needed. Sign The Vienna Declaration.
Harm Reduction 2011 Conference in Beirut
IHRA's 22nd Annual International Conference 2011 will take place in Beirut, Lebanon April 3-7, 2011. Since 1990, these events have become the key forum for the dissemination of harm reduction ideas and practice, and have helped to put harm …
Complicity or Abolition? The Death Penalty and International Support for Drug Enforcement
In May 2010 the International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) published a survey of countries retaining the death penalty for drug offences. The report identified thirty-two jurisdictions with legislation prescribing capital punishment for …
IHRA launches '3 Cents' report
IHRA's new '3 cents' report shows the small amount of money being invested in harm reduction. It is estimated that in 2007 approximately $160 million was invested in harm reduction in low and middle income countries, of which $136 million (90%) …
IHRA launches 'The Global State of Harm Reduction 2010: Key Issues for Broadening the Response' report
The Global State of Harm Reduction 2010: Key Issues for Broadening the Response – is the second major report in the series. It provides a region-by-region update of key developments in harm reduction since the first Global State report was …
IHRA launches 'The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2010' report
The International Harm Reduction Association released a study on the death penalty for drug offences today on the opening day of the 19th session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, taking place in Vienna. The report, …
