Media Releases
Inaugural study reveals that more than one in four women in European and Central Asian prisons locked up for drug offences
11 March 2012
Embargoed 00.01 CET Monday 12th March 2012 Up to 70 percent of female prisoners incarcerated for drugs in some countries Russia incarcerates over twice as many women for drug offences as all… Read more
Russia: Government Shuts HIV-Prevention Group’s Website
08 February 2012
For Immediate Release Russia: Government Shuts HIV-Prevention Group’s Website Move is an Assault on Freedom of Expression (Moscow, February 8, 2012) – The Russian government’s anti-drugs… Read more
New Report: Thousands caned, whipped, lashed or flogged each year for drug and alcohol offences
08 November 2011
Embargoed until 12:01am GMT +8, Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Thousands caned, whipped, lashed or flogged each year for drug and alcohol offences, says new report Governments cannot ‘brutalise… Read more
New Report: Foreign Drug Offenders Facing Death in China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Kuwait
14 September 2011
Embargoed until 00.01am GMT +1, Thursday, September 15, 2011 Thursday, September 15, 2011 (London, UK) – A survey of countries that enforce the death penalty for drug offences reveals that in… Read more
Press release: Torture in Drug Treatment Detention
24 June 2011
Reports by Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care Describe Abuse (New York) - People identified as drug users in many countries are confined to abusive locked detention centers for months - or even years, say two reports released today by The Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care. Such detention centers are supposedly mandated to treat and… Read more
MEDIA RELEASE: Irish Press Ombudsman upholds complaint by coalition of drug services
13 June 2011
Media Release: Irish Independent censured for ‘offensive’ column likely to 'stir hatred' against drug users: Press Ombudsman upholds complaint by coalition of drug services The Press… Read more
Beirut Declaration on HIV and Injecting Drug Use calls on UN meeting to address the role of injecting drug use in the AIDS epidemic
06 June 2011
Media Release Beirut Declaration on HIV and Injecting Drug Use calls on UN meeting to address the role of injecting drug use in the AIDS epidemic Over two hundred leading HIV/AIDS, development and human rights organisations back the declaration HIV prevention programs for injecting drug users need to scale up twenty fold to meet UN… Read more
World AIDS Day 2010
30 November 2010
Injecting drug use and growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in Middle East and North Africa region to be focus of the International Harm Reduction conference taking place in Beirut, Lebanon April 3-7, 2011 Over 1000 researchers, activists, social workers and politicians from some 80 countries to attend the International Harm Reduction Association’s 22nd… Read more
European Commission and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime funding supporting programmes that lead to death sentences and executions
21 June 2010
Harm Reduction International (Harm Reduction International) says there are strong links between the carrying out of executions and the financial contributions from European governments, the European Commission and the UNODC to support drug enforcement operations in countries that use the death penalty such as China, Iran and Viet Nam. Read more
UN body warns against reintroduction of the death penalty for drug offences in Mauritius and advocates public health interventions as an alternative
26 May 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 (London, UK and Port Louis, Mauritius) – UN human rights monitors have warned against the reintroduction of the death penalty for drug offences in Mauritius, suggesting instead a range of public health interventions designed to address drug related harm in the country, including the… Read more
Death Penalty Report Launch
17 May 2010
Global Report: Hundreds of people are executed for drug offences each year around the world, according to a new global survey published by the International Harm Reduction Association (Harm Reduction International). According to the report, the actual annual figure very likely exceeds one thousand when taking into account those countries that… Read more
Singapore’s decision to maintain mandatory death penalty for Yong Vui Kong criticised by Harm Reduction International
14 May 2010
Harm Reduction International has expressed its deep regret at the decision of the Singapore Court of Appeals to retain the mandatory death penalty for drug offences, a judgment that forecasts the execution of Yong Vui Kong for an offence committed while he was only a teenager. Yong Vui Kong today lost his appeal against his conviction in 2008 of… Read more
Harm Reduction International Submission on Mauritius to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
29 April 2010
Harm Reduction International Submission on Mauritius to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Read more
Public Health Surveillance of infections and behaviours among injecting drug users wraps up final day of Harm Reduction 2010 conference
29 April 2010
Public Health Surveillance of infections and behaviours among injecting drug users wraps up final day of Harm Reduction 2010 conference. Read more
20 years of surveillance data on HIV infection and behaviours amongst injecting drug users (IDUs) is an international landmark
29 April 2010
20 years of surveillance data on HIV infection and behaviours amongst injecting drug users (IDUs) is an international landmark. Read more
Global Report: 3 cents a day is not enough to prevent injecting drug use fuelling HIV/AIDS epidemics in Eastern Europe and Asia
26 April 2010
Global Report: 3 cents a day is not enough to prevent injecting drug use fuelling HIV/AIDS epidemics in Eastern Europe and Asia Read more
Professor Gerry Stimson says Social Democrats leader Nicholas Clegg right to debate drug decriminalisation
26 April 2010
Statement from Executive Director of the International Harm Reduction Association; Professor Gerry Stimson says Social Democrats leader Nicholas Clegg right to debate drug decriminalisation Read more
Harm Reduction International to launch ground breaking report on global lack of funding for HIV-related harm reduction at HR:2010
19 April 2010
Harm Reduction International to launch ground breaking report on global lack of funding for HIV-related harm reduction at HR:2010 Read more
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé to deliver opening address at HR:2010
08 April 2010
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé to deliver opening address at HR:2010 Read more
International Drugs and Harm Reduction Film Festival to run public screenings at FACT
30 March 2010
International Drugs and Harm Reduction Film Festival to run public screenings at FACT Read more
