Statements, Responses and Letters
2023
1st November: International Drug User’s Day 2023
2022
6 July: 100 Community and Human Rights Groups Urge UN Action to Halt Imminent Executions in Singapore
21-24 June: INPUD Intervention at the 50th UNAIDS PCB Meeting – Addressing the Methadone Crisis in Ukraine & UBRAF
12 May: Global Fund Catalytic Investments are Central to ‘Putting People and Communities at the Centre’
19 April: Joint Statement by INPUD, HRI and NSWP for INB Public Hearing
17 March: INPUD Intervention at the 65th Commission on Narcotic Drugs
17 March: The impact of inequalities on HIV and viral hepatitis prevention, treatment, care and support among people who use drugs
14 March: Side event at the 65th CND – Ending Inequalities for People who Use Drugs: How the Global HIV Response can Transform Drug Policy
3 March: Global Call for Solidarity with People who Use Drugs in Ukraine
25 February: Joint Response by Key Population Networks to OHCHR: Human Rights in the Context of HIV and AIDS (HRC Resolution 47/17)
15 February: Joint Statement Urging Singapore to Halt the Impending Executions of Two People for Drug Offences
4 February: Information Note for PEPFAR COP22
2021
8 December: Intervention delivered by INPUD at the 49th UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board
1 December: Joint Letter to the Global Fund Equity, Human Rights and Gender Equality Consultation
1 November: International Drug Users Day 2021 Statement by INPUD
6 October: Intervention delivered by INPUD at the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board Special Session
30 September: Submission of feedback from INPUD to the Draft Overview of PEPFAR Strategy: Vision 2025
10 September: Key Recommendations for the Draft Global Fund Strategy Narrative
September: Joint Statement by INPUD and HRI on Global Fund Strategy Narrative
25 March: Joint Letter to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Key Populations and HIV
1 February: Three Building Blocks to a new Global Fund Strategy
21 January: Joint Response to the UNAIDS Strategy Team on the Global AIDS Strategy 2021 – 2026
2020
2 October: Joint Civil Society Letter on 2021 UN Treaty Bodies reviews in the context of COVID-19
29 August: Global Fund Strategy Development Consultation
21 July: International Drug Users Remembrance Day Statement 2020
15 June: INPUD joint submission with Indian Drug Users’ Forum and Recovering Nepal to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
7 April: In the time of COVID-19: Civil Society Statement on COVID-19 and People who Use Drugs
31 March: Joint letter to the Special Rapporteur on the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health on protecting and promoting the health of people who use drugs during COVID-19
20 March: Suggerimenti per la Riduzione del Danno per #COVID19 (ItaNPUD)
3 February: Joint statement from 100+ human rights groups urging the UN to take action to prevent two drug-related executions in Bahrain
2019
17 October: Joint Statement from INPUD, Harm Reduction International, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association and International HIV/AIDS Alliance
31 August: Joint Statement from Drug User Networks on International Overdose Awareness Day
24 July: Joint ANPUD and INPUD Statement on Raids on Offices of Anand Grover and Indira Jaising
6 June: Response to the Zero Draft of the UHC Political Declaration
1 May: INPUD submission to the OHCHR’s report on UNGASS implementation and human rights
15 April: Dean Lewis – Remembering a Friend
2018
1 November: International Drug Users’ Day Statement 2018
31 August: INPUD Statement – Overdose Awareness Day
1 June: Open Letter re: exclusion of naloxone at AIDS2018
8 March: Call for WHO & UNODC to revise guidelines on International Standards for the Treatment of Drug Use Disorders
2017
12 November: Declaration of the Hepatitis Community: NO ELIMINATION WITHOUT DECRIMINALIZATION!
21 July: INPUD Statement on Drug Users’ Remembrance Day
17 May: The Montréal Declaration on the Right of People Who Use Drugs to Be Protected From State Sanctioned Violence
1 March: In Loving Memory of Raffi Balian
1 February: Judy Chang Appointed as Executive Director of INPUD
2016
10 October: Global Week of Action: Crisis for People who Use Drugs in the Philippines
10 August: INPUD Response to the UNODC Statement on the killings in the Philippines
21 July: Drug Users Remembrance Day
18 July: INPUD in Durban for AIDS2016
1 July: An Entreaty to End the Killing, to End the Poverty and Exclusion: Halt to killings of People who Use Drugs in the Philippines
1 June: INPUD is greatly saddened by the death of Anan Pun
15 May: INPUD Supports Students for Sensible Drug Policy UK’s Harm Reduction Initiative
21 April: UNGASS 2016 INPUD Statement
12 January: INPUD Submission to The Civil Society Task Force to UNGASS on Drugs 2016
2015
10 December: International Human Rights Day: A call to end violence against women who use drugs
21 July: International Drug Users’ Remembrance Day, 2015 Statement
30 May: INPUD condemns the executions of eight people for drug-related offences in Indonesia
20 March: INPUD condemns Russia’s denial of access to essential medicines in Crimea
1 March: Letters from global groups express deep concerns about the Medicines Patent Pool’s entry into hepatitis C treatment
9 February: INPUD Open Letter Demanding an Immediate Cessation of Ongoing Executions of People in Indonesia for Drug Offences
20 January: INPUD response to Russell Brand’s documentary, Russell Brand: End the War on Drugs
10 January: INPUD response to the Global Fund’s Board decision on financing hepatitis C treatment for coinfected people
2014
27 November: INPUD welcomes the Global Fund’s opposition to drug detention centres
18 November: INPUD and other civil society organisations sign an open letter addressed to the global fund board pleading to hear their concerns
7 November: Response to the UK Government Home Office Report Drugs: International Comparators
1 November: International Drug Users’ Day 2014 – 1st November: ‘Community. Solidarity. Empowerment.’
9 September: The International Network of People who Use Drugs’ (INPUD) response to The Global Commission on Drug Policy’s Taking Control: Pathways to Drug Policies That Work
8 September: INPUD response to the WHO’s Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Care for Key Populations
25 July: AIDS2014 Closing Session Speech delivered by Eliot Albers, Perspectives from the Community of People who Use Drugs
26 May: Letter to IAS Governing Council regarding San Francisco being on the venue shortlist for IAC 2018
28 March: INPUD Statement at WHO Global Hepatitis Partners Meeting, Geneva
25 March: Letter to Special Rapporteurs on Crimea Situation
17 March: INPUD-ENPUD Statement on Crimea: Health and human rights crisis looming for people who use drugs in the Crimea
12 March: INPUD Statement to Civil Society Hearing at CND High Level Segment