July 21, 2020 On International Drug Users’ Remembrance Day, we take time to remember the family, friends, peers, and loved ones whose lives have been unjustly and tragically cut short. The criminalisation and stigmatisation of people who use drugs continue to desensitise our society to the callous injustice carried out in the name of the so-called War on Drugs. In… Read More »International Drug Users Remembrance Day 2020
6 July, 2020 Read the accompanying research project – Taking Back What’s Ours! A documented history of the movement of people who use drugs The global movement of people who use drugs has achieved exponential growth over the last four decades. Throughout the world drug user led advocacy has become a global phenomenon pushing to protect and defend the health and… Read More »Taking Back What’s Ours! An oral history of the movement of people who use drugs
15 JUNE 2020 The International Network of people who Use Drugs (INPUD), Recovering Nepal (RN), and the Indian Drug Users Forum (IDUF) were pleased to hear the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is compiling a study on Arbitrary Detention related to drug policies. In response to their call for stakeholder submissions, we have decided to bring renewed attention to the violations of… Read More »Joint submission to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention by INPUD, Recovering Nepal and the Indian Drug Users Forum
APRIL 7, 2020 This statement, endorsed by over 300 organisations and individuals, was developed by INPUD in collaboration with the International Drug Policy Consortium and Harm Reduction International. Translations in Spanish, French and Russian, are available for download below. Pусский | Español | Français We, as community and civil society organisations working in drug policy reform and harm reduction, urge the international community to take proactive and coordinated action to protect… Read More »In the time of COVID-19: Civil Society Statement on COVID-19 and People who use Drugs
MARCH 31, 2020 In collaboration with Harm Reduction International (HRI), the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, the Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA), the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), LBH Masyarakat, Release, and Rights Reporter Foundation, we have developed this letter to the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health to provide guidance to states on how to promote and protect the right… Read More »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
MARCH 20, 2020 Ultimi consigli per chi usa eroina/oppiacei – coronavirus COVID-19(aggiornato il 7/20 Marzo) 1) assicurati di avere quanti più numeri di telefono possibili per gli spacciatori attivi 2) preparati a possibili astinenze involontarie – fai scorta di medicinali specifici per i sintomi da astinenza ed eventuali farmaci a base di oppioidi che puoi ottenere3) Sii consapevole del maggior… Read More »Suggerimenti per la Riduzione del Danno per #COVID19
MARCH 17, 2020 Worldwide, women who use drugs are vastly underserved within health and social services and programmes. National and international research, services, guidelines, and training programmes are either gender-neutral or male-focused. As harm reduction services are primarily tailored to men, women who use drugs often find their specific needs being unacknowledged and unaddressed, leading to non gender-responsive harm reduction… Read More »On the A-Gender: Community Monitoring Tool for Gender-Responsive Harm Reduction Services for Women who Use Drugs
FEBRUARY 3, 2020 (This press release was originally published by Harm Reduction International. The full open letter is attached to the end of this article.) Harm Reduction International, the International Drug Policy Consortium and the International Network of People Who Use Drugs published open letters today calling on the United Nations’ major human rights and drug control bodies to take all… Read More »Human rights groups urge the UN to intervene in execution of drug offenders in Bahrain
17TH OCTOBER 2019 On the 10th October, 2019 history was made in Lyon, when governments, philanthropic donors and the private sector pledged US$14 billion for the Sixth Global Fund Replenishment, more than any other global health institution has ever raised. Harm Reduction International, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association, International Network of People Who Use Drugs and the India HIV/AIDS Alliance congratulate the Government of France,… Read More »We’re not there just yet: A joint statement on harm reduction and the Global Fund Sixth
October, 2019 INPUD is very excited to launch the Injecting Drug User Implementation Tool Training Manual. Developed jointly by UNODC and INPUD, in collaboration with other partners, the guidance document Implementing Comprehensive HIV Programmes with People who Inject Drugs: Practical Approaches from Collaborative Interventions – otherwise known as the Injecting Drug User Implementation Tool (IDUIT) – was published in 2016. … Read More »Injecting Drug User Implementation Tool Training Manual