Our regional drug user networks are actively working to realise the human rights of people who use drug. From November 25-28 the Latin American and Caribbean Network of People who Use Drugs (LANPUD) held its 1st meeting of women and dissidents in the city of Olinda, Recife in Brazil. Participants valued each other’s contexts and realities in order to denounce… Read More »Promotion of self determination
Black Initiative for a New Drug Policy (INNPD) is launching a short documentary that shows how the war on drugs is an instrument of racism, which incites violence and hinders democratic development in Brazil. INNPD is the first black civil organisation in Brazil which addresses the importance of drug policies on the lives of black people. As Nathália Oliveira, co-founder… Read More »THE BLACK INITIATIVE: Fighting Brazil’s Racist War on Drugs
Kenya: Nairobi This week, more than 20 delegates from AfricaNPUD and MENANPUD got together to learn more about making the voices of people who use drugs heard in conversations about the protection and promotion of their human rights. People who use drugs are more likely to contract HIV, hepatitis and have poor access to health care services because of the… Read More »UNAIDS joint workshop in Kenya – advocacy training
7- 11 November 2022 Kenya – in person Representatives from AfricaNPUD and MENANPUD will be attending a joint workshop with UNAIDS for training designed to strengthen the capacity of people who use drugs to effectively advocate for progress on the 10-10-10 social enabler targets recently adopted in the Global AIDS Strategy and 2021 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS, (particularly in regard… Read More »UNAIDS Joint Workshop AfricaNPUD and MENANPUD
21st July, 2022 This page contains all sessions at the AIDS 2022 conference which are either organised/co-organised by INPUD, or feature speakers from the community of people who use drugs. All times listed are local Montreal time. The full AIDS 2022 programme can be viewed at: programme.aids2022.org Friday, 29 July 2022 Accelerating the implementation of the Global AIDS Strategy through… Read More »INPUD Sessions at AIDS 2022
21 July, 202214:00 CEST Click here to register On International Drug Users Remembrance Day (21 July), join INPUD alongside Asteria Kyrgyzstan, IWRAW Asia Pacific, Eurasian Women’s Network on AIDS and CEDAW representatives for a discussion on how the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) can be utilised by drug user advocates to address human rights violations in… Read More »Engaging with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW): Guidance for Women who use drugs
28th June, 2022 The African Network of People who Use Drugs (AfricaNPUD) and INPUD hosted a webinar on 28th June 2022 discussing human rights and people who use drugs in Sub-Saharan Africa. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted structural inequalities which expanded human rights violations against people who use drugs in sub-Saharan Africa. During this webinar AfricaNPUD, with speakers from the community… Read More »Webinar: Human Rights Violations against People who Use Drugs in Sub-Saharan Africa
21 July, 2021 On International Drug Users Remembrance Day, we take time to remember the people whose lives were unjustly cut short due to the criminalisation and stigmatisation of people who use drugs. To us, they were more than a casualty; they were our family, friends, peers and loved ones. #MoreThan Campaign To commemorate this day in 2021, INPUD launched… Read More »International Drug Users Remembrance Day 2021
25 May, 2022 Join INPUD on 25th May , 13:00 CEST – 14:30 CEST for a webinar on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a key human rights mechanism where the human rights record of States are reviewed in five year cycles by other States as well as through civil society contributions such as shadow reports. Recommendations from UPR rarely address… Read More »Engaging and Impacting the Universal Periodic Review: Guidance for People who Use Drugs
29 April, 20222:30pm London Time As a part of the Global Fund’s CRG Strategic Initiative, INPUD is organizing a Peer Technical Support Hub on the topic of the GF Complaints Mechanism and how it works for the communities. Register for the webinar here: bit.ly/3xe7YwF The objective of the call is to familiarise networks and communities of people who use drugs… Read More »Global Fund Complaints Mechanism: How can people who use drugs use it effectively?