On International Drug Users Day, we call for recognition and celebration of our diverse community. On this day, we are all about drug user pride!
Every year on November 1st, International Drug Users Day, people who use drugs all over the world celebrate our history and affirm our rights. INPUD was formally launched on International Drug Users Day in 2008 by drug user rights activists seeking to create an international platform where members of our community could confidently and proudly advocate for the health and human rights of people who use drugs globally. Every year since, we have marked this day with a celebration of our diverse vibrant communities’ accomplishments, while also acknowledging our work is more critical than ever.
Under the theme ‘drug use = our choice, abstinence = your choice, prohibition = no
choice’, this year we want to reaffirm that war on drugs is a war on
people who use drugs. Despite widespread criminalisation, on this day, we want
to celebrate our freedom to make choices, our right to bodily integrity and
autonomy, and our inherent dignity.
Read our full #IDUD24 blog post here.
This year, INPUD has awarded 35 small grants to drug user organisations for the purpose of supporting campaigns and activities around #IDUD24. These grants have been distributed across the world as such:
Africa: 12 grants (9 countries) – Burundi, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe
Europe: 6 grants (6 countries) – Ireland, Germany, Portugal, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy
Pacific: 2 grants (1 country) – Australia
North America: 4 grants (2 countries) – Canada, United States of America
Asia: 6 grants (4 countries) – Indonesia, India, Nepal, Thailand
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: 4 grants (2 countries) – Kazakhstan, Ukraine
Latin America: 1 grant (1 country) – Ecuador
#IDUD24 Social Media Resources
Participating in #IDUD24 is as easy as making a social media post. For this year we have designed several images which can be shared on social media with the #IDUD24, along with your own personal message. We encourage all to download and use these images on November 1st.
Click here to access a google drive folder where you can download all of the resources for #IDUD24.
Email Signature Banner
IDUD Social Media Tile (Animated)
IDUD Social Media Tile (Static)
IDUD Poster
IDUD Poster Text Only
Stickers & Images for Social Media
Additional Participation Instructions and Information
- Nominate a Comms person to be responsible for your social media, and connect them with INPUD’s Comms team.
- The Comms person must email leahmcleod@inpud.net by 27 October at the latest.
- Should the organisation desire it, INPUD would be pleased to meet with them to discuss any issues or to provide specific technical assistance to help them produce a representative asset.
- The Comms person is responsible for producing a Comms plan for the day, including how many posts; the content; the style; and what platforms they will be posting to in order to represent their event and their community. This will be shared with INPUD and filed with other documentation relevant to their Grant.
- The plan should speak to preserving anonymity and confidentiality of community members if appropriate.
- It is advised that all people featured in social media posts sign an agreement stating they agree to appear on social media for IDUD and possibly be identified as a person who uses drugs. It is compulsory for any person appearing in posts sent from INPUD’s accounts to have signed an agreement to appear.
- Two posts will be posted from the INPUD account with an agreement about content, messaging and timing. These should be emailed to leahmcleod@inpud.net as a final file, unless agreed earlier.
- The files must be accompanied by a document laying out instructions for how they should be posted; the full name of organisation and the abbreviation; a description of how they post is representative of the event, IDUD and the host organisation; and text to accompanying photograph video etc.
- The INPUD staff member can veto either or both posts if it is felt that they are not representative of IDUD and asked for either another suggestion or a specific post.
- The post that appears on INPUD should be exclusive to INPUD and therefore must NOT appear on the social media of the host organisation or any other organisation’s or person’s social media except as a repost, which is of course encouraged.
- As such, the organisation can request of INPUD that we tag any funding body or partner that they might wish to be tagged. Subject to word count and timing, this request will be met.
- INPUD is pleased to post in any language, or multiple languages, but the copy must be provided. An English translation must always be included for simultaneous or separate posting.
- All posts showing the IDUD event regardless of when they are posted, should include the hashtag #IDUD24. An additional # that can be used is #MyVoiceMyChoice.