Intervention presented on behalf of People who Use Drugs in Kenya by WRADA ‘s Rita Gatonye in February 2025 in Geneva at the UN Human Rights Spaces. People who use drugs in Kenya experience a range of issues that limit their access to health services… Read More »Rita from WRADA steps up: Read the intervention here
INPUD, AfricaNPUD and WRADA were represented by some of our amazing community leaders in Geneva this week to speak up for people who use drugs. Aditia Taslim, Ahmed Said and Rita Gatonye (respectively) cut the charismatic swathe our community is known for as “The Amazing… Read More »Human Rights & Harm Reduction Heroes speak up for Kenyans who use drugs: The Amazing Three take the lead in Geneva this week
The INPUD Board Chair powerfully represented drug users at AIDS2024 Closing 27 July, rousing the audience to get loud for drug law reform.
28th September 2023 The Global Fund Strategy 2023-2028 places community leadership at its front and centre. Under Grant Cycle 7 (GC7), the Global Fund introduced changes to promote community leadership and engagement, harm reduction and human rights, and to support the scale-up and sustainability of… Read More »Communities at the Centre: A report back on the Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 (Windows 1 and 2)
July 2023 In 2016, INPUD commissioned a project that used in-depth, qualitative interviews with twenty peer drug user activists and harm reduction specialists from a range of different countries to develop a comprehensive set of seventeen key harm reduction interventions based on ‘best and worst… Read More »Harm Reduction Best and Worst Practices
A drug user-led monitoring toolkit of legal and policy framework. Our Rights. Every Body’s Rights. INPUD are very excited to be releasing the first, community-friendly legal assessment tool specifically focused on people who use drugs. We as people who use drugs know what legal and… Read More »Legal Environment Scan
2nd September, 2022 The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a United Nations human rights mechanism that monitors, analyses, and highlights human rights violations. In this mechanism, Member States undergo a review of their human rights record conducted by other States and civil society in four-to-five-year… Read More »Universal Periodic Review: How People who Use Drugs can Engage and Impact State Reviews
2 August, 2022
2 August, 2022 Conducting advocacy in online environments is more important than ever. While this shift has brought certain advantages, it can also bring problems and limitations, especially for drug user organisations operating within spaces which are hostile to our community. With this in mind,… Read More »Digital High-Level Advocacy Tip Sheet
6 July, 2022 INPUD joins the Network of Asian People who Use Drugs, Harm Reduction International , the International Drug Policy Consortium and 100 community and human rights organisations in urging the UNODC and OHCHR to intervene and halt two impending executions in Singapore. Kalwant… Read More »100 Community and Human Rights Groups Urge UN Action to Halt Imminent Executions in Singapore