25 March, 2021 The following joint letter was sent to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken concerning key populations and PEPFAR, written by INPUD, GATE, Global Black Gay Men Connect, Global Network of People Living with HIV, Mpact Global Action for Gay Men’s Health & Rights, and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects
1 November, 2021 Every year on 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 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… Read More »International Drug Users Day 2021
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
11 May, 2022 INPUD’s bi-monthly members updates are intended to keep our members and supporters informed about INPUD’s recent activities, as well as updates from national/regional networks and relevant news in drug policy. The updates below cover the period from March through April 2022.
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
In December 2021 the World Health Assembly (WHA) held a Special Session, the second-ever since WHO’s founding, and agreed to develop a ‘WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic preparedness’ – the so-called ‘Pandemic Treaty’. The decision establishes an intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) to draft and negotiate the instrument. The INB held its first sessions in February and… Read More »Understanding the ‘Pandemic Treaty’ and it’s relevance for people who use drugs
29 April, 2022 As a part of the Global Fund’s CRG Strategic Initiative, INPUD organized a Peer Technical Support Hub in April 2022 on the topic of the Global Fund Complaints Mechanism and how it works for communities. The webinar familiarises networks and communities of people who use drugs with the concept of the GF Complaints Mechanism and Office of… Read More »Global Fund Complaints Mechanism: How can people who use drugs use it effectively?
28 April, 2022 An estimated thirteen thousand people use crack cocaine in the wider Paris region. Recently the police, who have been harassing the community over the last three decades, even built a wall to block people who use crack from the rest of society. This wall – an ugly and very physical manifestation of the authorities’ attempts to separate… Read More »Video: The Wall of Shame – Why Crack Consumptions Rooms are Needed in Paris
12 April, 2022 Pусский | Español | Français Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs) play a crucial role within the Global Fund model and have a potential to be transformative in ending AIDS, TB, and malaria. However, too often Global Fund programmes implemented at the national level and overseen by CCMs do not perform as well as expected and do not meet the needs of key… Read More »Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism Evolution (CCM)
12 April, 2022 Pусский | Español | Français The Global Fund’s Community, Rights, and Gender Strategic Initiative (CRG SI) offers short-term peer-to-peer technical assistance to communities and civil society, including key population-led organisations and networks, to ensure that barriers related to community engagement, human rights, and gender equity are addressed. The CRG SI consists of three components: 1. Short-term technical assistance; 2. Long-term technical… Read More »Global Fund’s Community, Rights, and Gender (CRG)- Strategic Initiative: Short-Term Technical Assistance