A View from the Community By Anton Basenko, INPUD Executive Director Jointly with peers from EuroNPUD and AfricaNPUD The 69th session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND69), held in Vienna from 9–13 March 2026, once again positioned itself as the central event for global drug policy debate. With over 2,000 participants from governments, UN agencies, and civil… Read More »CND69: Between Rhetoric and Reality
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 cycles. Each UPR review cycle results in the States under review receiving and accepting recommendations… Read More »Universal Periodic Review: How People who Use Drugs can Engage and Impact State Reviews
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 Singh and Norasharee bin Gous, are scheduled to be executed tomorrow, 7 July 2022, for drug… Read More »100 Community and Human Rights Groups Urge UN Action to Halt Imminent Executions in Singapore
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
21 – 24 June, 2022 The following two interventions were delivered by Aditia Taslim on behalf of INPUD during the 50th meeting of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB). The first intervention was delivered on day one (21st June) of the 50th PCB under Agenda 1.3 – Report of the Executive Director, in response to the statement by UNAIDS Executive… Read More »INPUD Interventions at the 50th UNAIDS PCB – Addressing Methadone Crisis in Ukraine & UBRAF
6th June, 2022 Русский Over the last several years the Kyrgyzstan organisation Asteria, led by women who use drugs, has been engaging in the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), with the support of INPUD. Asteria partnered with a coalition of NGOs to develop and submit a shadow report documenting and visibilising rights violations against women from… Read More »Women who Use Drugs in Kyrgyzstan: Experience of Writing and Working on a CEDAW Shadow Report
6 October, 2021 The following intervention was delivered by Aditia Taslim on behalf of INPUD at the Special Session of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board held on 6 October, 2021. It was delivered under Agenda Item 3: 2022-2026 Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework (UBRAF) The International Network of People who Use Drugs welcomes the 2022-2026 UBRAF. We are at… Read More »Intervention delivered by INPUD at the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board Special Session
8 December, 2021 The following intervention was delivered by Aditia Taslim on behalf of INPUD at the 49th UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board, under Agenda Item 3: Update on HIV in prisons and other closed settings. The International Network of People who Use Drugs welcomes the updated report on HIV and prison and other closed settings. We condemn the effort to… Read More »Intervention delivered by INPUD at the 49th UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board
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