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We send out a monthly Alert with news items, updates on the latest publications in our library and upcoming drug policy events. These Alerts are distributed by email and reach more than 10,000 policymakers, academics and practitioners in over 100 countries. The previous Alerts can be downloaded from our site in both English and Spanish through the 'Archived Alerts' box on the left.
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Speaking out for communities affected by HIV - UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board NGO Annual Report
The NGO Delegation to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) decided to focus its report and consultation around civil society experiences of stigma and discrimination. This video presents excerpts from the presentation of the UNAIDS PCB NGO Delegation, followed by a slide show from the NGO Delegation and Observers at the UNAIDS PCB in June 2010.
27 July 2010
El análisis científico del problema de las adicciones a sustancias ilegales, a las cuales limitamos esta nota, apuntaló el consenso en cuanto al carácter plural de su origen. Es multifactorial.
27 July 2010
The Transnational Institute (TNI) and the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), two organizations with decades of experience on drug policy in the region, are launching a new website to provide up-to-date analysis of trends in drug policy reform and videos that show the human face of drug laws’ collateral damage.
27 July 2010
The 2010 Report on Drug Addictions, presented a few weeks ago to the Italian Parliament by Mr Berlusconi's Drug Czar Carlo Giovanardi, contains data that have triggered hot debates, and ironical comments from professionals working in the drugs field.
27 July 2010
The Centro de Investigación 'Drogas y Derechos Humanos' (CIDDH) has developed a webpage in which it intends to provide a virtual analytical, graphical and cartographic tour of the various locations involving cocaine trafficing in the Andes Region.
27 July 2010
The NGO Delegation to the UNAIDS Program Coordinating Board (PCB), which represents the perspectives of civil society, is currently recruiting new members. The deadline for applications is 16 August 2010, 18:00 Geneva Time.
27 July 2010
Anya Sarang, the director of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation addressed the delegates at the first plenary session of the XVIII International AIDS Conference, on 19 July 2010, in Vienna, Austria. During her speech, Anya criticised Russia's drug policy and called for a drug policy based on human rights and harm reduction.
27 July 2010
IDPC is proud to announce that its Drug Policy Guide to national policy makers is now available in Russian. The Guide is now available on our website in English, Spanish and Russian, and will soon be available in French.
13 July 2010
Michel Kazatchkine, the Executive Director of the Global Fund, encourages all who will be attending the International AIDS Conference in Vienna to attend the Human Rights March and Rally on the 20th July 2010, calling the event a ''great opportunity to unite everyone involved in the fight against AIDS at a defining moment in the history of the response.”
8 July 2010
Mr. Marco Di Paolo, a multiple sclerosis sufferer from the town of Sulmona, went to court to have access to medical marijuana. The judge ruled that, under certain circumstances, the Local Health Authority is obliged to provide marijuana for medical purposes.
24 June 2010
