Ένα σημαντικότατο άρθρο -μαρτυρία καταγγελία- του δικού μας Μάριου, του σπουδαίου ακτιβιστή.
Σε λίγες μέρες εκδικάζεται η έφεση για τη δίκη του ΚΕΘΕΑ που πρώτη φορά μάς δίνει την ευκαιρία να μιλήσουμε ωμά και ανοιχτά για κάποια κλειστά προγράμματα και τις τιμωρητικές μεθόδους τσαλαπάτησης της προσωπικότητας με κατάφορη παραβίαση των βασικών ανθρώπινων δικαιωμάτων.
Στη χώρα μας, όπως λέει κι ο Μάριος, έχει δημιουργηθεί ένας κλοιός προστασίας που γίνεται αιτία να κλείσουν στόματα και να διαιωνίζονται οι αναποτελεσματικές πρακτικές απεξάρτησης που πλέον είναι ξεπερασμένες.
Solidarity. Don't Punish, with a focus on women and gender expansive people, 2026
Recent backward moving shifts in foreign aid with diminishing civil society space threaten gains made through decades of evidence based harm reduction programming that has saved countless lives globally. Civil society organisations providing crucial peer support systems are being defunded and their voices repressed. Concurrently, gender rights and sexual and reproductive health services including contraception, gender based violence services and safe abortion are being attacked and eroded. Women and gender expansive people who use drugs are particularly at risk as essential life-saving services are being closed down.
“Support. Don’t Punish” is a global, grassroots campaign supporting harm reduction and drug policies that prioritise human rights and public health. The campaign also highlights the special needs and circumstances of women and people of expansive gender identity who use drugs. Building on partnerships and consensus among women and people of expansive gender identity who use drugs, organisations and groups worldwide are collaborating:
to highlight the need to expand gender sensitive harm reduction services.
to end violence against women and people of expansive gender identity who use drugs, and
to improve drug policies from a health, gender and harm reduction perspective.
Harm reduction is essential and a basic human right. These decisions are negligent, unjust, will cost lives and must be immediately revoked. We stand ready to continue our work to address systemic barriers to health and rights for women and gender expansive people who use drugs.
On this day, the demands of Solidarity and Support. Don’t Punish with a focus on women and people of expansive gender identity who use drugs are for:
Allocation of long term sustainable funding to gender responsive harm reduction services (including OAT that prioritises inclusion of pregnant people) and networks led by women and gender expansive people who use drugs
Decriminalisation of drug use and sex work, with immediate abolition of capital punishment, extrajudicial killings, compulsory treatment, drug user registration systems and punishment for pregnant people who use of drugs.
Re-opening and expansion of gender-responsive harm reduction services including gender affirming care that are non-discriminatory, safe and relevant.
Upholding the right to autonomy over the bodies of women and people of expansive gender identity who use drugs including choices around safer drug use.
An end to the distortion of facts that surround drug use and pregnancy, and to using drug use as reason for the invasion or disruption of privacy, family or domestic life.
Implementation of mechanisms for prevention of violence and support for women and people of expansive gender identity who use drugs who are subject to violence.
Please join WHRIN and (insert your name of your organisation) in claiming these basic rights for women and people of expansive gender identity who use drugs and societies as a whole, worldwide.
H Πολιτική για τα ναρκωτικά είναι φεμινιστικό ζήτημα- σε κάθε γλώσσα
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkM5imtAn9w
11 May 2026
Drug policy is a feminist issue. This
event explores the gendered impacts of punitive drug policy, tracing women's
and gender diverse peoples' lived experience and collective resistance.
Centring the death penalty as its harshest expression, the event will also
focus on women on death row across Asia, calling for abolition and justice.
Advocates will demonstrate how drug policy is gendered and the relevance of a
human rights and feminist approach. Examples of leadership and mobilisation of
women and gender diverse people who use drugs will be presented. Although
funding cuts and anti-gender rights actors pose a significant threat, women and
gender diverse people who use drugs are staking their place in the feminist
movement. Despite the use of the death penalty for drug offending being a clear
breach of international law, currently at least 56 women are on death row for
drug offences. Women on death row are convicted of drug offences at far higher
rates than men. Anti-death penalty experts will spotlight the case of Mary Jane
Veloso, a Filipino domestic worker who was sentenced to death despite
compelling evidence that she was unaware of being in possession of drugs and
was, in fact, a victim of human trafficking. The discussion is designed to
facilitate a sharing of knowledge and experience with audience interaction.
The #WarOnDrugshas caused decades of harm — yet similar approaches are re-emerging today. What is needed to transform drug policies towards health, human rights and evidence?
At the 69th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), this side event examines the resurgence of “war on drugs” approaches and their impact on human rights and international cooperation. As governments increasingly turn to militarised responses, counter-terrorism frameworks, and states of emergency to address drug trafficking, this discussion highlights the risks these strategies pose to human rights, multilateralism, and effective drug policy, and calls for responses grounded in public health, human rights, and international law.
Speakers:
Ben Saul – UN Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights
John Walsh – Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
Macarena Fernández Hoffman – Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS)
Gerardo Álvarez – Mexico Unido Contra la Delincuencia (MUCD)
Moderator:
Ann Fordham – International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC)
Organised by Amnesty International and co-sponsored by Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS), Conectas, Dejusticia, Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), and the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA).
