March 15, 2013 |
by Chris Collins
amfAR’s new short film, The Exchange, highlights broad support for syringe services programs in the United States.
March 14, 2013 |
by Becky Hogge
Weekly news digest produced by the Information Program. This week’s top story highlights the increasing rhetoric coming from the U.S. government around “cyberwar.”
March 13, 2013 |
by Mark P. Lagon, Bennett Freeman
Each year the Uzbek government forces hundreds of thousands of its own citizens to pick cotton. But the U.S. State Department now has a chance to pressure Uzbek authorities to curb human trafficking.
Grantee Spotlight
March 13, 2013 |
by Rachel Thomas, Leo Beletsky
With help from civil society and progressive ministerial guidelines, Police in Kyrgyzstan have embraced public health programs that also protect and serve sex workers and drug users.
March 12, 2013 |
by Lora Lumpe
The Department of Defense now provides twice as much foreign military assistance as does the Department of State.
March 12, 2013 |
by Becky Tolson
After injecting her son with an Epi-pen, Becky Tolson reflects on the importance of having the medicine easily available, and draws parallels to her work advocating for broader access to the overdose antidote, naloxone.
March 12, 2013 |
by Nahal Zamani
Next Monday, the Center for Constitutional Rights will head to trial in our landmark case, Floyd et al. v. the City of New York, challenging the New York City Police Department’s practice of unconstitutional stops and frisks.
March 11, 2013 |
by Grazia Zuffa
A coalition of NGOs works to change Italian drug legislation and tackle prison overcrowding.
March 8, 2013 |
by Olga Rychkova
For the many women who use drugs worldwide, domestic and police violence is all too common an occurrence.
March 8, 2013 |
by James Ridgeway
After three years of reporting on solitary confinement for Solitary Watch, a website I co-founded, I’m convinced that much of what happens in these places constitutes torture.
