Program: Global Drug Policy Program

Press release October 2, 2011

Rio de Janeiro Declaration from the Strategic Meeting on Public Security and Drug Policies

This declaration emphasizes the need to develop smarter drug policies that leverage the community to reduce drug use, while allowing law enforcement agencies to direct their focus and resources towards combating real crimes.

Press release April 12, 2011

HIV and Injecting Drug Use: A Global Call to Action

This declaration aims to hold the United Nations accountable to their commitments on HIV/AIDS for people who inject drugs worldwide.

Press release December 19, 2010

Former Polish President Calls for Drug Law Liberalization

Initiated by Krytyka Polityczna, an Open Society Foundations grantee, a number of prominent public figures, including former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski and sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, have called for liberalizing Polish drug laws.

Press release June 30, 2010

The Vienna Declaration: A Global Call to Action for Science-Based Drug Policy

The official declaration of the XVIII International AIDS Conference, this document seeks to improve community health and safety by calling for scientific evidence to be incorporated into illicit drug policies.

Press release June 24, 2009

Groups Press Governments to Reform Harmful Drug Policies

The Open Society Institute has joined with over 40 international groups and experts worldwide to issue a call to action pressing governments to adopt a humane approach to drug policy.

Press release June 4, 2009

German Vote Opens Door to European Consensus on Drug Treatment

The Open Society Institute welcomes the German Parliament's decision to approve medical heroin to treat dependence on opium-based drugs.

Press release March 3, 2009

Ahead of UN Global Drugs Summit, Experts Debate the Past and Future of Drug Policy

Ahead of a UN summit on global drug policy, international experts will gather in Warsaw to evaluate the last ten years of drug policy around the world and its consequences, and make recommendations for the future.

Press release August 5, 2008

Good Drug Policy Is Good AIDS Policy, Say International Experts

As part of the 2008 International AIDS Conference, a press conference will address the serious consequences that ineffective drug policy has on a worldwide level, particularly in Latin America.

Press release May 4, 2008

OSI Launches Program to Challenge International Drug Policy

With a focus on public health and human rights, the Global Drug Policy program will engage and support efforts to analyze, challenge, and publicize the effects of the "war on drugs."

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