István Gábor Takács is a human rights activist, videographer and trainer. He ran the Video Advocacy Program of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union between 2007-2015. He worked as a needle exchange program counselor for 5 years. He is author of several articles on harm reduction and cameraman, editor, director and co-director of more than 700 online videos, among them longer documentaries, such as “Kostya Proletarsky” (2020), “Taking Back What’s Ours: An Oral History of the Movement of People who Use Drugs” (2020) ”A Day in the Life: The World of Humans Who Use Drugs” (2016), “Without Rights” (2009), “Without a Chance” (2014), “Room in the 8th District” (2014) and “The Invisible” (2011). Since 2016 he works at the Rights Reporter Foundation, where besides producing films, he is training activists in video advocacy.
A new film by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union made in cooperation with Adilet, an NGO in Kyrgyzstan. The films show how the Kyrgyz Republic successfully reacted to the HIV epidemic with implementing Harm reduction measures in time.
An HCLU-SWAN film, titled: ‘We want to save you! And if you dont appreciate it you will be punished!. Interview with Pye Jacbsson a sex worker activist from Sweden.
Excerpts of the speech of Mike Trace of the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) at the Informal Drug Policy Dialogue, 16 October 2008, European Parliament, Brussels.
The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union has collected the voices of drug users, scientists and activist from all around the globe. NOW 21 MESSAGES ARE ONLINE!