This film – produced by the Rights Reporter Foundation, supported by AFEW International – features activists and civil society organisations who are being increasingly targeted by repressive governments in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The movie presents a story of oppression, resistance and survival seen through the eyes of human rights defenders. They dedicated their lives to support the human rights of some of the most stigmatized and criminalised groups in Eastern Europe and Central Asia to be able to access health services.

The Rights Reporter Foundation, with the support of the International Drug Policy Consortium and the Robert Carr Civil Society Networks Fund (RCNF), organised Video Advocacy Training in Bangkok, Thailand. Learn about the training through the participants’ own words.

A new movie produced by the alumni of our video training, tells the story of Petr, a 50 years old man from Prague, who lost his leg, his has no home, no job – but his has now hope to change his life with the help of opiate substitution treatment.

We filmed the largest international harm reduction gathering to give you an insight on what is happening with this movement around the world.

The renewed commitment to the war on drugs approach of president Bolsonaro is threatening the achievements of the Brazilian harm reduction movement. Watch our videos!

Inspired by the testimony of a psychedelic fungi grower, we went to the Czech National Mental Health Institute in the Czech Republic to meet the scientists making psychedelics legal. A movie produced by Polish members of our global video advocacy network.

The Rights Reporter Foundation (RRF) announces a Call for Applications to its 4 day long Video Advocacy Training for drug policy and harm reduction activists in Asia, to be held in Bangkok on 20-23 May 2019. Application deadline is 17 April, 2019.

Activists from Legalize Belarus civic education and advocacy campaign published an advocacy documentary, “Narcotisation And Authoritarianism”, about the war on drugs in Belarus.

Drugreporter’s team attended the UN Commission on Narcotics Drugs (CND), please read some take home messages and watch some videos we produced there!

Is Georgia’s drug policy a rejection of repression? Drug-related issues are a complex and ambiguous topic in modern day Georgia. The legislation of the country that regulates drug policy and its strict implementation for many years causes heavy and unjustified harm to drug users and their families.