Representatives of NGOs, government and police officials gathered yesterday at the National Drug Prevention Institute to discuss recent legal and financial controversies about harm reduction services in Hungary.
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We Need Room for Change!
Drugreporter, in cooperation with seven other NGOs, proudly presents the new international campaign Room for Change—because we need to change the way we respond to urban drug problems.
Our open letter to Mr. Fedotov
Civil society organizations hope that the promising words of the new UNODC director will be put into action soon
Our Film “A Day in the Life” Won a Gold Medal!
The Online Video Award for best documentary in Hungary was given to the Rights Reporter Foundation by Kreativ.hu
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8th European Conference on Drugs and Infection Prevention in Prison
The European Network on Drugs and Infection Prevention in Prisons (ENDIPP) organized its 8th Annual International Conference on Drugs and Infections Prevention in Prisons “Unlocking potentials – Making Prisons Safe for everyone” in Budapest, Hungary on July 7 – 9, 2005.
Cause for Alarm
One in four women in Central European and Central Asian prisons locked up for drug offences – according to a new study published by Harm Reduction International (HRI)
Portugal
APDES is a non-profit organisation, founded in 2004 with the main aim of promoting integrated development. It’s acknowledged as an NGO for Development by Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua I.P.
APDES works with vulnerable people and communities in domains such as access to healthcare, employment and education, seeking to empower these populations and reinforce social cohesion. Its core principles are: Human Rights Protection, Action Research and Evaluation Methodologies, Participative and Proximity Models of Intervention; Empowerment and Citizenship; Activism and Policy Action; Transdisciplinary Approaches. Therefore, APDES profile is oriented to: (a) providing proximal intervention services to vulnerable people and communities at national and international contexts, (b) producing critical understanding and research on the health and social reality and changing and advocating for fair health and social policies.
In the present time, APDES is an effective member of the European Drug Policy Initiative (EDPI) and several other national and international networks: European Civil Society Forum on Drugs, hosted by the European Commission – DG Justice; Correlation Network Hepatitis C Initiative (coordinating the Advocacy and Policy work stream) funded by European Commission – DG Justice, EUROHRN – European Harm Reduction Network funded by European Commission – DG Justice (APDES is one of its founders and is the leader of the South European sub-region, where has been playing an advocacy role for the promotion of Harm Reduction in this region); NEWIP – Night Life Empowerment and Well Being Implementation Project, funded by European Commission DG Health (APDES is the coordinator of the Evaluation work package); INDOORS II – Support and Empowerment of Female Sex Workers and Trafficked Women working in Hidden Places, a European network co-funded by DAPHNE III (APDES coordinates the work packages Empowerment for indoor sex workers and Awareness raising about sex’s workers rights); IDPC – International Drug Policy Consortium; R3 –Portuguese National Harm Reduction Network; RTS – National Portuguese Network on Sex Work; Portuguese Civil Society Forum on HIV.
In the last two years APDES has been discussing with parliamentary groups and health commission the drug policy reform, namely regarding the maintenance and improvement of harm reduction services and political responses to new psychoactive substances in Portugal.
Bulgaria after US marijuana legalization
Just days after cannabis was legalised in Colorado and Washington states, regulation of weed became a new hot issue in Bulgaria, after two fundamentally different poll results were published.
Coffee Shops and Compromise: The Success of the Dutch Model
In 1976, the Netherlands separated the cannabis market from the market in other illicit drugs, and allowed coffee shops to sell small amounts of cannabis to adults in a controlled environment. Our new movie, supplementing the report of the Open Society Foundation, tells the story of the Dutch model and highlights its successes, as well as the challenges ahead of it.