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UN Official Voices Concern over Legality of U.S. Strikes on Suspected Drug Vessels
22 October 2025 – New York City, United States Photo credit: UN Web TV. Screenshot from this 2024 recording. Recently, during an interactive dialogue at the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly, High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk [...]
Business as usual has failed – it’s time for a radical shift in drug policy
BY RICHARD BRANSON Published on Virgin.com on 17 October 2025 The latest figures on drug fatalities registered in England in Wales in 2023, released today by the Office for National Statistics, underscore the deepening crisis facing the UK. Continuing [...]
The ‘war on drugs’ has failed. There’s another way to solve the US fentanyl crisis
Published in The Guardian on 12 September 2025 To defeat the cartels, governments should decriminalise personal use and create legal drug markets, says Richard Branson. And Richard Kilroy decries US military action against suspected drug-runners Your editorial on the so-called war on drugs (Donald [...]
The criminalization of the coca leaf: a denial of rights
It is time to right the historical wrongs that led to the policy of subjecting the coca plant to absurd international controls BY DIEGO GARCÍA-SAYAN Published in El País on 07 March 2025 Less than two years ago, in July […]
Le Canada ne doit pas faire marche arrière en matière de toxicomanie
Le Canada a été pionnier en matière de réduction des méfaits en Amérique du Nord avec l’ouverture d’Insite à Vancouver, premier site de consommation supervisée (SCS) légal, en 2003 – près de deux décennies avant l’ouverture du premier site du […]
Overdose prevention centres should be everywhere
Very encouraged to read about the positive news that the Safer Drugs Consumption Facility in Glasgow, the first of its kind in the UK, will finally open its doors in October. As a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, I have […]
Global Commission on Drug Policy – Accountability for Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines: Ending the War on Drugs
(Geneva, Switzerland - 11/03/2024) The Global Commission on Drug Policy acknowledges the arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who was detained at Manila's international airport on March 11, 2025, following an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court [...] Global Commission on Drug Policy – Ontario’s Harmful Backslide: A Threat to Lives and Canada’s Legacy in Harm Reduction
(Geneva, Switzerland - 11/21/2024) The Global Commission on Drug Policy is deeply concerned about the legislation tabled in Ontario, “Safer Streets, Stronger Communities Act”, which threatens to dismantle nearly half of the province’s supervised consumption sites (SCS) by March 2025. [...]
Canada’s harm reduction legacy is under threat. We must not turn back
Louise Arbour is a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy and a former UN high commissioner for human rights. Helen Clark is chair of the Global Commission on Drug Policy and a former prime minister of New Zealand. […]