An Injection of Reason: Critical Analysis of Bill C-2

Bill C-2 (An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act) undermines the rights of people who use drugs to access lifesaving and health-protecting services. Read more about supervised consumption services in Canada and internationally, and their...

Right to Know: True or False? (INTERIGHTS Bulletin)

Russia is home to the fastest-growing HIV epidemic in the world, chiefly driven by injection drug use. However, to the puzzlement of the impacted populations, public health activists and international NGOs that work to battle HIV/AIDS, the Russian government continues...

Submission to the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review Working Group, Sixteenth Session (2012) re: Review of Russian Federation

This report is focused on the implementation of recommendations given to the Government of the Russian Federation by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) regarding access to HIV prevention, drug treatment and overdose prevention among people...