Mission Statement
Youth RISE mobilizes youth to be engaged in full spectrum harm reduction and drug policy reform to promote health and human rights.
Our Team
Florian
Project Manager
Ishwor
Project Manager
Ailish
Communications Officer
Wiqas
International Working Group Member
Daniel
International Working Group Member
Oğuzhan (Oz)
International Working Group Member
Mayank
International Working Group Member
MJ
International Working Group Member
Sandeep
International Working Group Member
Mariam
International Working Group Member
Joana
International Working Group Member
Eliza
International Working Group Member
Kelly
International Working Group Member
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Join our Team!
Youth RISE is currently expanding its International Working Group. We encourage applications from young people who are interested in drug policy, and would love to work on related issues internationally as well as on the national level.
Latest news
Civil Society Meets to Discuss Decriminalization in Ghana
Youth RISE joined a coalition of drug policy reform civil society organizations to discuss and to assess opportunities for advocacy around the Narcotics Commission Bill (NCC bill 2019) before the…
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Youth RISE Annual Report
Youth RISE are today happy to announce the launch of our 2019 Annual Report. The report outlines the work we have done across the world ranging from local and regional…
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Harm Reduction Consortium Meeting
As part of our Robert Carr Network Fund Civil Society Grant, Youth RISE have this week been attending meetings in Beirut. The meeting, hosted by MENAHRA, included presentations of our…
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Communications Officer Vacancy
Youth RISE are hiring! We are looking for a candidate to fill the currently vacant part-time role of Communications Officer. We are looking for a candidate to work remotely and…
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Latest blog
Setting the Records Straight: Response to CSOs calling for criminalisation…
This statement has been released in conjunction with West Africa Drug Policy Network, Drug Policy Network -Ghana, Harm Reduction Alliance Ghana, Students for Sensible Drug Policy- Ghana, Students for Drug Policy Reform Ghana, Hemp Association of Ghana. We have read…
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Politics and Harm Reduction: Four Countries’ Syringe Access Stories
Written by Iga Kender-Jeziorska Drug policy varies greatly among European countries, despite common foundations in UN treaties or EU strategies. In this article I’ll review syringe service programs (SSPs) in four East-Central European countries—the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary,…
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LxAddictions 2019
The 2019 Lisbon Addictions Conference took place in beautiful surroundings on the banks of the Tagus River estuary. The conference took on a wide ranging theme with many sessions discussing the methodology of medical academic research papers, while others gave…
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Youth RISE Hosts Annual Meetup and E-Network Summit
Written by Kelly Ebbert July was a big month for Youth RISE as we held our annual meetup in Nida, Lithuania, and we hosted the first of its kind E-Network Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. We went into our annual internal…
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