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Youth RISE Consultancy Call to Develop a ‘Train the Trainer’ workshop in Access to Justice for young people and other inadequately served populations Background  Young people who use drugs (YPUDs) and other inadequately served populations (ISPs) have a set of unique needs in terms of access to legal services and counselling. As a result of…

Youth RISE is recruiting! We are excited to announce that we are expanding our International Working Group team! If you are under 30 and enthusiastic about drug policy and harm reduction, fill in this form before Wednesday 15th June. More information www.youthrise.org Youth RISE is currently expanding its International Working Group. We encourage young people…

Ailish Brennan, who served as our Executive Director since 2019 wrote the following piece where she explains what it is like to live in fear of violence as a transgender person and a traumatic experience she had a week before she made the extremely difficult decision to resign from Youth RISE. The dangers and trauma…

Written by Carolina Ahumada. The Youth RISE Small Grants Programme is financed by the Robert Carr Civil Society Networks Fund (RCNF) and aims to support community organizations and initiative groups of young people affected by drug policies. These grants are offered to our International Working Group (IWG) Members and their respective organizations. This year the…

Written by Ross Paterson, our Finance Officer. The reasons why people use drugs are numerous. For some, they serve as a form of escape, often leading to harmful patterns of use usually associated with destructive social and personal consequences. Others use drugs for functional purposes, as a means to improve productivity and to overcome challenges associated…

Key populations, including people who use drugs, are vulnerable worldwide under punitive drug laws and inadequate service provision, but during such a time of war and conflict in Ukraine, key populations are even more vulnerable. Here are a list of resources, fundraisers and statements that we have gathered so far. International Network of People Who…

Youth RISE is attending the 65th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) this week virtually. We have been updating daily about the side events attended, and the happenings at the Plenary and the Committee of the Whole (CoW). We are giving the youth perspective and reflection on CND through daily vlogs and through…

This blog was written by our Financial Officer, Ross Paterson. Watch the recording of our side event here! On Thursday 17th March, at the 65th UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), Youth RISE ran its very own side event, in collaboration with the Women’s Harm Reduction International Network (WHRIN) and co-sponsored by Students for Sensible…