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Background Youth RISE is currently developing and piloting a multilingual elearning platform. Modules on drug policy, harm reduction and advocacy are currently being piloted. This piece of work will produce modules on public health and human rights issues affecting young people who use drugs and other inadequately served populations.  Tasks: Youth RISE is seeking to…

Julius Nyanda joined the International Working Group team at the end of March, as our Uganda representative, just in time to attend this year’s United Nations (UN) Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) as part of Youth RISE’s team. Here is his experience, from an interview with our International Communications Officer, Ruby Lawlor. Have you heard…

Youth RISE is partnering with Harm Reduction Journal and Filter for a Special Series on “Young people, drugs and harm reduction”. The series is supported by through the Robert Carr Fund. Details are below: Guest Editors:Dr. Alissa Greer, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, CanadaDr. Danya Fast, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, CanadaAngela…

Written by Ruby Lawlor, our International Communications Officer. On Thursday 25th March, Florian and Ruby attended the Sixth International Conference on Law Enforcement and Public Health, as moderators of the panel titled; ‘Adverse Childhood Experience/Trauma-Informed Practice: Trauma Infomed Organizations – Current Practice and Future Directions’. The speakers included: Dr Sharon Lambert, School of Applied Psychology,…

On International Transgender Day of Visibility this year, our Executive Director Ailish Brennan made this video discussing existing data and lack of data about how the War on Drugs impacts young Transgender people. Check it out here: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CNFvTL9AhUN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Written by Humberto, our IWG from Peru. English Version Humberto is our reprensentative for Peru and current International Working Group Member. He is a member of Latin America for a Sensible Drug Policy, an international organization that seeks to sensitize and inform the population on issues related to psychoactive substances, human rights, and health promotion.…

End Discrimination. Promote Peace. What is Zero Discrimination Day? March 1st is globally recognized as Zero Discrimination Day. First observed in 2014, the day came about as a result of UNAIDS’ Zero Discrimination Campaign to highlight the necessity of eliminating stigma and discriminatory policies in order to save lives of those living with HIV/AIDS. Zero…

To finish up our series of blogs about the 2020 Small Grants Programme projects, here is how we supported setting up two new organizations working towards our common goal of full spectrum harm reduction. This blog details how these two projects were supported by our grants, in Hungary, by our International Working Group member Beatrix…