🧵 3/3 Read the #UNDP discussion paper: www.undp.org/publications...

🧵 2/3 Keynote speaker Commissioner Ernesto Zedillo highlighted the human, social, and economic costs of punitive drug prohibition, stressing the urgent need to move beyond the old conventions and adopt approaches centered on health, rights, and sustainable development.

🧵 4/4: Explore our report to learn more about how drug policy reforms can prevent systemic human rights violations and promote health, dignity and equity.

📖 Read here: globalcommissionondrugs.org/gcdp-reports...

#DrugPolicy #HumanRights #HRC60

🧵 3/4: The event brought together @inpud.bsky.social, #OHCHR, Marta Machado (National Secretary for Drug Policy, Brazil), H.E. Ambassador Gustavo Gallón (Permanent Mission of Colombia to the UN) and Charity Monareng (Students for Sensible Drug Policy International (SSDP Intl).

🧵 2/4: Commissioner Ruth Dreifuss delivered the keynote, sharing findings from the Global Commission’s 2024 report on the impacts of criminal justice responses to drugs.

Overdose is preventable. Harm reduction works. Communities thrive when health and care guide drug policy.

📖 Read more in the @scottishdrugsforum.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/mv74wjcz

and the #GCDP recent report: globalcommissionondrugs.org/gcdp-reports...

Supervised consumption sites like The Thistle save lives by reducing overdose deaths, preventing disease transmission, and connecting people to health and social services.

They also strengthen community safety and reduce public harms. #OverdoseAwarenessDay