World Drug Day 2009

International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking June 26 2009 A call for a more humanitarian drug policies in Latin America This is the day in which the international community mobilizes on behalf of drugs problems. We call attention to the inefficacy of the drug control policies to counteract illicit drugs traffic, as well as the harmful effects that those policies have, particularly within the feeblest links in the chain of drug traffic (drug users, “mules”, urban communities subjected to the organized crime and rural population involved in the cultivation process) who disproportionately suffer the consequences. The successive economic and political crises, as well as the misery and huge social disparities in Latin America, led to the lack of access to health care, educational, and social services. This situation is especially grave for impoverished drug users. The forced eradication of cultivations without economic, social and cultural sustainable alternatives increases the poverty of small producers. The stigma and discrimination suffered by drug users and agricultural workers add more troubles, as well as the penal system’s intervention, induced by the criminalizing legislation that follows the “war on drugs” predominant approach in the region. For all these reasons, we appeal to the governments, multilateral agencies and civil society in Latin America, to consider a more humanitarian approach of drug policies for the region, founded in the full respect of human rights principles. THIS CALL IS SUPPORTED BY: Organization

Country

1. Federico Abuelo Civil Association

Argentina

2. Cordoba NGOs working in HIV/AIDS Network

Argentina [email protected]

3. Drug Policies Forum

Argentina

[email protected]

4. Aylén Foundation

Argentina

[email protected]

5. CITIDAD Foundation

Argentina

[email protected]

6. El Emilio Foundation

Email address [email protected]

Argentina [email protected]

7. Proyecto Cambio Foundation

Argentina

[email protected]

8. Argentina Women Group

Argentina

[email protected]

9. Intercambios Civil Association

Argentina

10. Kiosco Juvenil

Argentina

11. Program Andrés Rosario

Argentina

[email protected] [email protected]

[email protected]

12. S.Se.R en el Sur

Argentina

[email protected]

13. Prevention and Assistance Unit Bahía Blanca

Argentina

[email protected]

14. Bolivian Observatory on Drugs

Bolivia

[email protected]

15. Brazilian Harm Reduction Association (ABORDA)

Brazil

[email protected]

16. Association Lua Nova

Brazil

[email protected]

17. KOINONIA – Ecumenical Presence and Service Brazil

[email protected]

18. Psicotropicus

Brazil

[email protected]

19. Brazilian Harm Reduction and Human Rights Network (REDUC)

Brazil

[email protected]

20. Pernambucan Harm Reduction Network

Brazil

[email protected]

21. Viva Rio

Brazil

[email protected]

22. Accion Andina

Colombia

[email protected]

23. Centre for Research and Assistance to Drug Users (CIAF)

Colombia

[email protected]

24. CONSENTIDOS Corporation

Colombia [email protected]

25. VIVIENDO Corporation

Colombia

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26. Henry Ardila Foundation

Colombia

[email protected]

27. Procrear Foundation

Colombia

[email protected]

28. NGOs working in hiv/aids Network

Colombia

[email protected]

29. Training Centre RECOISS

Costa Rica

[email protected]

30. Ancora Corporation

Chile

[email protected]

31. Programa La Caleta Corporation

Chile

[email protected]

32. Chilean Harm Reduction Network

Chile

[email protected]

33. Training Centre PASSOS

El Salvador

[email protected]

34. Educational and Community Responses Centre A. C. (CRECE)

Mexico

[email protected]

35. Group for a Comprehensive Policy towards

Drugs (CuPIhD)

Mexico

[email protected]

36. Espolea A. C.

México

[email protected]

37. Program Compañeros A. C.

Mexico

[email protected]

38. ICW Panama – PROBIDSIDA Foundation

Panama

39. Archdiocese Social Teaching

Panama

[email protected]

40. Centre for the Study of Youth Economical and Social Problems (CEPESJU)

Peru

[email protected]

41. Research Centre Drugs and Human Rights

Peru

[email protected]

42. Sustainable Rural Development/DRIS

Peru

[email protected]

43. Program ANDA

Peru

44. Foundation Guachupita United Youth Network (FURJUG)

Dominican Rep. [email protected]

45. ENCARE Civil Association

Uruguay

[email protected]

46. Institute for Research and Development (IDES)

Uruguay

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]