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Metzineres
Metzineres (in full "''Metzineres - Environments of shelter for womxn who take drugs surviving violences''") is a nonprofit cooperative based in Barcelona, Spain, providing shelter for vulnerable and marginalized women and non-binary people who use drugs, including homeless people. The project was launched in 2017 and registered as a non-profit cooperative in October 2020. Services and activities Beyond essential health and harm reduction services, Metzineres includes services of cover basic needs such as shower, access to internet, hot meals, spaces for peer-support, modalities to engage with neighborhood communities, help to entrepreneurship, art and cultural activities, webradio, as well as a needle and syringe programme and a supervised injection site. Metzineres also engage in advocacy such as demands for heroin-assisted treatment. Because of barriers to access to healthcare and institutional gaps, marginalized women and non-binary persons who use illicit drugs may not ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
INPUD
INPUD (International Network for People who Use Drugs) is an international Nonprofit organization, non-profit organization grouping local groups and collectives of people who use illicit drugs, which aims at "A world where people who use drugs are free to live their lives with dignity." INPUD was founded in 2006 in Vancouver, Canada, and formally launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 1 November 2008. History Although drug users' activist groups have existed all across the world for decades, the inception of an international network of people who use drugs traces back to Canada. On the one hand, in practice, in British Columbia, the leadership of local users groups such as Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, VANDU inspired the creation of a broader network. According to Kerr ''et al'', "in 1997 a group of Vancouver residents, including drug users, activists, and others, came together to form a drug user organization as a means to addressing the health crisis among local injecting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UNODC
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC; French: ''Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime'') is a United Nations office that was established in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division in the United Nations Office at Vienna, adopting the current name in 2002. The agency's focus is the trafficking and abuse of illicit drugs, crime prevention and criminal justice, international terrorism, and political corruption. It is a member of the United Nations Development Group. In 2022–23, it had an estimated biannual budget of US$822 million. History The United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division in the United Nations Office at Vienna were merged to form the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention. This was renamed United Nations Office on Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Drug Policy Consortium
The International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) is a global network of nearly 200 NGOs. IDPC's vision is described as "Drug policies that advance social justice and human rights". The IDPC secretariat has offices in London (UK), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Accra (Ghana) and Bangkok (Thailand). IDPC's advocacy positions are based on five core policy principles. These principles are that drug policies should: #Be developed through an objective assessment of priorities and evidence. #Comply with national, regional and international human rights principles, laws and standards. #Focus on reducing the harmful consequences, rather than the scale, of drug use and markets. #Promote social justice and the inclusion of marginalised groups, rather than focus on punitive measures towards them. #Be developed and implemented based on open and constructive relationships with civil society and affected populations. History The IDPC network formed in the mid-2000s, but was formalized following a "G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nations General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; , AGNU or AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ. Currently in its Seventy-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, 79th session, its powers, composition, functions, and procedures are set out in Chapter IV of the United Nations Charter. The UNGA is responsible for the UN budget, appointing the non-permanent members to the United Nations Security Council, Security Council, appointing the UN secretary-general, receiving reports from other parts of the UN system, and making recommendations through United Nations General Assembly resolution, resolutions. It also establishes numerous :United Nations General Assembly subsidiary organs, subsidiary organs to advance or assist in its broad mandate. The UNGA is the only UN organ where all member states have equal representation. The General Assembly meets under President of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of The United Nations General Assembly
The president of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis. The president is the chair and presiding officer of the General Assembly. Election The session of the assembly is scheduled for every year starting in September—any special, or emergency special, assemblies over the next year will be headed by the president of the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA. The presidency rotates annually between the five United Nations Regional Groups, geographic groups: African Group, African, Asia-Pacific Group, Asia-Pacific, Eastern European Group, Eastern European, Latin American and Caribbean Group, Latin American and Caribbean, and Western European and Others Group, Western European and other States. Because of their powerful stature globally, some of the largest, most powerful countries have never held the presidency, including the five permanent members of the United Nations Secu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of HIV/AIDS
This is a timeline of HIV/AIDS, including but not limited to cases before 1980. Pre-1980s Researchers estimate that some time in the early 20th century, a form of Simian immunodeficiency virus found in chimpanzees (SIVcpz) first entered humans in Central Africa and began circulating in Léopoldville (modern-day Kinshasa) by the 1920s. This gave rise to the pandemic form of HIV (HIV-1 group M); other zoonotic transmissions led to the other, less prevalent, subtypes of HIV. ; ;1930s to 1950s * A range of small scale ''Pneumocystis'' pneumonia epidemics occurred in northern and central European countries between the 1930s and 1950s, affecting children who were prematurely born. The epidemics spread likely due to infected glass syringes and needles. Malnutrition was not considered a cause, as Europe largely had recovered from wartime food shortages. Researchers state that the most likely cause of the epidemic was a retrovirus closely related to HIV (or a mild version of HIV) br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
