‘International’ Archives
Users Voice in Afganistan
HUNDREDS of thoughts, memories and insights are flooding my consciousness about my week in Afghanistan, mainly Kabul. While the few bacteria settle down in my gut and bloodstream, let me try and articulate some of this to you all around the world. First of all, I want to address the gender-sex-’equality’ issue, as it is the one that I [...]
Campaign targets Malaysia to end death penalty for drug offences
From March 8 to 12, 2010 during the yearly meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, governments from all over the world will once again declare their support to the global fight against drugs, i.e. the substances that were prohibited worldwide by a UN Convention in 1961. In Malaysia, as in 21 other countries in the [...]
Why we need an international network of drug user activists.
We are people from around the world who use drugs. We are people who have been marginalized and discriminated against; we have been killed, harmed unnecessarily, put in jail, depicted as evil, and stereotyped as dangerous and disposable. It is now time to raise our voices as citizens, establish our rights and reclaim the right to be our own [...]
