Interactive Dialogue on High Commissioner’s oral update on State response to pandemics (Res. 44/22), UN Human Rights Council 50th Session.

COVID-19 and related governments policies – many overwhelmingly punitive - disproportionately impacted marginalised and criminalised communities such as people in detention, people who use drugs, sex workers, and LGBTI people, and people in need of abortion; as well as older people and persons with disabilities. This led to widespread human rights violations, and ineffective pandemic responses.

This and other pandemics have shown us the importance of centering human rights in public health, and of incorporating the guiding principles of legality, necessity, proportionality, and non-discrimination in any response.

Ajeng Larasati, Human Rights Lead at Harm Reduction International delivered this joint statement with the following co-sponsoring organisations:

1) Amnesty International
2) Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation
3) Dianova International
4) GENDRO
5) Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
6) International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC)
7) International Federation on Aging (IFA)
8) International Harm Reduction Association
9) International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD)
10) Médecins du Monde International Network
11) Penal Reform International
12) Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind (Sightsavers)
13) STOPAIDS
14) Students for Sensible Drug Policy (US)
15) Students for Sensible Drug Policy International
16) Transform Drug Policy Foundation
17) Treatment Action Group

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