'When the going gets tough’: Leadership change at UNODC amidst global turmoil, UN reforms and drug policy opportunities Ghada Waly’s resignation offers the UN Secretary-General a chance to appoint a leader who will align UNODC with human rights-based drug policies and the broader UN system.

🚨 Ghada Waly, UNODC Executive Director, has resigned. 🚨

The UN's drugs agency stands at a crossroads, and Secretary-General António Guterres now has a rare opportunity to appoint a champion of human rights-based drug policies.

Ann Fordham - @idpc.net, explains in our blog: idpc.net/blog/2025/06...

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🚨 We are not in a theoretical crisis—our American democracy is on its last breath.

But from coast to coast, city to city—the people are uniting.

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“But what has gone under the radar is that Witkoff has personal stakes at play, as he has business ties to Leonard (‘Len’) Blavatnik, an influential businessman with significant relationships in Kremlin circles – and was sanctioned by Ukraine in 2023.“

Going through US citizens’ phones at the border with no warrant and no probable cause

We the people are PISSED!📍NYC / April 19

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The wrong ICE is melting The wrong Amazon is burning

Sign of the day…

CND68: Historic vote initiates overdue review of UN drug control “machinery” Against a backdrop of global turmoil and multilateral rupture, the 68th session of the CND marked a turning point in the history of global drug policy by deciding to create a panel of independent expe...

#CND68 #CND2025 makes a turning point in history by deciding to create a panel of independent experts to review the global drug policy 'machinery'. Read our analysis of what this truly means!

Thank you Judy Chang for your service and wishing you all the very best for your next chapter!!

Activist Judy Chang Talks Narcofeminism and Drug-User Rights For years, Judy Chang has been a leader in the movement for drug-user rights. Since 2017, she’s served as executive ...

“Trying drugs, and pursuing pleasure... is a feminist act."

Judy Chang has led @inpud.bsky.social since 2017, and been at the forefront of the narcofeminist movement. As she prepares for a new role, she discusses achievements and challenges ahead with @carrielouhamilton.bsky.social:

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Pay attention to how disinformation, and the networks that sustain it, prop up Trump. That’s "the belly of the beast." Even the worst policies can be made right in a world of manufactured fake news. Instead, we need to surface "islands of hope." -- Glenda Gloria, Rappler

Meta’s Facebook, Instagram are witnessing a user exodus. Here’s why The company’s move to the right spearheaded by CEO Mark Zuckerberg ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump is causing a user exodus from many of Meta’s platforms. But what do we know...

I have joined the exodus ahead of the inaugrrration. "Mark Zuckerberg’s #maga conversion is now so thorough that he has added Trump’s friend Dana White, the CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship, to the board of #Meta." - david remnick, @thenewyorker.bsky.social

Unjust laws are meant to be broken ✊🏾

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Doctors are opening safe drug consumption sites 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽