Women Who Use Drugs: Key Issues, Violations, and Recommendations

This report outlines key issues (discrimination, drug-related criminalization, criminal pregnancy, stigmatizations of HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence, lack of access to essential health services) and the resulting rights violations including the rights to equity and non-discrimination, to health, to family, to be free from gender-based violence, all as they relate to the experiences of women who use drugs, as well as recommendations to protect their human rights.

Year: 2020
Resource Type:
Report
Themes:
Alternatives to Criminalisation
Human Rights
#PoorNotGuilty
Public Health
Region:
Global
People Groups:
People with Disabilities
People who use Drugs
Women and Girls
Approach:
Coalition Building
Policy Reform
Research
Campaign Partner:
Human Rights Clinic, University of Miami School of Law