It is an unprecedented event that aims to place human rights at the center of the drug policy debate, which until now has been largely prohibitionist and punitive. It will take place from June 2 to 5, with the participation of around twenty experts from Latin America, the United States, and Europe.
Catalonia hosts the International Conference ‘Drug Policy, Human Rights, and Global Co-responsibility’, a space for analysis and reflection aimed at promoting changes in international drug policy legislation, grounded in the protection of human rights and the construction of sustainable peace.
The Catalan Platform for Peace and Human Rights in Colombia, made up of 32 organizations and with over twenty years of experience, is organizing this unprecedented event with the support of the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation (ACCD) and the Barcelona City Council. Its goal is to help place human rights and peacebuilding at the centre of the drug policy debate, which has so far been largely prohibitionist.
The conference will take place in Barcelona from June 2 to 5 and will bring together over twenty experts, researchers, organization leaders, representatives of growers' collectives, spokespersons from drug user organizations, legal professionals, and human rights defenders. Participants will come not only from Colombia and Catalonia, but also from Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, the United States, Spain, and Portugal.
The conference will be held internally over three days, and its outcomes will be shared at a public event on Thursday, June 5 at 5:30 PM at the MACBA auditorium, featuring contributions from some of the conference speakers.
This initiative follows the commitment made by the Platform in 2023 to organize a prelude to the conference that the Colombian government will host on drug policy, as outlined in Point 4 of the Peace Agreement and included in the recommendations of the Truth Commission.
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