The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union is a human rights NGO. Since our foundation in 1994, we have been working for everybody being informed about their fundamental human rights and empowered to enforce it against the undue interference by those in position of public power.
Danny Kushlick is director of Transform Drug Policy Foundation. A former drug counsellor in the criminal justice system, he founded Transform in 1996 after recognising that prohibition caused his clients more problems than their drug use.
Is sex work always a rape? Can women give their consent to do sex work? Can we speak about harm reduction among sex workers like among drug users? Robin Few was interviewed by our crew at the International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harms in Warsaw, 2007.
Dr Alex Wodak is the Director of the Alcohol and Drug Service at St Vincent's Hospital. He was also President of the International Harm Reduction Association for several years, he is the author (with Ron Owen) of "Drug Prohibition: a call for change" published by UNSW Press. We interviewed him at the International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harms in Warsaw, May 2007.
Annette Verster works for the HIV/AIDS Department of the World Health Organization in Geneva, she coordinates all activities related to HIV prevention. She speaks about the conclusions of an investigation on on prisons and harm reduction which WHO commissioned recently. We interviewed her at the International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harms in Warsaw, May 2007.
Stijn Goossens, the head of the International Network of People Who Use Drugs (www.inpud.org) is speaking about Trek Uw Plant, an interesting social experiment in the city of Antwerp, Belgium. The interview was made at the International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harms, Warsaw, 2007.
Eberhard Schatz is the head of an Amsterdam-based harm reduction NGO, AMOC, which operates a drop-in and consumption room for injecting drug users with foreign nationality.