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.
Mauro is a well-known Italian AIDS activist who previously worked as a chair of GNP+, an advocate group, and recently works for the International Harm Reduction Development Program of the Open Society Institute. He is a former injecting drug user and he lives with HIV/AIDS.He was interviewed by our crew at the International Conference on the Drug Related Harms in Warsaw, 2007.
Anya Sarang is a founding member of the Russian Harm Reduction Network - an organization promoting harm reduction in the Russian Federation.
Interviewed at the International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harms, Warsaw, 2007.
Dr. Bijan Nassirimanesh is a medical doctor, one of the founders of Persepolis, the first NGO providing needle exchange service in Iran. We interviewed him at the International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harms in Warsaw, 2007.
Allan Clear is the executive director of the New York based Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC, www.harmreduction.org).He was interviewed by our activists at the International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harms in Warsaw, 2007.
The HCLU has offered its opinion on the Draft of the Act and has prepared a top ten list of its most serious short-comings. The wording of the most recent, August issue of the Draft falls below the standards acceptable from a classifying system in a democratic society.
Bijay Pandey is a drug user activist from Nepal, a member of the International Network of People Who Use Drugs (INPUD, www.inpud.org) his group operates a syringe exchange program which is not officially supported by the government. He emphasizes the importance of media advocacy for user groups.