The movement to end the War on Drugs is a movement that grows stronger every day. In preparation for the Southern Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Conference here in New Orleans this week, check out highlight’s from this fall’s International Drug Policy Reform Conference held in Denver, Colorado, where more than 1,100 drug policy reformers […]
Louisiana has one of the highest per capita overdose rates in the nation, ranking 11th overall. Last year alone, 15 out of every 100,000 persons in Louisiana died due to accidental overdose. Nationally, 100 people in the United States die every day due to overdose and overdose deaths have become the number one cause of accidental […]
Today marks the 65th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The Declaration was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on December 10,1948, and this day has since been commemorated worldwide as Human Rights Day. This past weekend WWAV staff attended the US […]
Reprinted With Permission by Human Rights Watch’s Megan McLemore (New York, December 11, 2013) – Louisiana state laws and practices that prohibit access to sterile syringes and criminalize sex work contribute to an uncontrolled HIV epidemic and an extremely high AIDS death rate, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The AIDS death […]
December 3, 2013 THIS GIVING SEASON, HELP US BUILD THE VISION! Dear friends, allies, and family, We’re still here because of you. On May 24, 2012, Women With A Vision suffered what could have been a debilitating blow. Our offices were ransacked and torched in an aggravated arson attack; we were left with nothing but the […]