Human rights and drug policy: Summary report of project findings and recommendations

This four-year, qualitative research project was a Future Fellowship awarded to Kate Seear and was undertaken between 2021 and 2025. It aimed to generate new knowledge about the relationship between human rights and drug policy, examine the potential for reforming drug policy through human rights, consider strengths and weaknesses of human rights-based reforms to drug policy, and consider whether there are other methods beyond human rights for moving towards more humane and less punitive approaches to drug use, possession and supply.