Addressing the Development Dimensions of Drug Policy

In April 2016, the UN General Assembly will hold a Special Session on Drugs to assess and debate the successes and failures of current drug control policies. UNDP is a member of the UN System Task Force on Transnational Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking, established in 2011 to provide guidance on how to integrate responses to transnational organized crime into UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding, security and development initiatives and to develop a roadmap of key initiatives and activities relating to its mandate.

UNDP and UNAIDS back efforts by least-developed countries to secure sustainable...

Geneva – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) would like to call attention to the urgent and compelling case for the international community to take all measures possible to protect the health of people living in least-developed countries (LDCs).

Helen Clark: Statement on International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia

Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator
Statement on International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
United Nations, New York

The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia provides an opportunity to reaffirm that the rights of LGBT people are a matter of concern to all of us working on human development.

Human beings cannot benefit from development progress if their lives are defined by inequity, exclusion, and policies which treat them as less than equal. This is true of all people who encounter marginalisation and injustice, whether they be women living under laws which fail to provide equal status in all spheres of life, or persons of any gender who are ostracised because of their ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

In Europe, new hope for transgender people

Yana and Anna, supported by a family member, demonstrate against discrimination against trans people – and in support of equality

On 22 April 2015, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a Resolution on the discrimination against transgender people in Europe.