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Bolivia, Colombia, PeruDrug Policy

Features 18 Jun 2025

Coca Chronicles #5: The UN Coca Leaf Review and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights

Can the WHO Meet the Moment? Will the WHO confront its colonial legacy and right a historic wrong? The critical…

by John Walsh, Martin Jelsma

Bolivia, Colombia, PeruDrug Policy

Features 25 Mar 2025

Coca Chronicles #4: Conflicted over Coca

Issue #4: Andean-Amazonian Indigenous Peoples see promise and peril in lifting coca ban The possibility of changing the coca leaf’s…

by Pien Metaal - Senior Project Office at The Transnational Institute (TNI)

Two Years After The Repression Of Protests In Peru, Justice For The Victims Is Still Pending

PeruDemocracy, Peace & Security

Statements 11 Dec 2024

Two Years After The Repression Of Protests In Peru, Justice For The Victims Is Still Pending

Today marks two years since the first death occurred during the lethal repression of the 2022 and 2023 protests in…

by Team WOLA

Statements 17 Jun 2023

Joint request to the UN to centre World Drug Day on Human Rights

Monday 12th June 2023 Dear Secretary General Guterres, We are writing to urge you to mark this year’s International Day…

by Team WOLA

Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, UruguayDrug Policy

Research 11 Feb 2020

Cannabis in Latin America: The Green Wave and Challenges for Regulation

A new study by the Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho, CEDD) analyzes…

by Team WOLA

Costa Rica, Latin AmericaDrug Policy, Gender and Racial Justice

Perspectives 29 Jun 2017

Criminal Record Reform in Costa Rica: A Step toward Proportionality and Improved Prospects For Women’s Lives after Prison

This commentary is a joint publication between the Costa Rican Association for Research and Intervention in Drugs (Asociación Costarricense para…

by Team WOLA

Colombia, Costa RicaDrug Policy, Gender and Racial Justice

Features 16 May 2016

Women Behind Bars: Photo Essays Show The Human Cost of Current Drug Policies in the Americas

Across Latin America, the effects of disproportionate punishment for low-level, non-violent drug offenses are particularly severe for women. The following women were convicted and imprisoned for drug offenses in Colombia and Costa Rica. These are their stories.

by Team WOLA

The Impact of Drug Policy on Human Rights

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, VenezuelaDrug Policy

Research 19 Aug 2015

The Impact of Drug Policy on Human Rights

This joint report analyzes the effects of drug policy in the Americas, including the militarization of law enforcement, the criminalization of consumption, the weakening of due process guarantees, mass incarceration, disproportionate penalties, and restrictions on access to health care.

by Team WOLA

El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, United StatesDrug Policy, Peace & Security

Podcast 19 Oct 2013

The Week Ahead: October 19, 2013

by Adam Isacson

Tracking International Anti-Crime and Violence Prevention Efforts in Central America

Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, PanamaPeace & Security, Rule of Law

Research 31 Jan 2013

Tracking International Anti-Crime and Violence Prevention Efforts in Central America

The Mapping of Internationally-Funded Citizen Security Projects in Central America is a joint initiative of WOLA and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to monitor international assistance from multilateral institutions, donor governments, and private foundations to support anti-crime and violence reduction programs in Central America.

by Team WOLA