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Drug policies are a feminist issue. Feminism must be at the heart of drug policies.

#FeministRealities #WomenUseDrugs #FreeHer
@DawnRHarrington from @freeheartsorg:

'We hope this conversation is a call to action to join the movement to end the incarceration of women and girls across the world'

#FeministFestival #FreeHer #WomenUseDrugs @AWID
@DawnRHarrington @freeheartsorg @AWID 97% of all attendants think that #prisons are *not* designed to accomodate women and gender-non conforming people

#FeministRealities #WomenUseDrugs #FreeHer
Grace Natalia, from WomxnVoice (Indonesia).

'The legal system sees us as criminals. My experience in prison has shown me first hand that prison doesn't help women become better citizens. It only causes pain'.

#FreeHer #FeministFestival #WomenUseDrugs
Monica Marginet from @Metzineres_org:

'When I entered prison I could only think about using drugs. I thought I deserved to be there.

But then I realised that prison is violence, and that rehabilitation is just a pretense'

#FreeHer #WomenUseDrugs #FeministFestival
@Metzineres_org Claudia Cardona, from @corphumanas:

'COVID-19 has made the situation in prison even worse.

In Bogotá, women have been +18 months without seeing their families.

Men are already receiving visits, but women are still waiting.´

#FreeHer #FeministRealities #WomenUseDrugs
@Metzineres_org @corphumanas Kenya Cuevas, from @CTiresias:

‘Trans women in prison undergo violence & structural and family abandonement.

I had to learn to forgive everyone.

Now I´m a liberated woman, an empowered woman, fighting every day.’

#FreeHer #FeministFestival #WomenUseDrugs
Phyllis Hardy, from @thecouncilus

'Women who come into prison are angy. Anger makes you strong, makes you want to fight.

I owe my freedom to @thecouncilus, because they organised a #FreeHer protest in front of my prison.

That’s why I don’t forget women who are still there.'
@thecouncilus Monica Marginet:

'If I had to say 3 things that make @Metzineres_org special:

🧔🏾‍♀️It's a space for women only - we build it together

💜Nobody is sanctioned - or expelled

🏙️We reach out to our neighbourhood and our community'

#FreeHer #FeministFestival #WomenUseDrugs
@thecouncilus @Metzineres_org Claudia Cardona:

We have created @MujeresLibresCo, a network of women who have been in prison. We work on:

🍲Access to food

🩸 Access to menstrual hygiene and sexual health

🏛️Abolishing prison for women

And much more.

#FreeHer #FeministFestival #WomenUseDrugs

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Aug 9, 2021
'The war on drugs and the denial of indigenous rights' is starting now!

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"UN drug treaties forced countries to criminalise the plants that had been at the cornerstone of local communities"

#DecoloniseDrugPolicy
'The criminalisation of indigenous communities continues unabashed today.

Just as the UN adopted the declaration on indigenous rights, the UN drugs regime encouraged countries to criminalise their practices'.

@MarieNougier, IDPC

#DecoloniseDrugPolicy
#IndigenousPeoplesRights
@MarieNougier @LaramaDavid, Vice-President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia:

"The #coca leaf is the basis of our knowledge and culture. It is at the roots of our welfare. Its prohibition by the drug conventions is based on colonialism."

#DecoloniseDrugPolicy
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
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