Women's Harm Reduction International Network (WHRIN)
WHRIN provides a global platform to reduce the harms associated with drug use by women and to develop an enabling environment for the implementation and expansion of HR interventions for women".
Purpose:
To create and maintain an international network for women and those working with them who are engaged in HR in order to share resources, disseminate materials, provide a forum for discussion and a basis for advocacy and training.
Objectives:
- To provide a forum to discuss the needs of and challenges faced by women who use drugs
- To advocate for national, regional and international bodies to adopt and implement policies and programmes which promote and support harm reduction interventions for women and girls.
- To provide access to high quality resources (including educational material) which assist women who use drugs and/or the people who work with them to improve access to gender sensitive harm reduction services
Activities of Network
- Create a website for communication and the provision and development of accessible key harm reduction training and advocacy resources on, for and by women who use drugs.
- Create and maintain an e-list, clearinghouse and an interactive website to foster exchange of ideas, reports, views, policy and program issues and resources related to women and harm reduction
- Identify and promote models of best practice
- Dissemination of educational materials and standardized training modules on key topics on women and harm reduction
- Adaptation of identified key documents for different regional and cultural settings and translation into high demand languages
- Participate through network members in relevant international and regional level events (including the organization of satellite meetings and other such events).
- As funding permits, develop and conduct training courses and workshops.
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WHRIN at Liverpool
Hi everyone!
Just to let you know WHRIN has a Dialogue Space session at the IHRA conference in Liverpool on Monday 26 April, from 15:30-16:00. Katya Burns (hopefully), Diane Riley and I will be introducing WHRIN and officially launching this listserv to expand our membership and network.
Molly
whrin at liverpool
Hey Molly,
Thanks for sharing this information with us. It is a shame I only just saw this post, nevermind, I'll keep my eyes peeled from now on. :)
Kind regards,
Resa
res_smith124@yahoo.com
Law and women drug users,HIV/AIDS,ARV treatment and freedom
Hello Friends and Sisters
There are so many issues which are closer to women then the rest of drug users that it is hard for me to identify only few.BTW one issue is cosing next one and in the end it appears that whole bunch of problems is cosed by ... simply being a woman.That is why we need WHRIN iniciative very much,also WINPUD(Women International Network of People who Use Drugs).It is important to show that we,women have specific problems,which can be solved by hard work in open-minded atmosphere by inclusive,holistic aproache. I see many problems which we,women are facing as personal freedom issues.Troubles with accepting womens personals choices are causing many discriminatory practice,involving our bodies,minds,families even.
In Solidarity,ready to write more soon
Marianna Masia Iwulska
Especially relevant for friends in the US.
To the more than 2,200 of you who have urged your Senators to protect women's rights and women's health by Ratifying CEDAW: Thank You!
We are more than halfway through the 10,000 in 10 Campaign, and really need your help to reach our goal of 10,000 signatures to support CEDAW.
CEDAW (the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women) was introduced 30 years ago. The US remains one of only 7 UN member states who have yet to ratify the treaty — alongside Sudan, where rape is used as a weapon of war, and Somalia, where female genital cutting is commonplace.
With 2010 around the corner and new support in the Congress and Administration for CEDAW, we are in a new era of hope for US ratification. Help us leverage this new opportunity to remind the Senate that women's health in the US and abroad depend on the protection and promotion of women's rights.
Sincerely,
Sarah Kalloch
Director of Outreach
P.S. Spread the word — if you each get 6 friends, family or colleagues to sign on, we'll surpass our goal of 10,000 in 10!
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I am from Thailand working on
I am from Thailand working on women drug users. The idea of WHRIN conference/meeting is great. I am thinking about develop more work on women drug use, law, justice and legal system in Thailand. Assumlably, WOD may have greatly effects on women than men. What do you guys think?
fantastic to see this all
fantastic to see this all happeining
judexx
Issues of Nepal
Dear Friends,
First of all I would like to thank all the activists for making it happen by creating this forum and I hope this forum will bring us together in achieving WHRIN’s objectives.
We, women who use drugs are most vulnerable, marginalized group in Nepal. Services are very limited where as our counterparts benefit most of the available services in our country. Treatment centers are in the verge of closing down due to the lack of resources. Everything is being centralized and our peers beyond the capital of Nepal are more vulnerable than us from Kathmandu due to the lack of information, services, everything. We haven't been able to reach the other peers in our country who are suffering more than us and needs more attention with urgent response. During my frequent visits to various regions in our country i have found more than 90% women using drugs are unaware of information related to drug led HIV and their basic rights. Furthermore the lack of better opportunities & involvement in the central level from other parts of our country is also one of the key factors that push us back furthermore.
Sad but true, Me as a drug user associated with the 1st service providing by and for organization (Dristi Nepal)in Nepal, found that the situation is quite critical and on top of that no one is bothered about the issues, our vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, human rights are violated everyday .There is no legal services provided by neither by Networks nor Government.
I know we all women around the world share same issues but as a Nepali woman drug user I find issues in our country worse than any other part of the world. What I think is there should be international interventions to put impact on the movement.
We all should unite, work hand in hand so that we can achieve our objectives through involvement, sharing information, planning strategies, exchanging ideas and advocate with responsibilities.
In Solidarity,
Parina Subba Limbu
Issues of Nepal
Dear Friends,
First of all I would like to thank all the activists for making it happen by creating this forum and I hope this forum will bring us together in achieving WHRIN’s objectives.
We, women who use drugs are most vulnerable, marginalized group in Nepal. Services are very limited where as our counterparts benefit most of the available services in our country. Treatment centers are in the verge of closing down due to the lack of resources. Everything is being centralized and our peers beyond the capital of Nepal are more vulnerable than us from Kathmandu due to the lack of information, services, everything. We haven't been able to reach the other peers in our country who are suffering more than us and needs more attention with urgent response. During my frequent visits to various regions in our country i have found more than 90% women using drugs are unaware of information related to drug led HIV and their basic rights. Furthermore the lack of better opportunities & involvement in the central level from other parts of our country is also one of the key factors that push us back furthermore.
Sad but true, Me as a drug user associated with the 1st service providing by and for organization (Dristi Nepal)in Nepal, found that the situation is quite critical and on top of that no one is bothered about the issues, our vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, human rights are violated everyday .There is no legal services provided by neither by Networks nor Government.
I know we all women around the world share same issues but as a Nepali woman drug user I find issues in our country worse than any other part of the world. What I think is there should be international interventions to put impact on the movement.
We all should unite, work hand in hand so that we can achieve our objectives through involvement, sharing information, planning strategies, exchanging ideas and advocate with responsibilities.
In Solidarity,
Parina Subba Limbu
In Regards to issues
I agree.Everything is very centralized. I represent western region of Nepal but i am now in Kathmandu and i see the difference. Friends are so backward. We need to think and help them.
Only Central people get good opportunities. Their pockets are filled with cash and our pockets are filled with trash..Any way i want to say that we must decentralize the whole movement ....
Thank you,
Anju
Butwal
I would however like to add the lack of women yet again
We, you – the User Activists, have been an critical and vociferous part of the conference since its inception inLiverpool 20 years ago and this day was a powerful reminder of who INPUD was, is and could be in the future. It was a statement no one could miss. Nice one!
I would however like to add the lack of women yet again to appear on the opening plenary, it felt even more acute as INWUD (International Network of Women who Use Drugs) was scheduled to have one of its first meetings as an affiliated /integrated arm of INPUD global. We have some exceptional women in the international movement and not enough of them appear on our plenarys.
Hi Olga and Nabinkala,
Great idea about a WHRIN meeting or conference - maybe we could aim to hold it before or after the IHRC in Liverpool next year?
WHRIN, with the support of Release, has the capacity to provide a public library of resources related to women and drug related harm reduction. The library will, however, depend on the input of WHRIN members in firstly nominating key subject areas - then "pooling" materials to form the library (training materials, policy and practice models, guidance documents etc).
The first step will be to identify key topics - for example, IEC for women who use drugs, capacity building for service providers to improve access for women; women, drugs and human rights; etc etc please suggest the sorts of subject areas which would be most useful for you to use.
Many thanks,
Ruth
Hi Ruth, I appreciate the
Hi Ruth,
I appreciate the whole concept and I think we need to do an exercise we have to have need assessments or the focal group discussions with our peers and activists for better outcome. Well, if you give me the task I can do it , share information in context of Nepal.
Parina
We need to have the WHRINs' conference.
Hi, everyone. I'm Olga Belyaeva from Ukraine. I work in Charity Fund "Virtus" and during more 8 years we have been made HR programm for all drug users. And we have only about 15-25% of women who is getting the HR services. But now we need to support more women who needs to have a best models of HR for women.
I use drugs and I have been took substitution therapy for four years.
And in Ukraine we have little HR programm for us. But we are trying to defend our rights and we are making advocacy and services for us by ourselves.
So, I offer to find the money for the WHRIN conference where we can meet and give each other different services models and advocacy companies.
What do you mean about this?
Good luck everyone!!!
Olga
hi!
Dear all,
I am Nabin Kala Rai ,focal person from Nepal's female forum.I have recently joined you all and hope to have a strong coordination and involvement.
FDUs rights,
Nabinkala.