Release and Transform’s Submission to the DCMS Select Committee Inquiry
Release and Transform’s Submission to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sports Select Committee Inquiry on Impact of Covid-19 on the Charity Sector.
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Response to Consultation on Pathways to Work Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper
In this consultation response, we expressed some of our concerns with the Green Paper’s framing and proposed reforms. Chilling Effect and Negative Impact: The proposed reforms have created a “chilling effect” on potentially impacted individuals, including our clients; this has led to heightened anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts due to fears of losing benefits. We…
Response to Right to Recovery Bill Consultation
Release has partnered with Cranstoun, Transform and EuroNPUD in their response to the Scottish Conservative’s December 2021 consultation on the Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill which is being proposed within the Scottish Parliament as a potential act of law. While the focus on recovery and its potential motivations are laudable, many questions remain in its zero-tolerance perspective…
Release and Harm Reduction International’s 2022 submission to the OHCHR
Release and Harm Reduction International’s April 2022 submission to the OHCHR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) on the “Promotion and protection of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Africans and of people of African descent against excessive use of force and other human rights violations by law enforcement officers through…
Joint submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
This submission was put together by the International Drug Policy Consortium, Amnesty International, the Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation, the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales, the Drug Policy Alliance, Harm Reduction International, and Release. Our submission gathers evidence on contact with the criminal legal system as a social determinant of the right to health, and…
Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Release authored a joint shadow report alongside Amnesty, IDPC, HRI and Unjust UK to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Disparities (CERD) who are reviewing the state’s racial disparity within the context of drug policy and its enforcement within England and Wales in July 2024. This report focuses on the discriminatory application of drug…
