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What do volunteers do at the HCLU? We are currently looking for native English speaker volunteers as proofreaders in our translation projects. We usually translate legal awareness-raising articles, reports, and occasionally legal documents from Hungarian – but legal expertise is not a requirement. These high-quality translations help us communicate our work to non-Hungarian speakers in Hungary and abroad, and help present our cases internationally. We ask for a few hours of your time per week, but as projects are undertaken on a case-by-case basis, we are flexible about tailoring the workload to your availability. We currently have more than fifty active volunteers, who gifted more than 2000 person-hours to our organisation in 2020 alone. Their support, spirit, expertise and perseverance helps us make the HCLU’s work visible to more and more people every year. If you would like to join the HCLU’s volunteer team, please complete the application form below, send us a short CV and cover letter, and our Volunteer Coordinator will contact you shortly.

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Insite - Not Just Injecting, But Connecting

Last year the HCLU's video advocacy group traveled to Vancouver to film about Insite, the only legally operating injecting facility in North-America. When we have arrived to Hastings Street, Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, where Insite is located, we were taken aback by the magnitude of the street drug use scene we found there. Hundreds of marginalized people live on the streets -- they are virtually homeless because I would not call those crowded staffy buldings home where they get cheap a bed and breakfast. A lot of them come from other parts of Canada, where the climat is colder and there are no services like Insite, and all the other health and social services the Portland Hotel Society provides to drug users.

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Desde el año pasado un grupo de organizaciones de la sociedad civil, en una iniciativa de Transform Drug Policy Foundation (TDPF), inició una campaña internacional para dar a conocer los costos "no intencionales" de la guerra contra las drogas y las graves violaciones a derechos humanos que el sistema internacional de control de drogas implica.

La campaña Count the Costs identifica siete tipos distintos, uno de ellos, los derechos humanos.

Con este tema, "The Human Rights Costs of the War on Drugs" es el primero de siete cortometrajes documentales realizados por la Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU).

* Información de: Open Society Fundation

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The Human Rights Costs of the War on Drugs

"We are seen as non-citizens. And because we are non-citizens, we can be scapegoated. This allows governments to say you are criminal, you are bad, you are evil; and therefore we can lock you up, we can take away your rights, we can torture you, and we can execute you if you sell drugs."

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In case you haven't seen it - this is an excellent video from the HCLU about the wonder that is naloxone. Also, don't forget about our I'm the Evidence campaign. Naloxone saves lives!