Distinguished Members of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,

Elementa is a Colombian-Mexican organization that works from a socio-legal and political approach, to contribute to the construction and regional strengthening of human rights, including the transformation of drug policy to move towards the design and implementation of legislation and public policies on production and consumption of psychoactive substances under a human rights and social justice approach. The Center for Law, Justice and Society, Dejusticia, is a Colombia-based research and advocacy organization dedicated to the strengthening of the rule of law and the promotion of social justice and human rights in Colombia and the Global South, and drug policy reform is one of our key areas of research and advocacy, pursuing socio-legal change to incorporate evidence and human rights into drug policy.