 I'm speaking here today on behalf of the international network of people who use drugs. We're here to say that the war on drugs 10 years on has failed completely. We are saying that it is time to put public health first, to recognize that the only science-based policy on drugs is harm reduction, needle exchange, opiate substitution therapies and involving drug users for change. We are here today ready to negotiate the peace. Input is a global network of people who use drugs. We are organized around the desire to protect the health of people who use drugs and to defend their rights or our rights as a community. Till now I have questions from people who say it's so good of you that you're left with. And they get a little taken aback when you say, you know, you haven't quit. I would like to change the state of mind of drug users themselves because a lot of them think that, well, I'm junky, I don't deserve a better life. We should really think about how to make these people feel human beings, the request for their rights, the request for normal life, for health, for non-discrimination. The substance user is also a person who has responsibilities, who is a father, who is a son, who is a brother, who works, who pays for his taxes, who has priorities in his life, who is a university. These are the users who have to go out and say, I consume drugs, I am a citizen, full of rights, obligations. We are today sick of our people being abused, being murdered, being tortured, being offered restricted healthcare, being thrown out of housing, having their children taken away from them. It is time for change. On the 1st of November, on the International Drug Users Day, we made an action and I know there were people in Australia who also made an action and people knew that they are part of a big community and it made them feel better, stronger, you know, they made them feel more sure of what they are doing and why they are doing this. I've been an injecting drug user for 37 years. Input is one of the most important things in my life to me. At the stage for 20 years we've been trying to get an international drug users movement happening and until the internet and things like that, it was impossible to keep us connected. We can reinforce each other, we can reinvigorate each other, we can just help each other. Input gives us a global voice. There are some situations where we need global pressure to be brought to a region. Input has a particular role to interface with the global architecture to talk to the United Nations, to the global funds and other partners involved in international development. Most of the UN and WHO agencies as also some governments in Asia are welcome and encourage now the participation of drug users. We have some very diplomatic successes. We now have resolutions passed both at UNA's PCB, the Programme Coordinating Board and also the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the Managing Body of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. We call on the United Nations to stand for its founding principles of human rights. We cannot have a drug control programme that breaches the very fundamental principles of which the United Nations was formed. It is time to put human rights first and to end the war on drugs and to give human rights to my community. If you are serious about seeing a global network for people who use drugs don't stand on the sidelines waiting to see if we are successful. We have shown ourselves to be effective potential partners. Now give us the resources to help us live out that reality.