 Hello everybody, my name is Igor Gordon and I want to present you an initiative from street to government run by EHRN in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region. So a bit of context. There are a lot of factors that contribute to growing of epidemic of HIV in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. But the one very important factor, this is low coverage of harm reduction services that's far below the level that could make impact the course of epidemiological development. HIV prevalence among people who inject drugs in some of the countries is from 10 to 50 times higher than among general population. It's a fact that people who are afraid of police and they're reluctant to seek health care and HIV prevention services. Another key contributing factor to the spread of epidemic is harsh drug policing with its negative consequences. The drug related legal environment and the policy implementation in many countries of our region is far from what we could call balance approach. So in this context the project started in 11 countries and in 2016 last year in cooperation with ERASION network of people who use drugs as a part of international harm reduction consortia supported by Robert Carr network fund. And this project is added value to the existing street lowers programs in those countries to provide legal assistance to people who use drugs and to protect their right and document the human rights violations in ERASION region. So through the engagement of community leaders, advocates and legal advisors and country coordinating mechanism members from communities it was decided to focus on and mobilize around two key advocacy issues. The criminalization of drug use and access for people who use drugs to paint relief and drug treatment. And during last year we gathered about 200 testimonial cases as evidence of human rights violations against people who use drugs and this had then formed the foundation for advocacy work with community representatives and presenting their result at key national and regional forums. The videos and information had been used for national and regional advocacy to highlight to government representatives the extent of the problem and to support the meaningful involvement of people who use drugs in more detailed discussion such as country coordination mechanisms or other task force on national level. And I want to present you a short video as an example on how the initiative works. Another video challenge. This story is about the success of community legal support and video recommending of cases of torture in the name of drug treatment. I am Alexei Konorayevsky, a street lawyer in Russia. For many years I witnessed thousands of people locked in private drug treatment centers where they are often subjected to physical violence, cruel and degrading treatment. Most victims are afraid of taking action including due it to the lack of any support from people they would trust too. As a person who use drugs and a lawyer I talk to many of them. Together we started video recording victims testimonies. Nobody agreed to talk with open face but we managed to record many hours of very detailed accounts about horrible practices. With the consent of victims the videos were released to mass media. The story of torture in the name of drug treatment got local and federal media attention. More victims agreed to talk in front of the camera. Some victims decided to go further and file official complaints to law enforcement. As a result the prosecutor's office inspected over 30 privately run drug addiction rehabilitation centers. 19th centers were closed due to the discovered violation of law. The criminal investigation is ongoing. With an appropriate technical assistance street lawyers project can be a very effective vehicle to bring justice to people who use drugs and other most vulnerable communities. So during last years it was one of the example successful example of using video testimonies in advocacy and so they succeeded to close those very bad rehabilitation centers. And during last year we so all together 10 street lawyers from community member from communities in those countries in seven countries received also small grants to do an advocacy on national and local level and also to do a mobilization and 14 street lawyers and seven CC and country coordinating mechanism members participated in the training on protecting rights and it's very important that from the very beginning we involved in this work community members of country coordinating mechanism of the global fund because they have a platform to show all those cases but they need arguments and facts to to effectively do an advocacy and also we used an interactive learning model to expand the opportunities for people to learn about their rights and this is one of the these training model tools developed by EHRN we used for street law schools and we also provided small grants to organize these kinds of schools in countries so some practical lesson learned from this project. So street lawyers may carry with them documented examples of successful cases to use them as a showcase for motivation of clients mediation is not bad if mediation led by to effectively completed cases it's a success and video documentation with hidden faces also works well here such materials is very easy to distribute and also to present to media if the client is not ready to open the face but the described problem is really systematic issue it's worth to collect more same problem cases and combine them in the form of report to draw attention to the problem in the process of work it is this is necessary to collect and analyze the reasons why people don't want to protect their own rights and it is important to inform clients properly so they don't have false expectation from street law but have a clear understanding that their efforts are important not only for them personally but for the community as a whole yeah and without reforming drug policy there are no effective response to HRE and other other problems in community of people who use drugs thank you