Eric Gutierrez is the editor of a new Christian Aid report, "Drugs and Illicit Practices, Assessing Their Impact on Development and Governance," which examines four countries where an increasingly active drugs trade has begun to affect development.
With the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem fast approaching in April 2016, it is important to consider the stories of the people whose livelihoods are at stake, writes Christian Aid's Eric Gutierrez in this guest opinion. Their own victories are a model for indigenous advocacy everywhere.