Chair: “Very good afternoon, everyone. Excellence Ambassador Jose Antonio Zabelgochia, chair of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, our sister commission ambassadors, excellencies, distinguished delegates, colleagues, and friends, it is my honour to open this special event of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit …
Plenary – Friday afternoon session
Item 11. Other Business Chair: Excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen. We will now resume from where we had closed the session before lunch by adopting L10 and we will now proceed to the consideration of L6 rev. 1 as amended by L10. Is the commission ready to adopt L6 rev 1 as amended …
Plenary – Friday morning session
CND Chair. Today is the last day of our deliberations. Before we start, it’s wonderful to see you all here again. We had 4 days of productive, engaging discussions, wide-ranging conversations on a wide range of issues. We heard from CSOs and other stakeholders, and you had productive and meaningful deliberations. I will only make …
Committee of the Whole – Friday Morning
L5 Safety of officers in dismantling illicit synthetic opioid laboratories E/CN.7/2025/L.5 Russia: USA: We ask to ask domestic legislation domestic law OP1 , OP2 Agreed in CoW. OP7 Agreed in CoW. Poland: Can we see the paras with no agreement? PP5 Chair: Can we remove Iran´s reservation? Iran: Yes. Agreed in CoW. …
Side event – Protecting civil society space in drug policy making: The European experience
Organised by the Eurasian Harm Reduction Association, alongside the EU Civil Society Forum on Drugs, Czechia, Ireland, Poland, Spain, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Union, the European Union Drugs Agency and the Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs With the rise of authoritarian regimes and far-right governments, the adoption …
Side event – Addressing gender inequalities and compounding vulnerabilities in drug policy
Organized by Frontline AIDS LTD. with the support of Portugal, Switzerland, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), the Skoun Lebanese Addictions Centre, the Middle East and North Africa Harm Reduction Association, the International Drug Policy Consortium, …