Katharina Kayser (Chair): This is an opportunity to raise questions and concerns and raise your thoughts on what we consider to be a transformative process. We would like to thank member states for their financial support. In UNODC, all projects and programmes need good evaluation to reach SDG 5. My panel: Christina Santillan is our gender …
Side event: National and regional responses to synthetic drugs
Organised by the Government of Australia, Canada and Japan and UNODC Global SMART. HE Dr Brendon Hammer (Australia) Thank you all and welcome. In Australia we a seizing increasing amount of ‘ice’ (crystal methamphetamine). We have established the National Ice Taskforce. Dr Justice Tettey (Chief of UNODC Laboratory and Synthetic Program) I will give you …
Side event: Preparing for 2019: Drug policy objectives and indicators, system-wide coherence and the Sustainable Development Agenda
Renata Segura, SSRC. I thank the organisers and Switzerland for their continued support. Christian Schneider, Switzerland. I will discuss the state perspective on policy metrics. I don’t represent the official Swiss position here, I am contributing to the World Drug Report and Part IV on law enforcement indicators. I am also a consumer of UNODC’s products so …
Special Event: Increasing Access to controlled drugs Post-UNGASS
Organized by the Governments of Australia, Belgium, Italy, Lithuania and Norway, the UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, the International Narcotics Control Board, the World Health Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Union for International Cancer Control, the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Human Rights Watch, and the Vienna and New York …
Side Event: Addressing and reversing the harms of drug control in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Organised by AFEW International, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, the Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice, and the International Drug Policy Consortium Chaired by Ann Fordham (IDPC). Richard Elliot (Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network): To provide a public health overview. Punitive approaches to drug control in the region are rife. But also resources and energy are …
Plenary – Agenda item 11: Provisional agenda for the sixty-first session of the Commission
Russia: Discussion of item 8 regarding follow up to UNGASS should be more inclusive and should be attended by an in depth discussion regarding the implementation of 2009 Political Declaration. We have no certainty that it is advisable to split these two issues into two tracks. This discussion should proceed as a single format as …