Dudu Ribeiro, Initiative Negra for a New Drug Policy. We cannot address race if we cannot talk about race. Yesterday, there was a debate on the resolution L13 around race and it was blocked in the CoW. In Sao Paulo, we had a good harm reduction programme called De Bracos Abertos, it provided support to poor people, drug …
Civil Society Participation
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 …
Side event: How can we make the International drug control system better protect our youth?
Panel: Jane Slater (Anyone’s Child/Transform Drug Policy Foundation), Peter Muyshondt (Anyone’s Child), Fiona Gilbertson (Anyone’s Child/Recovering Justice), Inez Feria, Murtaza Majeed, Donna May (Anyone’s Child/mumsDU) Watch the video of the event onAnyone’s Child website. Jane Slater: These are the real people who are being impacted by our policies. I think there is a lot of …
Side event: Partnership between civil society and law enforcement
Jamie Bridge, IDPC: What impact is your country’s drug policy having? Drug Impact Assessments are not new. The UNODC compiled an Illicit Drug Index that was used in the 2005 World Drug Report but not since then. It might still be used behind the scenes but never reported on again, which is a shame because …
Plenary – Agenda item 6: Follow-up to the special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem held in 2016, including the seven thematic areas of the outcome document of the special session (Friday, March 17, 2017 – Morning)
Chair: It is my great pleasure to start this morning. Everyone who has worked so hard in the COW, congratulations – especially congratulations to the chair. We will continue our consideration of item 6. Uruguay: Thank you. We believe it is of utmost importance that we carry out the right follow up to these suggestions, to …
Side event: Harm reduction in a changing global context
Louise Van Deth, AIDS Fonds. I’m proud to chair this all women panel. The Dutch elections were followed closely by the whole world, it stopped the trend of disasters in elections. Since we are also a small group, I’d also like to invite you, when you have questions and comments, to state your name and say …