VNGOC Chair: Good morning and welcome. CND Chair: My pleasure. I love to meet with Civil Society – as a Mexican, I know how important it is for Civil Society to be present so we can keep doing our homework. As CND Chair, it’s also important to have you here. The role you play at …
Civil Society Participation
Side event: Scenarios for innovation: Regulating the coca/cocaine market
Zara Snapp, Acción Técnica Social: For the past 52/54 years, Colombia has been involved in a conflict. Point 4 of the Peace Agreement to end that conflict, is about eradicating [300,000 hectares]. The Government claims it has done half of this. But this is also about integrating people in the formal economy. This will have very …
Side Event: Measuring Drug Policy Outcomes: Intersections with Human Rights and the SDGs
Side Event: Measuring drug policy outcomes: Intersections with human rights and the sustainable development goals Organised by the Government of Switzerland, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy, the International Drug Policy Consortium, the Global Drug Policy Observatory of Swansea University, Centro de Estudios Legales …
Side Event: The role of civil society in the implementation of the UNGASS 2016 outcome
Organized by the Vienna NGO Committee and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Civil Society Team. Esbjorn Hornberg, VNGOC We have organised this side event to report on what we have done with the UNGASS Outcome Document – because we are asked this question by member states. There will be a full report …
Side event: Youth and law enforcement
Florian, Youth Rise (Moderator) I am starting with introduction and we will have questions at the end. Morgana Daniele, International Coordinator of Youth Rise: I start with a short story from my country and then the Yoda context. Last year in my country (I come from Lithuania) for the first time drug use was criminalized a …
Side event: Women, drug policy and incarceration in Southeast Asia
Jane Holloway, Thailand Institute of Justice. The purpose of the event is to share research and findings on women incarcerated in Asia. We also explore promising reforms on gender policy, guided by research and UN international standards. Jeremy Douglas, UNODC representative in the Asia Pacific. We are rolling out the Bangkok Rules through our regional office. My …