Organized by Access Now with the support of the Drug Policy Alliance, European Digital Rights, the International Drug Policy Consortium, the Justice Collective, Release and Unjust UK Mitali Nagrecha, Justice Collective: We need to understand how the police and punishment systems operate today. We started taking a look at the proposal for the cannabis legal …
CND Sessions
Committee of the Whole (Wednesday afternoon)
Chair: Good afternoon. We made some good progress in the morning, and managed to agree on some paragraphs so I hope we can continue with this in the afternoon. We will start with L3 from Chile. Chile: Can we start with the paragraphs that have been agreed in informals, before returning to the others. Chair: …
Side event: Paving the way for the future: Uncovering and addressing blind spots in United Nations drug policy
Organised by the IDPC Consortium with the support of Canada, Colombia, Czechia, Germany, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the United Nations Development Programme Ann Fordham, Executive Director, International Drug Policy Consortium: Welcome to this side event:Paving the way for …
Committee of the Whole (Wednesday morning)
L2. Commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Alternative Development: effective implementation and future perspectives (Germany, Peru and Thailand) Chair: Good morning, I will start with L2 (Thailand), and will then continue with L4 (Belgium) Thailand: Yesterday we made slow progress. We managed to clean up the text a bit …
Item 7. Inter-agency cooperation and coordination of efforts in addressing and countering the world drug problem
Chair: In the political declaration and plan of action of 2009 member states encouraged int agencies, UNODC, WHO UNDP UNAIDs & INCB to engage in dialogue in order to strengthen interagency coordination for a more effective response… Members states reaffirmed the principle rule of the commission as the policy making body of the Un as …
Item 6. Follow-up to the implementation at the national, regional and international levels of all commitments, as reflected in the Ministerial Declaration of 2019, to address and counter the world drug problem (cont.)
Chair: Welcome back to the discussion of Item Number 6. I will begin by giving the floor to Uganda. Uganda: Chair, allow me to congratulate you as Chair and commend the member states to their important work. Uganda affirms that the fight against the World Drug Problem is the shared responsibility of all UN member states. …