Chair CND: Yesterday we considered the consolidated budget for 2026-2027. I understand that there have been informal consultations during which the draft resolution was amended. The amended text of the draft resolution after these informal consultations was circulated via special message on 22nd November and agreed upon by silence procedure on 25th November. May I …
Side event: Principles on drug treatment as alternatives to conviction or punishment
Candice Welsh, UNODC. Drug use conditions are health issues. Scientific evidence based treatment improves health outcomes and benefits communities in multiple ways. Alternatives to incarceration are in line to international drug conventions and improve health, wellbeing and public safety. In 2015, UNODC launched its first handbook on the subject. This is where the implementation principles …
Reconvened 68th Session CND – 4 December 2025 afternoon
UN TV: Commission on Narcotic Drugs Reconvened sixty-eighth session in Vienna – Joint CND & CCPCJ meeting Annotated provisional agenda [ENG] Chair (CND): We have a full afternoon and will start with agenda item five on implementation of the international drug control treaties. UNODC will report on its evidence-based work, including activities under resolution 66/3 …
Reconvened 68th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs – 4 December 2025 morning
4: Joint reconvened 68th CND / 34th CCPCJ: Strategic management, budgetary and administrative questions Chair CCPCJ: Welcome. We will jointly Chair with the CND Chair. We are broadcast on UN Web TV. Let us proceed with consideration of the annotated agenda. Can we agree? United States: The US objects to Item 10 in the provisional …
Side event: Reintegration of persons released from detention or subjected to non-custodial measures
Mr. Simon Walker, OHCHR. Good morning! I am Simon Walker, Chief of the Rule of Law and Democracy Section of the Office of the United High Commissioner for Human Rights. OHCHR is pleased to organise this special event in collaboration with Costa Rica, Colombia, South Africa and Switzerland, the Global Campus of Human Rights, the Penal …
48th meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) – Public information session – 20 October 2025
While the CND Blog usually covers meetings of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, we are exceptionally reporting on this public session of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence due to its direct relevance to the forthcoming CND vote on the scheduling of the coca leaf, expected in March 2026. The forty-eighth Expert Committee on Drug Dependence …