Costa Rica raises issues around women’s role in drug trafficking and enters addition regarding such concerns. Egypt wants services for women to be country specific. Russia accepts the general theme of the resolution but seems clarity over some of the wording Norway wants women’s greater vulnerability to HIV to be stated in resolutions title and …
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Official side event – Celebrating 100 years of the Opium Convention
INCB President The event started with an introduction of the international drug control system since the Shanghai Conference in 1909 and the signature of the International Opium Convention in 1912. Since then, a series of conventions were signed: – 1925, the International Opium Convention with the creation of the Permanent Central Opium Board – 1931, …
Plenary Day 2: Statement from Germany
Germany highlights the challenge of legal highs and stresses the importance of greater analysis. Who brings them to the market? What are their effects? And what dangers to they pose in consumers? To combat this new threat there needs to be more sharing of information. Germany also highlights the important role that civil society plays …
Plenary Day 2: Statement from Switzerland
Former president of Switzerland Ruth Dreifuss states that it is important must make sure that drug law enforcement measures do not make it impossible to implement harm reduction measures. She also urges the UNODC to convey to those member states that have signed the relevant protocols to abolish capital punishment.
Plenary Day 2: Statement from Mexico
Mexico consider the reconstruction of social fabric as an important tactic in the fight against drug trafficking.
Plenary Day 2: Statement from France
France states that although it is important to reduce the use of drugs in society, “a world without drugs is an illusion”. They highlight the new threat of new substances and the increasing trend of buying these new substances on the Internet and that it is an imperative to protect their citizens from this threat. …