Organized by the International Network of People who Use Drugs with the support of Czechia, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Portugal, Switzerland, Uruguay, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the United Nations Development Programme, the African Network of …
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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 …
Side event: The right to a healthy environment and drug policy
Organised by the Corporacion Centro de Estudios de Derecho Justicia y Sociedad with the support of Colombia, Czechia, Germany, Paraguay, Switzerland, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights, the Centro de Estudios de Seguridad y Drogas, Elementa DDHH, the …
Side event: From militarised prohibition to intersectional inclusions: A feminist approach to drug policy
Side event organised by the International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific with the support of Canada, Germany, Mexico, Norway, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Association for Women’s Rights in Development, CREA, the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, the Forging Intersectional Feminist Futures Consortium, the Instituto RIA, the …
Informal Civil Society Dialogue with the INCB President
No Borders Humanity Organization (NBH): How is the INCB addressing challenges in ensuring equitable access to controlled substances for medical purposes while preventing diversion and misuse? Southeast Asia Harm Reduction Association (AHRA): Considering the proliferation of heroin and ATS substances, increasing drug use and dependency, and concerns about unintended consequences of drug policies in Southeast …
Side event: The death penalty for drug-related offences: Challenges to restrict its use and pathways towards abolition
Side event organised by Harm Reduction International with the support of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Czechia, Mongolia, Mexico, New Zealand, Paraguay, Portugal, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the European Union, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the United Nations Development Programme, …