Other Substantial Matters proposed by Member States • Challenges to the identification of new illicit drugs: Discussion on strategies and approaches by laboratories to enhance the capacity of forensic personnel and harnessing technology to improve identification methods • Harm reduction measures • Drug Policy: social determinants, disproportionate impacts, and barriers to service access • Current …
From Intersessional Meetings
CND Intersessional – Session 5 – Legal, Scientific, and Regulatory Challenges in Scheduling Substances
Chair: Good Morning. Secretariat: (organizational matters + scheduling 101) Moderator/intro: Mr. Justice Tettey, Chief, Drugs, Laboratory and Scientific Services Branch, UNODC: Good morning, dear colleagues. Thank you for this opportunity to address the question you posed about our scheduling system. First, I’d like to say that I couldn’t agree more with the previous speaker regarding the …
CND Intersessional – Session 1 – Expanding range of drugs and synthetic opioids and nonmedical use of prescription drugs
CND Intersessional meeting – Thematic discussions on the implementation of all international drug policy commitments following up to the 2019 Ministerial Declaration Secretariat: (administrative and organizational issues) Chair: Welcome. The topics of the three days of this meeting are identified in the 2019 declaration. One of the challenges is the funding and diversification of drug …
CND Intersessional Meeting
Chair: First and foremost, I would like to welcome you to the first intersessional meeting of a CND during this ssession. To start, I want to ensure that we’re aligned on the significant matters we’ve encountered, particularly regarding the outcome document. First of all though, the floor is the Secretariat’s. Secretariat: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good …
CND Reconvened 66th Session
Chair: Good Morning. The focus of our discussion pertains to Strategic Management budgetary and administrative motions in the context of our economy. Yesterday, in collaboration with the CCP CJ, we deliberated on the Consolidated budget for the biennium 2024-2025 for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, referencing Containers document 5.2 (2013) and 15/2017, …
CND Thematic Discussions // Session 6 – Non-compliance of responses with international drug control conventions & human rights obligations
Chair: Welcome back. The challenge that we will be focusing on this afternoon responses not in conformity with the three international drug conventions, and not in conformity with applicable international human rights obligations pose a challenge to the implementation of joint commitment based on the principle of responsibility. UNODC Scientific Services Branch: I have a brief moment …