Chair: Welcome. Today, to promote participation, we are conducting this meeting in a hybrid format. I welcome all our panelists, youth ambassadors, and the 26 registered speakers. WDR is historically launched on World Drug Day which is a very important day for us all to advance SDGs and build back better. The theme this year …
From Others
Side Event: Open Wound: Extrajudicial Drug War Killings in 2022
Organized by the DRCNet Foundation with the support of the Asian Human Rights Commission, the Associazione Luca Coscioni and the Forum Droghe Opening remarks Marco Perduca (Associazone Luca Coscioni & former Senator, Italy): This is a panel that follows up similar events that the DRCNet has been organizing for the last six years to try and …
Committee of the Whole L4 Strengthening international cooperation to comprehensively address the links between illicit drug trafficking and illicit firearms trafficking
Chair: Straight to PP9 please. It seems to be acceptable to delete PP9? US: We appreciate efforts to find compromise, but we do not share the view that the UNTOC, UNCAC are inappropriate in this forum – we want this clearly understood. Chair: Ok, PP9 deleted. PP11? The change will be to delete “programs”, and …
Committee of the Whole L5 Promoting comprehensive and scientific evidence-based early prevention
Chair: We still have a lot of work to do – I hope you’ve had a decent rest and that we can make some progress. Slovenia: Para on gender in OP5 & OP9. Alternative para by Egypt – we are close to consensus. Apparently OP9 is too general. We propose delete end of OP5, keep …
Side Event: Won’t Somebody Think of the Children? Youth Welfare in Drug Policy
Title: Won’t Somebody Think of the Children? Youth Welfare in Drug Policy Organizer: Students for Sensible Drug Policy Co-sponsors: Youth Rise Summary: While the welfare of young people is a key aspect of drug policy efforts, the ability of youth to have direct input in decision-making has been limited. In this side event, young people across …
Side Event: Young Women Who Use Drugs – Breaking the Silence
Organized by the Youth RISE (Resource, Information, Support, Education) Limited with the support of the Women and Harm Reduction International Network This side event is inspired by the ‘Young Women and Drug Use’ position paper by YouthRISE and WHRIN: https://youthrise.org/resources/young-women-and-drug-use-position-paper/ Six young women who use drugs (YWWUD) from around the world discuss the shared and …