Organized by the Russian Federation with the support of Algeria, Belarus, Belgium, Chile, China, Cuba, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Singapore, Sweden, Tajikistan and Thailand, and the European Union, the International Narcotics Control Board, and the UNODC Research and Trend Analysis Branch Welcoming remarks by Deputy Minister …
From Side Events
Side event: Peasant’s rights at a crossroads: social and economic rights for coca growers in Latin America
Organized by Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society – Dejusticia with the support of the Center for Reproductive Rights, Coordinadora Nacional de Cultivadores de Coca, Amapola y Marihuana (COCCAM), COORDOSAC, Elementa DDHH, and the Federación Nacional Sindical Unitaria Agropecuaria – FENSUGARO – CUT Isabel Pereira, DeJusticia (Presenter) Nidia Quintero, Coccam Catalina Martínez, …
Side event: Drugs, COVID and the most marginalised
Organized by the International Doctors for Healthier Drug Policies with the support of Release Dr Emily Crick, Chair International Doctors for Healthier Drug Policies (“IDHDP”): The meeting will be recorded and uploaded. I work with IDHDP. We call for better drug policies that center a health and human rights approach. If you’re a doctor and not involved, …
Side event: Legal Regulation through a Development Lens
Organized by Health Poverty Action with the support of the International Drug Policy Consortium and Instituto RIA. Clemmie James, Health Poverty Action. ‘Prohibiton has failed in all aspects of its stated purposs. With only 9 years left to achieve the SDGs, there is much to win by advancing socially just models for legally regulating drugs. This is happening at …
Side Event: Five years of UNGASS implementation – promoting public health and well-being
Organized by Sweden with the support of Denmark, Finland and Norway, and the UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section and the World Health Organization Opening remarks • H.E. Ambassador Kjersti E. Andersen, Permanent Representative of Norway to the UN in Vienna: We are, in many ways, siblings – sharing more political similarities. There are some …
Side event: COVID and the Mekong: how the drug situation has changed and what it means for the future
UNODC (moderator, Lilli Sang, Regional Office for Southeast Asia): In the past few years, we have witnessed the continual expansion of drug markets, including manufacturing and trafficking, in the Mekong region to be shipped out to profitable markets in the region. Today’s side event will bring some opportunities to reflect on the reasons behind this. …