Organized by the Government of Italy, the C4 Recovery Foundation, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Partnership on Substance Abuse, the Levenson Foundation, the Police, Treatment, and Community Collaborative, The Villa Maraini Foundation, the UNODC Drug Prevention and Health Branch and the World Health Organization Dr Massimo Barra, Chairman, Partnership on …
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Side event: The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Implementing Fair Trial Safeguards
Organized by the Governments of Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Mexico, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, the European Union, Harm Reduction International, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Zaved Mahmood – Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Under International Law, the use of the death penalty for drug …
Side Event: Working towards equitable access to treatment of problematic substance use for Indigenous peoples
Organized by Canada and New Zealand, and New Zealand Drug Foundation, Te Rau Ora Ltd and the Thunderbird Partnership Foundation. Michelle Boudreau, Health Canada: Welcome. Sincere thanks to organizers that did an tremendous amount work to prepare for this event. First Nations peoples experience extremely high levels violence and poverty and intergenerational trauma due to …
Social justice and peacebuilding within drug policy reform
Organized by Acción Técnica Social and Instituto RIA Zara Snapp, Instituto RIA / Acción Técnica Social: This will be an interactive session before the presentation. Unfortunately, two presenters cancelled because of travel issues. Int he past, we’ve done this too; because you have interesting experiences that are rarely featured in these spaces. ATS has been …
Side Event: Communities at the Centre: Barriers and opportunities for community led interventions
Organized by International Drug Policy Consortium, International Network of People who use Drugs, Joint United Nations Programme in HIV/ AIDS, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNODC HIV/AIDS Section Communities of people using drugs are at the forefront of increasing access and delivery of health and human rights-based programs. The “Communities at …
Side Event- Evidence-Based Treatment as an Integral Part of the Health System
Chair: Welcome, thanks for coming to this meaningful side event. Spain: The collaboration between the organisations is a good example of collaboration between the government and civil society. They were both created in a similar period. Addictions constitute a public health problem all over the world. In Spain, since the 80s, drug policies are based on …