Co-chair 1: Good morning, we will start. Let me call the 4th round table on the world drug problem. Let me take this opportunity to cordially welcome all of you to the deliberation today. The round-table is entitled: Cross-cutting issues, new challenges, threats and realities. I read Forbes magazine last night, it was stressed last …
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Side event: Achieving inclusive, peaceful and equitable societies. The way forward for drug policies
Organized by the Government of Mexico. Miguel Ruiz Cabañas, Cice.minister of Foreign Affaires of Mexico (moderator) Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director, UN Women | We believe that there is a need to put an emphasis on prevention and on women. Women leadership and participation is crucial. In particular, women needs have to be taken into …
Side event: Alternative Development. New approaches and key elements for the post-UNGASS framework
Organized by the Governments of Germany, Colombia and Thailand and the UNODC. Aldo Lale-Demoz, deputy Executive Director, UNODC (moderator) Yury Fedotov, Executive Director, UNODC| Opening remarks. We congratulate that the outcome document respects the Treaties. This subject of alternative development (AD) is very important, there is even one round table here at UNGASS, and …
Side event: Human rights and the world drug problem
The event is organized by the Government of Uruguay with the support of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES). The objective is to realize a side event in the context of UNGASS 2016 to continue the campaign to promote the inclusion of the human rights perspective in the debate on the world drug problem, given that the facts …
Side event: Contribution of alternative development to implementing the sustainable development goals
HE General Paiboon Koomchaya, Minister of Justice of Thailand. I welcome all our high level participants. We place high priority to push forward alternative development in addressing the world drug problem to address the root causes such as poverty via public health, education and social security. AD was recognised as a cash crop substitution programme. Now …
Side event: Cannabis and the Conventions, the UNGASS and beyond
Organized by the Government of Uruguay, WOLA, TNI and the Drug Policy Observatory. John Walsh, WOLA| Cannabis is the elephant in the room. There is a need to create legal access to cannabis, other that medical. Davis Bewley-Taylor, Global Drug Policy Observatory | I want to give some background about where we stand today. Nations …