Recording in English: Recording in Spanish: Juan Fernandez, IDPC: Dear colleagues, panellists and participants, My name is Juan Fernandez Ochoa, I work with the International Drug Policy Consortium and it is a pleasure to welcome you to ‘Decriminalisation in the Americas: Towards a more humane drug policy’, a side event on the margins of the …
Centre on Drug policy Evaluation (CDPE)
Side event: The shortcomings and side effects of substance scheduling
Organised by the HIV Legal Network with the support of Canada, the Netherlands, the Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation, the International Drug Policy Consortium, the Transform Drug Policy Foundation and the Transnational Institute [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpTrauKAi98&w=560&h=315] Steve Rolles, Transform Drug Policy Foundation. It goes without saying that we are expressing our solidarity with Ukraine. Our event …
Informal Dialogue: INCB President
VNGOC Deputy Secretary Penny Hill: Welcome to the VNGOC’s Informal Dialogue with the INCB President. I’m Penny Hill, Deputy Secretary of the Board of the Vienna NGO Committee. I’d like to welcome you all to this Informal Dialogue with the INCB President today. Mr. Cornelis Pieter De Joncheer is joining us today as the INCB …
Informal dialogue: UNODC Executive Director
Jamie Bridge, Chair, VNGOC: I’m Jamie bridge. I’m the chair of the Vienna NGO committee on drugs and we’re really grateful to Ms Ghada Waly and to other senior colleagues from UNODC for joining us today and for giving us this opportunity. These informal dialogues have been a regular part of the CND proceedings now …
Side Event: Inequities Laid Bare: Responding to Challenges of COVID-19 and Beyond

Organized by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction with the support of Canada, and the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, the Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation, the Community Addictions Peer Support Association (CAPSA), the HIV Legal Network and the Thunderbird Partnership Foundation How has the COVID-19 pandemic worsened existing inequities and negatively affected priority …
Side Event: Protecting civil society space at times of COVID-19: Lessons learned for advocacy

Organized by the Youth Organisations for Drug Action (YODA) with the support of Australia, Canada, Mexico and Switzerland, and the Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation, Frontline AIDS, and the International Drug Policy Consortium In March 2020, the World Health Organization characterised COVID-19 as a pandemic, prompting governments around the globe to declare a state of …