Gloria Lai: Welcome to the side event: Ending Gender Based Violence Against Women and Gender Nonconforming People who Use Drugs. To start, Elizabeth Wilde, First Assistant Secretary, Development Policy Division, Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Australia, will be making opening remarks via video Elizabeth Wilde: Australia is pleased to give support to this event. …
Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS)
Side event: Eliminating Structural Racism against Africans and people of African Descent in drug policy legal frameworks and practice
Organised by the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) Asociación Civil with the support of the International Service for Human Rights Luciana Pol, Senior Fellow Security Policy & Human Rights CELS: Customary comment in these events is to say that this is a timely debate. However, in this case, we cannot say that because …
Plenary Item 7. Inter-agency cooperation and coordination of efforts in addressing and countering the world drug problem
Chair: The commission has before it conference room paper ECN 720 21 (?) and note by the Secretariat of interagency cooperation and coordination of efforts in addressing and countering the world drug problem. Pursuant to commission resolution 51/14 relevant decisions of UNAIDS are transmitted to the Commission in a note by the Secretariat on promoting …
Side Event: Exploring the regulation of Cannabis markets in Latin America
Organized by Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales, Elementa DDHH, México Unido Contra la Delincuencia and Washington Office on Latin America Lisa Sanchez, Mexico United against Crime (MUCD): Will discuss Mexico. Introduce what brought us here, what is happening currently with legislative discussions, and what are characteristics of the last bill that is likely to pass …
Side Event: Next steps for data collection on drugs: Experiences from UN agencies
Organized by Mexico and Switzerland, and Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales, European Union, Global Drug Policy Observatory (Swansea University, United Kingdom), International Drug Policy Consortium, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Development Programme and World Health Organization The revised version of the Annual Report Questionnaire is set to be proposed, …
Side event: Drug control policies and the militarisation of security: Reflections on the experience in the Americas
Organised by Conectas, the Brazilian Drug Policy Platform, the Washington Office on Latin America and the Centre for Legal and Social Studies. Today we will be talking about how drug control policies and the militarisation of the Americas are related to each other. There are 2 specific moments related to this context: (1) last year, …