Organized by Lithuania with the support of Czechia, and the Council of Europe – Pompidou Group and the Eurasian Harm Reduction Association Full recording available here Elena Hedoux, Senior Programme Officer of Council of Europe – Pompidou Group: The Pompidou Group recognises the importance of civil society participation as an important element of the democratic process …
Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA)
Side event: Let’s talk about drugs – substance education among the youth
Side event organised by Youth Organisations for Drug Action with the support of the Eurasian Harm Reduction Association. Eliza Kurcevic, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association. Thanks for joining us, we have great colleagues and partners joining us today to share their experience of how they are educating people on drugs. A few years ago, we identified a …
Side event: The rights of women who use drugs
Moderator, EHRA: Dear friends, Thank you for joining, you can choose Russian or English as the language for this event, we will have simultaneous interpretation. Hello from Georgia – typically I represent an organization for women who use drugs. I’m welcoming all our participants on our joint event with the Alliance for Public Health and …
Side event: Improving Prevention: Prioritizing Effective Approaches and Secondary Prevention
Organized by the New Zealand Drug Foundation with the support of Canada, and the Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation, the Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA) and Youth Organisations for Drug Action Eliza Kurcevic, Moderator, EHRA: Thank you for joining us once again, and in the beginning I would like to inform you that our side event …
Informal Dialogue with the UNODC Executive Director
VNGOC: Ms. Waly could not make it. Jean Luc Lemahieu – UNODC: I had the fortune to be working as and working with civil society in my career. I welcome the fact that some 90 NGOs are attending CND and most of side vents are organized by you or with you. Civil society participation is …
Informal dialogue with the WHO

Lucía Goberna (VNGOC): Welcome Vladimir Pozniak (WHO): Thank you for being here, we hope this will become a tradition at CND. Kenzi Riboulet (FAAAT): There are three departments of WHO concerned with matters related to controlled drugs: Health products (EMP), Substance abuse (MSA), and Traditional/Complementary medicine (T&CM). What collaboration, coordination or cooperation exists between these …