Dr Deus Mubangizi, Director, Health Products Policy and Standards Department, World Health Organization. It will be important to understand the process we went through. For critical reviews, if we need more expertise, we issue a call. In this case, because of the nature of the request, we issued an open call for experts. A number …
European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies (ENCOD)
48th meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) – Public information session – 20 October 2025
While the CND Blog usually covers meetings of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, we are exceptionally reporting on this public session of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence due to its direct relevance to the forthcoming CND vote on the scheduling of the coca leaf, expected in March 2026. The forty-eighth Expert Committee on Drug Dependence …
Informal NGO dialogue with the INCB President
VNGOC: Welcome to Jallal Toufiq, the President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), and Mark Colhoun, the INCB Secretary. International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC): With the USAID program cuts to vital health products, including ARVs in the lowest resource countries, we can expect an escalating pain burden and demand for essential …
Informal Civil Society Dialogue with OHCHR, UNAIDS & UNDP
Augusto, VNGOC. Thank you very much for being here today in the room and online. We have 18 questions so let’s start the process now. For ALL: Eurasian harm reduction association / Eurazijos žalos mažinimo asociacija. My question is about planned coordinated actions to get governmental commitments to decriminalize drug use and possession for personal …
Informal Civil Society Dialogue with the CND Chair
Informal Civil Society Dialogue with the CND Chair 21 March 2024 at 09AM – 10AM CET (C-CR-7 & via MS Teams) Penny Hill (Moderator, VNGOC): Welcome everyone Philbert Abaka Johnson, CND Chair: We cannot achieve optimal results unless everyone is involved in addressing the world drug problem. You play a valuable role, and at a …
Item 6. Follow-up to the implementation at the national, regional and international levels of all commitments, as reflected in the Ministerial Declaration of 2019, to address and counter the world drug problem (cont.)
Chair: Welcome back to the discussion of Item Number 6. I will begin by giving the floor to Uganda. Uganda: Chair, allow me to congratulate you as Chair and commend the member states to their important work. Uganda affirms that the fight against the World Drug Problem is the shared responsibility of all UN member states. …