Organized by the Government of Switzerland, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Union and the Council of Europe. Jan Malinowski, Executive Secretary, Pompidou Group, Council of Europe: Welcome to this side event on the question of the death penalty. The universality of human rights means we are concerned with the …
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Side event – Bringing human rights into the heart of drug control: Death penalty for drug offences from UNGASS to 2019
Organized by Harm Reduction International. Dr Rick Lines – HRI and co-chair Since HRI founded our DP for drug project in 2007 we’ve seen the issue take on more significance in fora like CND and the UNGASS, but also with NGOs working on drug policy and human rights. It has been an important entry point …
Plenary: Opening of the sixty-first Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Chair Welcome to the 61st CND! All debates will be on the CND website. Thank you to all delegates who have contributed to past sessions. 1st Item – election of officers: The commission elected Kenya as the 1st Vice Chair. 2nd Vice Chair is Pakistan. The Rapporteur is the Netherlands. Mexico serves as Chair. Can we …
CND 60th Session Reconvened – Thursday, 7 December 2017
Note: As the reconvened meeting is mainly concerned with administrative issues, this blog entry summarises the discussions rather than providing the usual detailed account of every intervention and statement. On Thursday 7th December, the meeting opened with a joint session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) and the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal …
CND Intersessional 17th November: The Way Forward – Preparations for the sixty-second session of the CND in 2019
Bente Angell-Hansen (Norway), CND Chair: This is the day I’ve been looking the most forward to. The question is how do we carry what we have done forward. It’s also a specially good day because the Mexican Ambassador is in the room. On behalf of all of us, we congratulate you on the nomination by GRULAC …
CND Intersessional 16th November: Chapter VI, Operational Recommendations on strengthening international cooperation based on the principle of common and shared responsibility
Chair: Welcomes everyone to the intersessional on international cooperation – including those travelling from outside Vienna as well as civil society representatives. The agenda for today is adopted. We will start with agenda item 2: Arrangements for the reconvened 60th session of the CND and for the 61th session of the CND The reconvened will take …