Item 4. Strategic management, budgetary and administrative questions Chair: […] UNODC: 4D – […] gender parity across the UNODC offices. We are further strengthening female representation at all levels. Geographically diverse staff remains a key priority. Our action plan has been enhanced as requested in CND and CCPCJ resolutions. Upholding the zero tolerance policy when I …
Harm Reduction International (HRI)
Side event: Procurement, Pricing, and Access to Controlled Medicines During COVID-19
Organized by the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care with the support of Australia, Belgium, and Dejusticia, Harm Reduction International, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the World Health Organization Participants: Ambassador Ghislain D’Hoop, Ambassador of Belgium to the UN organizations Vienna Dr. Zukiswa Zingela, INCB Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, UN …
CND Third Intersessional meeting: Thematic Session 1- 19th October 2020
Thematic session 1: Drug treatment and health services continue to fall short of meeting needs and deaths related to drug use have increased; and the rate of transmission of HIV, the hepatitis C virus and other blood-borne diseases associated with drug use, including injecting drug use in some countries, remains high; Chair (Standing in) Agenda …
Side event: The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Implementing Fair Trial Safeguards
Organized by the Governments of Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Mexico, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, the European Union, Harm Reduction International, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Zaved Mahmood – Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Under International Law, the use of the death penalty for drug …
Side Event: Health Responses to the Opioid Poisoning Crisis: On-the-Ground Experiences and International Implications
Organized by Canada, and Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs, Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation and International Drug Policy Consortium Fatal drug-related overdose is a pressing health crisis in North America. Highly potent synthetic opioids, including fentanyl and analogues, are increasingly present in the unregulated opioid …
Side Event: Humanizing controlled medicines
Organized by the Center of Studies for Law, Justice and Society, the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Harm Reduction International, and Universidad de la Sabana y Observatorio Colombiano de Cuidados Paliativos Isabel Perreira (International Drug Policy Consortium): Our law in Colombia includes all services, however there is unmanaged pain for many populations which …