The Civil Society Task Force (CSTF) for the 2016 UNGASS was launched in Vienna on Wednesday 3rd December by the Vienna and New York NGO Committees. The event was chaired by H.E. Ambassador Bente Angell –Hansen of Norway. The first speaker was Aldo Lale-Demoz, Director, UNODC Division for Operations who emphasized that civil society …
MORNING SESSION Chair (Ambassador Khaled Shamaa, Egypt) : He welcomes to the 6th Inter-Sessional meeting of the CND during its 57th session. As part of his role as Chair of the CND, he reported to the Third Committee of the General Assembly on the agenda item in international drug control, in particular on the work of the …
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Harm Reduction Works. Examples from Around the World Invest, Kazakhstan Engage Tanzania Implement Malaysia Funded by UNAIDS, technical support agencies – PWUD. Speaker from Crimea not able to be here for obvious reasons Tanzania Case Study . Often focusing on the problems, etc. May need more development, scaling up, etc. But look …
Mike Trace: Partnership Organized by the Government of Switzerland, the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and the Chatham House For many decades the focus of law enforcement efforts have been put into reducing the size of the market. Need to arrest and punish those caught in this system. …
Peter Reuter The price of heroin has declined steadily in the USA. For cocaine, something more interesting is happening – stable purity, but the price fell sharply in the 1990s with a sharp increase since 2006. Of course, this sharp increase still leaves the inflation below that of 1990. For cannabis, there has been a …