Informal Dialogue with the UNODC Executive Director Ms. Ghada Waly, Wednesday 10.30-11.30 Opening remarks Jamie Bridge, VNGOC: This is a meeting that we hold every year. And I’m really pleased that we’ve continued this tradition that we have with the Vienna NGO committee to have this informal dialogue and this opportunity for civil society to ask …
International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC)
Side Event: Drug policy in Asia: the importance of intersectional perspectives
Organized by the International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific with the support of the Health and Opportunity Network, the International Drug Policy Consortium, and the Persatuan Insaf Murni Malaysia [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WrkilXc9cU&w=560&h=315] The impacts of drug policies are not the same for every person. They can differ according to ethnicity, gender, sexuality, citizenship and …
Side event: The green wave hits Europe: Recent cannabis regulation initiatives in Europe
Event co-sponsored by: Forum Droghe, Associazione Luca Coscioni, ICEERS, IDPC, reLeaf Malta, TNI, Transform, WOLA [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6kGiTD_QQw&w=560&h=315] The event recording is also available here. Susanna Ronconi, Forum Droghe. We know that the reform of cannabis is going on in Europe with different outcomes. Malta has already decriminalised personal use and possession. Luxembourg, Germany, Italy and others …
Plenary Item 9. Contributions by the Commission to the work of the Economic and Social Council, in line with General Assembly resolution 72/305, including follow-up to and review and implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Chair: Recalls legal basis for this agenda item and the work of the UN CND on matters related to the SDGs. Declaration L2 will be submitted to ECOSOC as a contribution. Secretariat: As you mentioned, the CND and also the sister commission, CCPCJ, are both functional commissions of ECOSOC. Thereby also asked to contribute to …
Informal Dialogue: INCB President
VNGOC Deputy Secretary Penny Hill: Welcome to the VNGOC’s Informal Dialogue with the INCB President. I’m Penny Hill, Deputy Secretary of the Board of the Vienna NGO Committee. I’d like to welcome you all to this Informal Dialogue with the INCB President today. Mr. Cornelis Pieter De Joncheer is joining us today as the INCB …
Informal Dialogue: WHO representatives
(Please note that, unfortunately, the first half of this informal dialogue was not recorded. If you have a copy that we could use to produce transcriptions, please do not hesitate to get in touch). Ricardo Pareyda, Veterans Action Council: How can cannabis and cannabinoid medicines benefit from the numerous WHO programs on patient safety & pharmacovigilance, …