Organized by the Vienna NGO Committee and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Civil Society Team. Esbjorn Hornberg, VNGOC We have organised this side event to report on what we have done with the UNGASS Outcome Document – because we are asked this question by member states. There will be a full report …
Mexico Unido Contra la Delincuencia (MUCD)
Side Event: Cannabis and the Conventions: Aftermath of UNGASS
Organized by the Washington Office on Latin America, the Global Drug Policy Observatory, the Transnational Institute, the Transform Drug Policy Foundation and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. John Walsh Washington Office of Latin America (WOLA) – Moderator: The Outcome Document sought to give states flexibility, and now 1 in 5 Americans live in an area …
Side event: Cannabis and the conventions: Aftermath of UNGASS
Chaired by John Walsh (WOLA). Dave Bewley Taylor (GDPO): I’d like to provide some historical context and then approach the current legal situation. During the UNGASS, the issue was largely ignored; certainly in the Outcome Document. Cannabis is the world’s most widely used illicit substance. Its scheduling had very little to do with scientific evidence on health harms. …
Roadmaps for 2019: The Brandenburg Forum on Drugs & Development
Organized by the Governments of Germany and the Netherlands, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Transnational Institute (TNI) and International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC). Chair: Roland Seeger, Alternate Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany: Welcomed speakers, especially those who also attended a side event in December following-up from the first Brandenburg Forum in …
Side event: Implementing CND resolution 59/5: Mainstreaming a gender perspective in drug policy
Amb Bente, CND Chair. When we discuss SDG 5 and gender, we look into the special vulnerabilities in the health area and the needs of women and how they are being left behind. We must discuss rehabilitation, alternative development and prevention. This is really a key to our work and I think that it also goes …
Informal Interactive Stakeholder Consultation
OPENING SEGMENT H.E. Mr. Mogens Lykketoft, President of the UN General Assembly Welcome to the IISC in support of the UNGASS meeting. UNGASS is a major event in the 2016 GA calendar. What we are facing in these discussions is a transnational threat represented by the world drug problem and representing the common challenge and …