Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

CND intersessional meeting, 22 October 2018: Supply reduction and related measures

October 22, 2018

MORNING SESSION Chair: Welcome – Adopting the agenda. Before we start, let me reiterate a few guidelines: limit intervention to 5 minutes, delegation from the floor please keep it short and feel strongly encouraged to comment and ask questions to the panellists, there will be no list of speakers, the floor will draw the attention of …

CND intersessional meeting, 28 September 2018: Preparations for the ministerial segment to be held during the 62nd session of the CND

September 28, 2018

Chair: Good morning. I have chaired for 9 months now. It is very important that we don’t fight and say one document is more important than the other. Bear in mind that what we are building today needs to be structured but we also need to decide what we propose in December. We need to …

CND intersessional meeting, 27 september 2018: Cross-cutting issues: drugs, and human rights, youth, children, women and communities

September 27, 2018

CHAIR: Good morning to all of you. Welcome back to our third day thematic segment. Today cross cutting issues human rights, youth, children and communities. We will continue with the considerations from yesterday along with a number of statements and presentations. UNODC Justice Section Chief, Valerie Lebaux: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to …

CND intersessional meeting, 25 september 2018: Demand reduction and related measures

September 25, 2018

Chair: Good Morning. I invite the floor to adopt the provisional agenda. No comments from the floor – adopted. Welcome to the third intersessional period of the Commission of Narcotic Drugs’ sixty-first session, the thematic segment of the Continuation of preparations for the ministerial segment of the sixty-second session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, to …

Plenary Session: Item 7. Follow-up to the special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem held in 2016, including the seven thematic areas of the outcome document of the special session.

March 16, 2018

Canada – Canada is a strong supporter of the UNGASS outcome document and is committed to the implementation of its operational recommendations. The UNGASS outcome document not only represents the latest international consensus, but provides a balanced and comprehensive guide for our efforts to respond to the world drug problem. By incorporating key commitments from the …

Side Event: No place for the death penalty in the drug policy toolbox (or in criminal law generally).

March 15, 2018

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 …