Chair: Welcome. Today, to promote participation, we are conducting this meeting in a hybrid format. I welcome all our panelists, youth ambassadors, and the 26 registered speakers. WDR is historically launched on World Drug Day which is a very important day for us all to advance SDGs and build back better. The theme this year …
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Committee of the Whole L7. Intensifying efforts to address the proliferation of uncontrolled and designer precursors used in the illicit manufacture of drugs
Secretariat: There will be an informal on L5 in a hybrid format on BR-A. L7 – Technical amendment. On OP12 & 13 – There is in square brackets ‘or trafficking’. There was an omission to delete this part. Just checking with the CoW. Ok, we can continue. United States: We engaged in consultations, not in …
Committee of the Whole. Resolution L.5. Promoting comprehensive and scientific evidence-based early prevention (continued)
Chair: Good Morning. We begin with L5. Slovenia: We were able to agree on a couple of PPs and OP4 in informals. Chair: Very well, we start with OP4 then. I see no comments, agreed. OP5, OP6 Chair: Agreed. Fantastic. Singapore: In OP6 “drug use initiation among children and youth” when we were discussing this, …
Plenary Item 7. Inter-agency cooperation and coordination of efforts in addressing and countering the world drug problem
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, United Nations Human Rights Council: It is my honor to address the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs to present the study on arbitrary detention relating to drug policies prepared by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at the request of the Human Rights Council and presented to the …
Plenary Item 6. Follow-up to the implementation at the national, regional and international levels (afternoon session)
Chair: This morning, we have had the introductions. By the various offices of the UNODC Secretariat, but we have not yet had the occasion to give the floor to delegates and I will therefore now open the floor to delegates starting with China online. China: Undoubtedly strict control of these substances will contribute to preserving life and …
Side event: Legalizing the drug wars: A regulatory history of UN drug control
Organized by the World Society of Victimology with the support of Mexico, and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime Tuesday Reitano, Deputy Director of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime: Welcome and thanks to co-panellists and co-organisers. Dr Robert Peacock, President of the World Society of Victimology: Criminal groups have wasted no time …