HE General Paiboon Koomchaya, Minister of Justice of Thailand. I welcome all our high level participants. We place high priority to push forward alternative development in addressing the world drug problem to address the root causes such as poverty via public health, education and social security. AD was recognised as a cash crop substitution programme. Now …
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UNGASS roundtable 3: Cross-cutting issues: Drugs and human rights, youth, women, children and communities
GRULAC – H.E. Ana H. Chacon, Vice President, Costa Rica – Costa Rica never saw drug use as a crime, but as a problem to be dealt with from a health perspective. We didn’t put people in prison for using drugs. In 2002, passed a law to use 60% of resources from seized drugs to …
UNGASS Roundtable 2: Supply reduction and related measures
Chair: Opens session. We seek to put through a number of questions on how to enhance cooperation, and we seek to look at the obstacles that apply to this. How can we improve the capacity of different entities to face new challenges, including the use of the internet in trafficking drugs? A new question that can …
Side event – A coordinated regional response to drug production, trafficking and use in the Mekong
Moderator – Jeremy Douglas, UNODC in Southeast Asia Deputy Minister of Vietnam: I will introduce the challenges faced in tackling drugs in the Mekong region, on behalf of the six countries involved in this project. Starting in 1993, it has been two decades since the UNODC and sub-Mekong countries started suppressing drugs. The MOU in …
Side event – Amphetamine-type stimulants: Working towards humane drug policies
Welcoming Remarks: H.E. Gen.Nivat Meenayotin, Vice Minister of Justice, Thailand Visionary leader, leading role in women prisoners….results in betterment of women prisoners.formulating drug laws on proportionality of sentencing, Bangkok rules, human treatment of women prisoners and offenders. Counter ATS expertise. Chair: Associate Professor Dr. Apinun Aramrattana, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Thailand Growing and expanding …
Resolution L10. Promoting the implementation of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Alternative Development (continued)
Initial draft of resolution can be found here. Chair: Now it the time for action. So, we have the text of L.10. PP.1 & PP.2 Thailand: thank you, madame ambassador. Thanks for you leadership and decisiveness. On behalf of the co-sponsor of this resolution. Given the late status of this resolution. We would like to …