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Side Event: Practical Measures for the Prohibition of Arbitrary Detention in the Context of Drug Control Measures

Organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights with the support of Canada, Ghana, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the Commission of Human Rights of the Philippines, the European Union, Harm Reduction International, the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy, the International Drug Policy Consortium, the International Network of People …

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Side event: The death penalty for drug offences: latest developments and impact on foreign nationals

Organized by Harm Reduction International with the support of Australia, Austria, Mexico, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the Council of Europe – Pompidou Group and the European Union and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Right Full recording available here Ajeng Larasati, Harm Reduction International: Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to our webinar titled …

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Plenary Item 7. Inter-agency cooperation and coordination of efforts in addressing and countering the world drug problem

CHAIR: Introduction to Item 7 UNODC: We have produced a communication package to UN countries to help them see how the UN system can better support implementation of drug policy. This package includes relevant guidelines and considerations. We hope to report even more progress next year. UNODC: (…) drug prevention, treatment and care based on scientific …

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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 …

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Committee of the Whole. Resolution L.3. Strengthening international cooperation in combating the misuse of information and communications technologies for drug trafficking and drug-related money-laundering

Chair: I hand over to Russia to present the text: Russia: Russia introduces this draft resolution during consultation on 11th of March, we hope this adoption will help contribute to the addressing the world drug program. (sic). A number of delegations, including China, Singapore, and Turkey, introduced into the heading the word “illicit”, and “precursors”, …

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