Organized by Brazil with the support of the UNODC Country Office Brazil Federal Police Commissioner, Elvis Secco: In the years 2019 and 2020 the federal policy adopted some guidelines to fight drug trafficking. Brazil is a continental country with more that 16.000 kilometres of boarders with the biggest producers of drugs in the world; Peru, …
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Side Event: Next steps for data collection on drugs: Experiences from UN agencies
Organized by Mexico and Switzerland, and Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales, European Union, Global Drug Policy Observatory (Swansea University, United Kingdom), International Drug Policy Consortium, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Development Programme and World Health Organization The revised version of the Annual Report Questionnaire is set to be proposed, …
Side event: From abstract principles to concrete guidance: International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Policy
Organized by the Governments of Canada, Germany, Mexico and Switzerland, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization. The International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Policy can be accessed online here. H.E. Ambassador Claude Wild, Switzerland: Celebration of a milestone. Today we launch the International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Policy. Fruitful collaboration between International …
CND Intersessional Meeting, 7 November 2018: Implementation of the international drug control treaties, international cooperation, synthetic opioids and inter-agency cooperation
Chair: In memory of Ambassador Christine Stix-Hackl – 1 minute of silence. Thank you. Let’s turn to our agenda points. Proposed dates for the roundtables have been circulated and tomorrow at 9 am we start with informal consultations for fine-tuning. Regarding the draft outline, it was sent out last night so now you can review …
Plenary Session: Item 6. Implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem (Afternoon session)
United States: On the supply side, global production of cocaine, opium poppy and synthetic drugs continue to increase, requires strategic and targeted domestic control measures. In addition to paying attention to these founding documents, we must pay attention to new realities, including grave threat posed by use of synthetic drugs, where our public health emergency …
Side event – Bringing human rights into the heart of drug control: Death penalty for drug offences from UNGASS to 2019
Organized by Harm Reduction International. Dr Rick Lines – HRI and co-chair Since HRI founded our DP for drug project in 2007 we’ve seen the issue take on more significance in fora like CND and the UNGASS, but also with NGOs working on drug policy and human rights. It has been an important entry point …