The World Drug Report (WDR) 2026 Chair: Opening Remarks UNODC — Anja Busse, Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, UNODC: …and, in particular, the Annual Report Questionnaire focal points for their invaluable contributions on this. This year, we also conducted fieldwork—not for the first time, but still quite unusually— to complement the analysis presented in the …
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Plenary Session – Friday afternoon
12: Adoption of the report of the Commission on its sixty-ninth session Chair: The commission decided to reduce the length of the annual report bearing in mind the need for it to include resolutions and decisions adopted by the commission focusing on policy findings and conclusion. The report on item 10 and 11 discussed this …
Informal NGO Dialogue with the Acting UNODC Executive Director
Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (VNGOC): Good morning, everybody. Thank you for joining this informal dialogue with the Acting Executive Director of UNODC, John Brandolino, and thank you for accepting our invitation. This has become a long-standing tradition to exchange views and perspectives with civil society organisations here in Vienna, and we really appreciate this …
Plenary – Monday morning session
Item 1. Election of Officers Chair: Chair: It’s a great honour to welcome you to the 69th session of the CND and for me to chair the CND. It’s the first time that Armenia holds the chair over CND and I would like to thank you for the support and trust. No country can tackle the …
Side event: Principles on drug treatment as alternatives to conviction or punishment
Candice Welsh, UNODC. Drug use conditions are health issues. Scientific evidence based treatment improves health outcomes and benefits communities in multiple ways. Alternatives to incarceration are in line to international drug conventions and improve health, wellbeing and public safety. In 2015, UNODC launched its first handbook on the subject. This is where the implementation principles …
CND Thematic Discussions on the Implementation of All International Drug Policy Commitments, following-up to the 2019 Ministerial Declaration – 1 October 2025 – Morning Session
CND Thematic Discussions on Strengthening Public Health Responses to Drug Use Session 3: High Rates of Transmission of HIV, Hepatitis C Virus and Other Blood-Borne Diseases Associated with Drug Use Evidence Snapshot for the topics of the day – Ms. Chloe Carpentier, Chief, Research and Knowledge Production Section, UNODC: Drug-related infectious diseases – we estimate …