Emma Disley, RAND Following on from the UNGASS Outcome Document’s call for alternatives to incarceration, RAND conducted research to see what legal alternatives exist across the 28 EU member states, how they are being used in practice, and the existing evidence supporting them. They considered alternatives at all stages of the criminal justice process – …
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
CND Plenary: Item 5 Implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem (Wednesday)
Youth Forum – Students from Montenegro & Qatar: Students from over 30 countries have come together to express concerns over drug issues, and to try to propose a way forward in what seems like a an impossible goal. Collective ideas from fresh eyes can bring progress. A broad approach is the best way to deal …
Side event: HIV response among people who use drugs: The role of police
Panel: Volodomy Tymoshenko (Ukraine), Ivan Dobryshin (Kazakhstan, Ministry of Internal Affairs), Fariba Soltani (UNODC), Aldo Lale-Demoz (Portugal), Tofik Murshudulu (UNODC), Tatyana Fedorovych (Belarus) Aldo Lale-Demoz. Deep concern about evidence based, meeting SDG with regards HIV, current rends it’s going to be very difficult to meet target, commitment in UNGASS 2016, HIV infections among people who …
CND Plenary: Item 5 Implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem (Tuesday, March 14, 2017 – Afternoon)
Item 5. Implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem: (a) Demand reduction and related measures; (b) Supply reduction and related measures; (c) Countering money-laundering and promoting judicial cooperation to enhance international cooperation. Director of Operations: Health is the utmost …
Side event: Health responses to New Psychoactive Substances
Organised by the Governments of the United Kingdom and New Zealand, and the UNODC Laboratory and Scientific Section. Opening Remarks from HE Leigh Turner – UK Permanent Representative to the UN Vienna Thank you and welcome. There is growing evidence of the impact of these substances. The UK has been working with its partners to …
Side event: New Initiatives in prevention: Strengthening the global prevention response
UNODC: If we address prevention properly we have gotten rid of the problem. Need to look to research for what is working and what is not working. At core is individual. I was impressed to read research that said that a key factor for prevention across the world was the children sit down once a day …