Organized by Sweden with the support of Denmark, Finland and Norway, and the UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section and the World Health Organization Opening remarks • H.E. Ambassador Kjersti E. Andersen, Permanent Representative of Norway to the UN in Vienna: We are, in many ways, siblings – sharing more political similarities. There are some …
UNODC
Side event: COVID and the Mekong: how the drug situation has changed and what it means for the future
UNODC (moderator, Lilli Sang, Regional Office for Southeast Asia): In the past few years, we have witnessed the continual expansion of drug markets, including manufacturing and trafficking, in the Mekong region to be shipped out to profitable markets in the region. Today’s side event will bring some opportunities to reflect on the reasons behind this. …
Plenary – Item 3. General debate
Costa Rica on behalf of the group of the 77 and China: We appreciate the preparatory work going into this event and maneuvering the pandemic. Common and shared responsibility that should be taken under in international cooperation based on scientific evidence to safeguard all humanity. Multilateralism and effective collaboration is essential, just as international law. …
Side Event: Bridging the Gaps between Crime and Development Perspectives in Drug Policy: The Drugs & Development Hub
[…] UNODC AD (stand-in): WDP and Sustainable Development: a complex relationship – responses impact each other. We cannot look at these areas out of context. Drug use undermines goal 5 (gender equality) – women take more pharmaceutical medications and men are more into drugs like cocaine and heroin. Clear lack of services for women. Women …
Committee of the Whole (Thursday afternoon) L2. Intensifying efforts to combat the world drug problem through effective partnerships with the private sector
-L2- Chair: I hear OP1 was agreed at the informals. I see there are no more comments, so agreed CoW. OP2 also agreed CoW. OP3bis already agreed at informals. No more comments, therefore agreed CoW. OP11 also agreed at informals. No more comments, therefore agreed CoW. OP13 agreed at informals, therefore agreed CoW. PP6bis also …
Side event: Voices of the Quchaqbar – Understanding opiate trafficking in Afghanistan from the perspective of drug traffickers
Organized by Afghanistan, and UNODC Programme Development and Management Unit Anja Korenblik, UNODC [Welcoming remarks and introduction of speakers] Michel Osman, UNODC This report is unique as it conducted qualitative research and interviewed traffickers in Afghanistan that had not been charged, or had any criminal justice involvement. We interviewed 41 traffickers — they were all …