Michel Perron, Chair of Vienna NGO Committee. We have convened this meeting to discuss how best to address drug abuse together through a health based approach, as part of the framework of the international drug control conventions. We need to discuss scope of practice and what the current framework allows. Look at what should we …
Thank you Mr. Chairman for giving me the floor. I am taking the floor on behalf of the VNGOC to provide our views on how NGOs and civil society can contribute to the reflection of the Commission and its members on the implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action adopted in 2009. To …
How can NGOs most effectively contribute to the high-level review of the Political Declaration and its Plan of Action at the 57th Session of the CND? Kirsti Pojankukka, Finland We are not yet started on negotiating wording of political declaration and that will affect how the review will take place. What do we think we …
Chairperson: Ambassador Gyorgyi Martin Zanathy, Head of delegation of the EU to the international organizations in Vienna. She made introductions and opened the session. There event was addressed by four special guest speakers: Mr. Alex White T.D, Minister of state for primary care, Ireland; Mr. Yuri Fedotov, Executive Director UNODC; Ms. Paola Tardioli- Schiavo, European …
Panel 2. When is it ‘appropriate’ for affected populations and civil society entities to play a participatory role in the formulation and implementation of drug policy? The objective of this session was to define the “were appropriate” from the Political Declaration. Sandeep Chawla, UNODC This question is part of the bureaucracy of the process. In …
Panel 1. How NGOs are contributing to the Political Declaration and Plan of Action Introduction: Michel Perron We asked members to share about 2 things they do to implement that plan of action, to demonstrate how valuable they are as ‘assets’ which is even more important in age of economic austerity where government is more …