No Borders Humanity Organization (NBH): How is the INCB addressing challenges in ensuring equitable access to controlled substances for medical purposes while preventing diversion and misuse? Southeast Asia Harm Reduction Association (AHRA): Considering the proliferation of heroin and ATS substances, increasing drug use and dependency, and concerns about unintended consequences of drug policies in Southeast …
Side event: Drug policy and human rights: Perspectives from Latin America
Organized by the Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil Conselho Federal with the support of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad, the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy, the International Drug Policy Consortium, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and Rede Brasileira de Redução de Danos e Direitos Humanos Francisco …
Side event: The death penalty for drug-related offences: Challenges to restrict its use and pathways towards abolition
Side event organised by Harm Reduction International with the support of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Czechia, Mongolia, Mexico, New Zealand, Paraguay, Portugal, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the European Union, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the United Nations Development Programme, …
Side event: Empowering voices: Civil society’s role in monitoring and evaluation of drug policy
Organised by the Fédération bruxelloise des institutions pour toxicomanes with the support of Belgium, Finland, the Asociación Bienestar y Desarrollo, the De Regenboog Groep, Harm Reduction International and Forum Droghe Click here for event recording Stephane Leclercq, FEDA BXL. Thank you for joining us and for the organisers, Finland and Belgium for co-sponsoring the event. …
Item 6. Follow-up to the implementation at the national, regional and international levels of all commitments, as reflected in the Ministerial Declaration of 2019, to address and counter the world drug problem.
(…) UNODC: Thank you, Mr. Chair, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen. It is my pleasure to brief the Commission on some of the significant efforts UNODC has undertaken over the last year to confront the global drug problem, in line with the Ministerial Declaration of 2019. Given time constraints, I will highlight just a few …
Side Event: Drug checking as a harm reduction strategy to address the fentanyl epidemic
Organized by Corporación Acción Técnica Social with the support of Colombia, Mexico, the Alliance for Collaborative Drug Checking, the Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad, the Instituto RIA, the International Drug Policy Consortium 19th March 2024 -14:10 Chair – Zara Snapp, Instituto RIA: Today, we’ll be discussing the role of drug checking in …