Organised by the Open Society Foundations Matthew Wilson, OSF (Moderator): Thank you so much for joining this OSF-sponsored side event at the 65th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs. I am very privileged to welcome this outstanding panel: the former President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Juan Manuel Santos; Nurul Izzah Anwar, …
Side Event: Open Wound: Extrajudicial Drug War Killings in 2022
Organized by the DRCNet Foundation with the support of the Asian Human Rights Commission, the Associazione Luca Coscioni and the Forum Droghe Opening remarks Marco Perduca (Associazone Luca Coscioni & former Senator, Italy): This is a panel that follows up similar events that the DRCNet has been organizing for the last six years to try and …
Reaching Global AIDS Targets Through Harm Reduction and Reform of Restrictive Drug Policy Frameworks
Co-sponsored by the Mission and the Kingdom of Thailand, the Mission of the Republic of Kenya, the World Health Organization, the International Network of People Who Use Drugs, the International Drug Policy Consortium and Harm Reduction International. Moderator: Matthew Kavanagh, Special Adviser to the Executive Director for Policy, Advocacy and Knowledge at UNAIDS: Distinguished representatives and …
Side event: Mitigating the risks of corporate capture
Steve Rolles, Transform Drug Policy Foundation. The webinar will be recorded. I join with our fellow speakers in condemning the Russian invasion in Ukraine and stand in solidarity with our Ukrainian colleagues and friends. The key aims of cannabis policy should be to protect health and promote social justice and equity and reduce crime. Performance should …
Women, Motherhood and Substance Use: emerging research and on the ground evidence
Zara Snapp, Instituto RIA: Good morning. We know it’s early for many of us and afternoon for others. Welcome to the side event on mother women, motherhood and substance use. We´re very pleased to have an excellent panel here, and this will be available on social media after. This, since we know that many people would be …
Committee of the Whole L7. Intensifying efforts to address the proliferation of uncontrolled and designer precursors used in the illicit manufacture of drugs
Secretariat: There will be an informal on L5 in a hybrid format on BR-A. L7 – Technical amendment. On OP12 & 13 – There is in square brackets ‘or trafficking’. There was an omission to delete this part. Just checking with the CoW. Ok, we can continue. United States: We engaged in consultations, not in …