Organized by Youth Organisations for Drug Action and the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe. Ayesha Mian, Communications Officer,Youth Organisations for Drug Action (YODA): We, as young people, feel consistently failed by the drug policies that are meant to protect us. Even policymakers themselves admit that is difficult for legislation to keep up with …
Civil Society Participation
CND Plenary: Item 3 Policy directives to the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and strengthening the drug programme and the role of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs as its governing body, including administrative, budgetary and strategic management questions
Item 3. Policy directives to the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and strengthening the drug programme and the role of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs as its governing body, including administrative, budgetary and strategic management questions: (a) Work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and policy …
Side event: Stimulant drug use in Latin America and Asia
Ernesto Cortes, ACEID, Costa Rica. Smokable cocaine in Latin America has been happening for the past 20 years but we still don’t know how to design interventions that help users. They are also highly stigmatised. There is a difference between smokable cocaine differs from the route countries of ‘crack cocaine’. Pasta base can be found in …
Side event: Supply side harm reduction
Fany Pineda, ReverdeSer. I want to start by thanking the organizers of this side-event and all the people who have assisted. At ReverdeSer Colectivo, the organization I work with, we are happy to have an opportunity to speak of such an interesting subject such as “supply side harm reduction”, which is the main focus of our …
Side event: Towards a new international drug strategy: Implementing the recommendations of UNGASS 2016
Miguel Ruiz Camanas, Vice-Minister of Multilateral Affairs. The purpose of this panel is to discuss how we can reshape international drug control and implement the implementations of the UNGASS. In Mexico, we believe that international drug policy has not been straight forward. Since the adoption of the Single Convention in 1961, the evolving reality of the …
Side event: Rethinking drug policy from a peace building perspective
Organised by International Alert Kim Toogood. Peace building can contribute to the issue of drug policy in particular contexts. We will focus here on Afghanistan and Nigeria. In many cases, we talk about violence linked to trafficking or crime. Here, we’ll discuss structural or cultural violence. If one’s livelihood is criminalised, then the people themselves are …