VNGOC Deputy Secretary Penny Hill: Welcome to the VNGOC’s Informal Dialogue with the INCB President. I’m Penny Hill, Deputy Secretary of the Board of the Vienna NGO Committee. I’d like to welcome you all to this Informal Dialogue with the INCB President today. Mr. Cornelis Pieter De Joncheer is joining us today as the INCB …
Civil Society Participation
Side event: Impacts of COVID-19 on the drug market: a multi-country multi-analysis study
Organized by the Alcohol and Drug Foundation with the support of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy and Release Dr Monica Barratt – Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT, Australia: I’ll be speaking about global drug market shifts during the pandemic from the global drugs survey. I would like to acknowledge a …
Informal Dialogue: WHO representatives
(Please note that, unfortunately, the first half of this informal dialogue was not recorded. If you have a copy that we could use to produce transcriptions, please do not hesitate to get in touch). Ricardo Pareyda, Veterans Action Council: How can cannabis and cannabinoid medicines benefit from the numerous WHO programs on patient safety & pharmacovigilance, …
Side event: Raising voices: Empowering female farmers in drug crop cultivation areas
Organized by the Open Society Foundations with the support of Germany Sarah David Advisor, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany: My name is Sarah David, I’m an advisor working with GIZ, and I’m more than happy to welcome you to today’s …
Side event: Strengthening the Prevention and Treatment of Cannabis Problematic Use
Organized by Dianova International with the support of the European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies (ENCOD), the European Federation of Therapeutic Communities and Rotary International Lucía Goberna – Dianova International: Dianova is a network of 25 organisations working in 19 countries. We mainly work in the fields of prevention and treatment of drug …
Side event – Civil Society and COVID-19 – responses during the pandemic
Organized by the UNODC Civil Society Unit with the support of Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs Moderator: Jamie Bridge, Vienna NGO Commitee on Drugs Jean-Luc Lemahieu, Director, Division for Treaty Affairs, UNODC [Welcoming remarks]: The event will showcase activities of NGOs upholding services in difficult times. We hope pandemic will be behind us soon, but …