Secretariat of the Governing Bodies: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Commission decided to organize an extraordinary session 20-24 September 2022 with. In total, 660 participants from 99 countries and 40 observers from 11 organizations participated in the extra ordinary online sessions. The UNODC executive director made an opening statement at those sessions. Each of the …
CND Sessions
Side event: Promoting evidence-based interventions of civil society in collaboration with member states and international organizations
Organized by the Association Proyecto Hombre with the support of Spain, Uruguay, and Dianova International, the Global Research Institute Foundation, the Red Iberoamericana ONGs que trabajan en Drogas y Adicciones, the UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section and the Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wwuwRhbcKk&w=560&h=315]
Side event: The shortcomings and side effects of substance scheduling
Organised by the HIV Legal Network with the support of Canada, the Netherlands, the Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation, the International Drug Policy Consortium, the Transform Drug Policy Foundation and the Transnational Institute [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpTrauKAi98&w=560&h=315] Steve Rolles, Transform Drug Policy Foundation. It goes without saying that we are expressing our solidarity with Ukraine. Our event …
Committee of the Whole. L.7. Intensifying efforts to address the proliferation of uncontrolled and designer precursors used in the illicit manufacture of drugs
Chair: Okay, how far along are we? USA: We recommend starting on the title, we have plenty of suggestions and as this is one of the biggest outstanding issues, I hope we can make substantial progress. USA: (…) EU: We wanted to announce that we intend to co-sponsor this resolution. China: We can not go …
Plenary Item 7. Inter-agency cooperation and coordination of efforts in addressing and countering the world drug problem
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, United Nations Human Rights Council: It is my honor to address the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs to present the study on arbitrary detention relating to drug policies prepared by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at the request of the Human Rights Council and presented to the …
Committee of the Whole L.4. Strengthening international cooperation to comprehensively address the links between illicit drug trafficking and illicit firearms trafficking
Mexico: Last Monday, I mentioned we had advanced a lot in the understandings. Thanks to the contributions and engagement of delegations, we made good substantive progress over the last two days. There are a number of paragraphs which have already been agreed in informals. Should proceed with those paragraphs then will have time to move …