Chair: We will discuss drug policy from the perspective of health, and East African Drug Policy. The African plan of action was developed last year. African communities are supportive of the comprehensive approach to drugs. but how are we going to contextualise them? Kunal Naik: We created the African Plan of action in 2018 in Cairo and finalised …
CND Sessions
Plenary: Item 9- Contributions by the Commission to the work of the Economic and Social Council, in line with General Assembly resolution 72/305, including follow-up to and review and implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Chair: The commission decided to include this standing item on the agenda focusing on Economic and Social Council. The commission has been contributing as appropriate to the council’s work. In the 2019 Ministerial Declaration, member states reiterated the efforts to achieve SDGs were complementary and mutually reinforcing. In September 2019, heads of states gathered in …
Side Event: Finding Common Ground: A Civil Society Conversation About Prevention
Organised by Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs Matej Kosir, Institute Utrip (Slovenia): I am honoured that VNGOCD decided to put prevention as the first topic of this finding common ground event. We have been involved in prevention for more than 20 years; we also classify ourselves as experts in the field. Our role is to …
Plenary: Item 8. Recommendations of the subsidiary bodies of the Commission
Chair: I now invite secretariat from the governing body to make remarks. Secretariat: Work of subsidiary bodies undertaken in 2019. Was a year where we had all 5 meetings. The meeting in Lisbon in July was the first meeting ever that was at the opening and had both the Minister of Justice and Health. Both …
Side event: Voices of the Quchaqbar – Understanding opiate trafficking in Afghanistan from the perspective of drug traffickers
Organized by Afghanistan, and UNODC Programme Development and Management Unit Anja Korenblik, UNODC [Welcoming remarks and introduction of speakers] Michel Osman, UNODC This report is unique as it conducted qualitative research and interviewed traffickers in Afghanistan that had not been charged, or had any criminal justice involvement. We interviewed 41 traffickers — they were all …
Side Event: Accelerating support for increasing access to controlled medicines while preventing diversion and non-medical use
Organized by Australia, Belgium, Canada, El Salvador and the Russian Federation, and European Union, UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, Union for International Cancer Control, Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs and World Health Organization Miwa Kato, UNODC 80% of world defines opioid crises as not having access to opioids. How do we work this out …