Chair: (Introduces Item 9 and alludes to official documentation) Secretariat: Contributions of the CND to ECOSOC. New coordination segment was held in February 2023. A video highlighted the work of the CND and ECOSOC subsidiary bodies in general. The CND has been invited to contribute to HLPF on SDGs in July 2023 under the theme …
CND Sessions
Side event (in Spanish): Relevancia de la inclusión de la perspectiva de género en las políticas de drogas. Indicadores para el monitoreo
Organizado por Argentina con el apoyo de Brasil, Colombia, México e Intercambios Asociación Civil, y COPOLAD. Pablo Cymerman, Intercambios. Las inequidades de géneros atraviesan los temas relacionados con políticas de drogas. Esta sesión pretende mostrar que están haciendo los países latinoamericanos en esta materia en sus políticas de prevención, atención e investigación. Antes de presentar …
Side event: Innovative responses to promoting access to controlled medicines while preventing diversion and non-medical use: following up on the global “Access and Availability campaign by the chair of the 65th Commission on Narcotic Drugs”
Ambassador Vermuelen (Belgium): introduced the topic and the history of Belgium’s involvement including last year’s initiative, which was at the heart of Belgium’s Presidency of CND. Speakers: Dilkushi Poovendran (WHO), Ghislain D’Hoop, Carolyn Patterson (Assistant Secy Govt of Australia, Health and Aged Care) Jagit Pavadia, President, INCB: Thank you to the govt of Belgium and …
Side Event: Aligning Drug Policy with Environmental Protection
Organized by the Transnational Institute with the support of Brazil, Colombia, the Global Drug Policy Observatory, Health Poverty Action, the International Drug Policy Consortium, the Open Society Foundation, Viso Mutop and the Washington Office on Latin America Clemmie James, Health Poverty Action: Today, we will explore how punitive drug policies have accelerated environmental degradation …
Plenary Item 8. Recommendations of the subsidiary bodies of the Commission
Thursday March 16th 15:00 Chair: After 2 years of being held special extraordinary sessions online, the meetings of the subsidiary bodies were again held in person. At these meeting participants discussed the current situation with regard to regional and subregional cooperation on the WDP discussing the commitments of 2019 and preparations for 2024. As well …
Plenary Item 7. Inter-agency cooperation and coordination of efforts in addressing and countering the world drug problem
March 16, Thursday 12:00pm Chair: (Introduction of agenda item 7.) UNODC: (…) The UN Common Position is an attempt by the whole UN system to have a united position on this multifaceted issue, informed by strong research, and deep discussions. This relies on inter-agency collaboration and 8 key principles. I pick the most important to …