Dr Deus Mubangizi, Director, Health Products Policy and Standards Department, World Health Organization. It will be important to understand the process we went through. For critical reviews, if we need more expertise, we issue a call. In this case, because of the nature of the request, we issued an open call for experts. A number …
Side Events
Side event: Principles on drug treatment as alternatives to conviction or punishment
Candice Welsh, UNODC. Drug use conditions are health issues. Scientific evidence based treatment improves health outcomes and benefits communities in multiple ways. Alternatives to incarceration are in line to international drug conventions and improve health, wellbeing and public safety. In 2015, UNODC launched its first handbook on the subject. This is where the implementation principles …
Side event: Reintegration of persons released from detention or subjected to non-custodial measures
Mr. Simon Walker, OHCHR. Good morning! I am Simon Walker, Chief of the Rule of Law and Democracy Section of the Office of the United High Commissioner for Human Rights. OHCHR is pleased to organise this special event in collaboration with Costa Rica, Colombia, South Africa and Switzerland, the Global Campus of Human Rights, the Penal …
Side event – Protecting civil society space in drug policy making: The European experience
Organised by the Eurasian Harm Reduction Association, alongside the EU Civil Society Forum on Drugs, Czechia, Ireland, Poland, Spain, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Union, the European Union Drugs Agency and the Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs With the rise of authoritarian regimes and far-right governments, the adoption …
Side event – Addressing gender inequalities and compounding vulnerabilities in drug policy
Organized by Frontline AIDS LTD. with the support of Portugal, Switzerland, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), the Skoun Lebanese Addictions Centre, the Middle East and North Africa Harm Reduction Association, the International Drug Policy Consortium, …
Side event – Addressing gender inequalities & compounding vulnerabilities in drug policy
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