Below, the CND Blog offers an Index of the 100+ hours of real-time non-literal blogging material captured during the 67th UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs. Please note the timings are mostly based on the official Programme, and may not perfectly coincide with the timings of the actual proceedings. INDEX Plenary Committee of the Whole Side …
Plenary Item 12. Adoption of the report of the Commission on its sixty-seventh session
Item 12: Adoption of the report of the Commission on its sixty-seventh session CND Chair (Ghana): Excellencies, distinguished representatives, ladies and gentlemen. Good afternoon. We shall now turn our attention to item 12, adoption of the report of the Commission on its 67th session. We will proceed with the adoption of the draft resolutions. Before doing …
Side event: The incorporation of social justice into harm reduction, an essential step
Constanza Sanchez, ICEERS: It is my honor to moderate this side event. To start with a few reflections on this week, it seems we are navigating theory and practice – CND is a wonderful opportunity to share experiences from different geographies, experiences and approaches. Today, harm reductions been a very hot topic in the CoW. …
Side event: Licit uses of the coca leaf
Organised by the Open Society Institute with the support of Colombia, the Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad and Elementa DDHH Diego Garcia, Open Society Foundations. I am lucky to be here today with a number of experts on the coca leaf issue. Here we want to imagine a future with coca. Andrés …
Side event: Ending overreliance on punishment: Decriminalisation and prison decongestion as key goals of drug policy reform
Organized by the POS Foundation with the support of Czechia, Ghana, Paraguay, Switzerland, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad, the International Drug Policy Consortium, the …
Committee of the Whole (Friday morning)
L2 – Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Alternative Development: effective implementation and the way forward (Dominican Republic, Germany, Peru, Philippines and Thailand) Chair: Good Morning! Chair: We have two resolutions still to be agreed this morning. I hope we can see good flexibility this morning as in the last …