The 50-minute side event was sponsored by the Kingdom of Belgium and hosted by the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care. Co-sponsors were Dianova, CAPSA, INCB, Pallium India, Union for International Cancer Control, Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs, and the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance. Professor Dr Dr Charlotte Colman, Professor Drug Policy and Criminology Ghent University, and National Drug Coordinator – President of the General Drug Policy Cell Belgium welcomed participants to the event, citing Belgium’s record of support for the issue of improving availabilit ..read more

Side event organised by the International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific with the support of Canada, Germany, Mexico, Norway, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Association for Women’s Rights in Development, CREA, the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, the Forging Intersectional Feminist Futures Consortium, the Instituto RIA, the International Drug Policy Consortium, the Women and Harm Reduction International Network and Suar Perempuan Lingkar Napza Nusantara Gloria Lai, Regional Director: Asia, International Drug Policy Consortium (Moderator ..read more

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. INDEX Plenary Committee of the Whole Side Events Informal Dialogues Plenary Opening of the 67th Session of the CND Item 1. Election of officers Item 2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters Item 3. High-level segment Thursday, 14 March 9:30 – 13:00 (Morning session) / UN Web TV recording 15:00 – 18:00 (Afternoon session) / UN Web TV recording Roundtable: 15:00 – 18:00 Roundtable:Taking stock: work undertaken since 2019 ..read more

Charity Monareng (SSDP): Drug policy has a disproportionate impact on certain populations. We see disparities in incarceration rates and socioeconomic consequences. These voices historically excluded from drug policy debates. This side-event has been organized in collaboration with OHCHR, IDPC, and part of 7 CND side events organized by OHCHR building on the latest report on human rights and drug policies.  Dasha Ocheret (UNAIDS): Thank you to OHCHR, SSDP and other partners for organising this discussion. For many years drug policy decisions have come at the expense of the rights and heal ..read more

Marcela Jofre (HRI): The war on drugs has a disproportionate impact on women. The needs of women who use drugs are gravely under-addressed and they face higher barriers than men with a lack of tailored harm reduction services. Barriers include the intersecting forms of discrimination they face based on gender, race, class, stigmatisation, experiences of gender-based violence and access to sexual and reproductive rights. Women have less prevalence of drug use than men, but are greatly impacted by punitive drug policies. Men are 5x more likely than women to inject drugs, but women who inject dru ..read more

Item 12: Adoption of the report of the Commission on its sixty-seventh session CoW Chair: we have concluded the consideration of proposals in the CoW. I am very happy to report that L3 and L4 have found consensus in the CoW. CoW has not found consensus on all paragraphs without L2 and L5.  Chair: Do not continue negotiating texts in the Plenary by opening up text. Let me remind you of the cosponsoring procedure. Member states can do so in e-proposals on e-delegates. Until close of business on Monday, 25th March 2024 at the latest. And also by raising their country plates during the adopti ..read more

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. This event is an opportunity to discuss it as a policy, as an intervention, as an approach, and we have multiple aims today with this – reflect on how this term became controversial, and how it became redefined as a health policy and how its implementation has evolved ..read more

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 Open Society Foundations, Penal Reform International and Students for Sensible Drug Policy Helene, Human Rights Committee. This event is organised by POS Foundation. We will focus on a specific aspect of the OHCHR rep ..read more

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 few days. We have L2 of Thailand and L5 of the United States. I will start with L2 of Thailand. Before I start with specifics I want Thailand to brief us on the latest developments.  Thailand: We had another 5 hour ..read more

(Event in Spanish) Pablo Cymermarn, Intercambios A.C.:  Llevamos organizando este evento hace  muchos años. Desde que los eventos satélites han sido promovidos en la CND. Este evento está también apoyado por FIOCRUZ, INNPD, PBPD, REDUC, ACEID, IDPC, HRI, International Indigenous Drug Policy Alliance. Victoria Darraidu, CELS: Sobre el escenario argentino, es relevante mencionar la persistencia de un enfoque estatal sobre el tema de las drogas que afecta los derechos humanos y demuestra incapacidad para responder a la criminalidad, la violencia y el consumo. Luego, destacar la emergenc ..read more