In a context of scarce transparency and accountability on the impacts of drug control, civil society proposes better tools for monitoring and assessment.
Overdose deaths are skyrocketing, especially in North America and Northern Europe. This alarming situation calls for increased funding to harm reduction approaches that empower communities.
In a joint statement, released by the mother’s group and the Legalize Belarus civil movement on 30th May, activists identified a number of key points for meaningful drug policy reform.
Today, we stand together from Amsterdam to Nairobi to Buenos Aires to New York to Bangkok and raise our collective voices that will not be silenced to loudly clamour for an end to repression and punishment as instruments of drug control.
If you know any civil society organisation active in the field of drugs in these countries, please let the VNGOC know as soon as possible, but no later than 16 July 2019.
The issue of the medical use of cannabis is one in which the Board has failed to match the progress it has made in certain other areas, such as the death penalty. Its position on the therapeutic applications of cannabis remains as it was at the close of the UNGASS decade; indeed, if anything, it is now worse.
The INCB has asked the VNGOC for suggestions of suitable civil society organisations to meet during their upcoming mission to Austria in mid June 2019. Apply before 5th June!
The 2019 Ministerial Segment laid bare some of the frictions at the heart of the international consensus on drug policy, also highlighting pending tasks.
