Revised draft resolution submitted by the Chair - Special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem to be held in 2016
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs,
Recalling General Assembly resolution 67/193 of 20 December 2012, in which the Assembly decided to convene, in early 2016, a special session on the world drug problem,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 70/181 of 17 December 2015, in which the Assembly requested the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to produce a short, substantive, concise and action-oriented document to be recommended for adoption at the plenary of the special session,
Decides to transmit the outcome document, entitled “Our joint commitment to effectively addressing and countering the world drug problem”, which is annexed to the present resolution, to the General Assembly and to recommend its adoption at the plenary of the special session on the world drug problem to be held from 19 to 21 April 2016.
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- Young people
- Transnational & organised crime
- Supply reduction
- New psychoactive substances
- Policing
- Human rights
- Human rights and social justice
- Health & harm reduction
- HIV/AIDS
- Hepatitis
- Gender
- Drug prevention
- Drug dependence treatment
- Development (SDGs +)
- Demand reduction
- Criminal justice
- Access to controlled medicines
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