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31 March 2009

IDPC Advocacy Note - The Political Declaration - A missed Opportunity

The Political Declaration adopted on the 12th March 2009 at the High Level Segment of the 52nd Session of the CND is a framework and a set of priorities for the next 10 years of international drug policy. IDPC and its members have followed with interest the process for reviewing progress against the objectives set at the General Assembly Special Session on Drugs in 1998 - namely, to eradicate or significantly reduce the production of, and demand for, the non-medical use of controlled drugs.
31 March 2009

IDPC Advocacy Note - Civil Society Engagement - UN High Level Segment 2009

Civil society engagement in during the lead up to the UN High Level Segment has been for the first time a properly structured programmed of NGO involvement put in place by the 'Beyond 2008' initiative. Nine regional seminars were held through the first half of 2008, and 300 delegates drawn from these events gathered in Vienna in July 2008 to put together a NGO consensus declaration for presentation to the CND.
3 March 2009

UNGASS News, Issue 7

The seventh of the IDPC's regular "UNGASS News" updates, keeping the network up to speed with developments in the UN drug policy review process is now available, and includes an update on the practical arrangements now in place for the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the High Level Segment, opportunities for civil society involvement, and a report on the latest round of negotiating meetings preparing the political declaration and annex.
3 March 2009

IDPC Satellite Programme: 52nd CND Meeting 2009

A programme of satellite events to be held by IDPC and its partners to supplement the fifty-second Commission on Narcotic Drugs and its high-level segment is to follow shortly...
2 March 2009

Global Fund Letter to CND Chairperson

The Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Michel_Kazatchkine, urged the president of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to send a strong message to the world with clear and specific language that calls for comprehensive harm reduction services.
1 March 2009

TNI / WOLA briefing paper - Pardon for mules in Ecuador

At the end of 2008, about 1,500 persons were released who were in Ecuadorian prisons sentenced for drug trafficking. The measure, known as "pardon for mules,” singled out a specific group of prisoners who were victims of indiscriminate and disproportionate legislation that was in effect for many years.
1 March 2009

First Global Forum of Producers of Crops Declared to be Illicit

Approximately 50 producers of coca leaves, cannabis and opium poppy from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia and more than 20 experts and NGO representatives gathered at this first world forum in Barcelona, Spain from January 29 to 31, 2009 in Barcelona, Spain.
1 March 2009

UNAIDS letter to CND chairperson

Michel Sidibe, the newly appointed Executive Director of UNAIDS has written to Selma Ashipala-Musavyi, the Chairperson of CND to convey his hope "that the Commission will further advance UN system-wide coherence in relation to the body of evidence in support of harm reduction measures in tackling drug use.
1 March 2009

IHRA launches harm reduction advocacy tools

In the build-up to the High Level Segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna in March 2009, IHRA has launched two advocacy tools to inform government delegations and civil society about the global appeal of - and support for - the harm reduction approach. Please click here for further information.