19 October 2011

Geneva, Switzerland

Various leaders of the federal government, academics and representatives of international networks will debate the “war on drugs” in order to provide a global overview of the question.

4 September 2012 18:00-19:00

London, United Kingdom

There remains substantial agreement among the international community on many aspects of the contemporary UN drug control regime. However, diverging views on the non-medical and non-scientific use of a range of controlled substances make drug policy an increasingly contested and transitionary field of multinational cooperation.

15 April 2013

Washington, DC.

Governance Studies at Brookings and WOLA will host a public forum with two leading scholars and two key politicians to examine the legal and political choices in USA after Colorado and Washington marijuana regulation.

13 June 2013

Vilnius, Lithuania

IDPC and EHRN will deliver a one-day ‘sample’ training event at the 2013 International Harm Reduction Conference in Vilnius, where they will also launch a Drug Policy Training Toolkit. Apply now!

10 - 11 October 2013

Bielefeld, Germany

This congress will discuss current drug policies and will focus on the health and social consequences of the drug use.

26 June 2013 11:00-13:00

New York, USA

This event will highlight the potential of the existing legal regime which combines drug-demand and drug-supply reduction measures.

13 - 21 March 2014

Vienna, Austria

During the session, the CND will review progress made in achieving the objectives set out in the 2009 Political Declaration and Action Plan.

25 October 2013 17:30-19:30

Denver, United States

This workshop will help prepare reform organisations for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs to be held in New York in 2016.

15 - 17 January 2014

Vienna, Austria

Before an audience of experts, academics, and students, the Vienna-based UN agencies will present the changes of their policies and priorities in response to new understandings of issues they deal with, as well as the external environment.

13:00 22 January - 16:30 14 January 2014

Ladbroke Grove, UK

This meeting will focus on the chances of the 2016 UN General Assembly on Drugs delivering increased rights and services for people who use drugs, and what the UK government will be doing to secure this outcome.

19 February 2014 16:30-19:00

Swansea, UK

Discussions will focus on the challenges to policies and programmes within production, transit and consumer markets, including those in places as distant as Afghanistan and those closer to home.

7 May 2014

London, United Kingdom

This event will present a report which provides an independent economic analysis of the current international drug control system.

16 June 2014 13:00-15:00

Geneva, Switzerland

The governments of Switzerland, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico and the Global Commission on Drug Policy will join in for an event on the impact of the world drug problem on human rights during the 26th session of the Human Rights Council.

17 November 2014 15:00

New York City, United States of America

On 17 November 2014, the United Nations University will host “a roundtable discussion to help all stakeholders prepare for UNGASS 2016.

17 November 2014 10:00-13:00

Geneva, Switzerland

Increasing voices are urging political leaders and citizens to rethink the approach to illicit drugs and to rebalance the international response to drug use.

18 November 2014 13:00

Essex, UK

This lecture will explore how methods for applying international human rights law can serve as a tool to scrutinise drug control issues.

26 November 2014

Brussels, Belgium

With a greater number of casualties than the Afghanistan and Iraq campaigns combined, and very meager results, the US is starting to reconsider the "War on Drugs", waged since the 1970s.

6 February 2015 15:00-16:30

This event will provide a discussion of US approaches to drug policy at home and abroad with two senior Obama administration officials.

19 - 21 April 2016

New York, USA

The UNGASS on drugs is aimed at providing an objective and open assessment of international drug control.

6 - 7 July 2015

Colchester, Essex

This course will provide students with the core legal foundations of human rights and drug control, present tools to undertake research and will introduce the political landscape of policy reform in the lead up to the UNGASS and beyond.