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WHAT IS THE GLOBAL PROCESS OF DRUG POLICY MAKING
AND WHAT ARE THE OBJECTIVES OF 2016 UNGASS ON DRUGS?
Vilnius 1-2 February 2016
International Framework
• the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs,
1961, amended by the 1972 Protocol (1961
Convention);
• the Convention on Psychotropic Substances,
1971, added psychotropic substances to the
list of drugs limited to medical and scientific
purposes (1971 Convention) ; and
• the United Nations Convention against Illicit
Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances, 1988, established a more detailed
system of control against the trafficking of
illicit drugs (1988 Convention) .
Objective
“ Parties to the Convention are….. concerned
with the health and welfare of mankind”
• Ensure availability of controlled substances for
medical purpose
• Protect the health of the population
The international conventions
support/allow for
– Harm reduction
– Depenalisation of use of drugs or possession for
personal use
– Alternatives to incarceration for drug related
offences in all sectors
– Treatment and care but not punishment for people
who use drugs
The international conventions DO NOT SUPPORT
compulsory treatment
Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND)
• Policymaking body of the UN
• functional commission of the United
Nations Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC)
• Specific resolutions are adopted by
GA
• Provides guidance to member states
and to UNODC
• Meets in Vienna
• 53 member states/regional groups
UNGASS 2009 Polit. Decl.
Integrated & Balanced
Approach to counter the
World Drug Problem
TIMELINE
2009
UNGASS on
DRUG 2016
UNGASS 1998 Polit. Decl.
Crops Eradication &
alternative Development
1961 Single Convention on
Drugs - Revised 1972
UNGASS
DRUGS
2019
1998
1961
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
2016
Today
1982
AIDS
Sustainable
Development
Goals
2000 Millennium
Development Goals
(MDG6)
2001 UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS
2019
2016 HLM
on HIV and
AIDS
2011 HLM on AIDS
Political Declaration
on HIV/AIDS:
Intensifying efforts
2006 GA Political Declaration on
HIV/AIDS: UA by 2015
2009 Political Declaration towards an
integrated and balanced strategy
1. Demand reduction and related matters
2. Supply reduction and related measures
3. Countering money-laundering and promoting
judicial cooperation to enhance international
cooperation.
CND 2014 High Level Review of
achievements
UNGASS2016
• In Dec.2012 General
Assembly resolution to
hold a special session on
drugs in 2016
• In New York, from 19 to 21
April 2016
• 193 Member States
• CND Board in charge of
preparation
Format of UNGASS 2016
• General debate and 5 Interactive round tables
• Round table 1: Demand reduction and related measures (Health and
Drugs)
• Round table 2: Supply reduction and related measures; (Drugs and Crime)
• Round table 3: Cross-cutting issues: drugs and human rights, youth,
women, children and communities:
• Round table 4: Cross-cutting issues: new challenges, threats and realities
in preventing and addressing the world drug problem in compliance with
relevant international law, including the three drug control conventions;
strengthening the principle of common and shared responsibility and
international cooperation:
• Round table 5: Alternative development; regional, interregional and
international cooperation on development-oriented balanced drug control
policy; addressing socioeconomic issues:
• Round table 1: Demand reduction and related
measures (Health and Drugs)
– (i) Demand reduction and related measures, including prevention and
treatment, as well as health-related issues, including HIV/AIDS prevention,
treatment and care;
– (ii) Ensuring the availability of controlled substances for medical and scientific
purposes, while preventing their diversion;
• Round table 3: Cross-cutting issues: drugs and
human rights, youth, women, children and
communities:
– (i) Addressing drug-related issues in full conformity with the purposes and the
principles of the Charter of the United Nations, international law and the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other relevant international law,
including the three drug control conventions;
– (ii) Drugs and youth, women, children and communities;
Output
a “short, substantive, concise and action-oriented
document comprising a set of operational
recommendations”
MAIN STEPS
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Inputs for draft zero by 11 September 2015
Review draft zero: CND intersessional 24 Sept 2015
Review Reconvened 58th CND (9 December 2015)
Final document: 59th CND (March 2016)
Adoption by GA (April 2016)
Civil society engagement
• Join the New York NGO Committee on Drugs
(NYNGOC) and/or the Vienna NGO Committee
on Drugs (VNGOC)
• Educate public opinion, lobby your government
to promote more progressive drug policies
during international debates.
• Send out a civil society submission to UNODC,
at the civil society page of its official UNGASS
website.
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Informal Interactive Stakeholder Consultation in
preparations for the UNGASS
The President of the General Assembly Mr. Mogens
Lykketoft, together with the CSTF will host the
“Informal Interactive Stakeholder Consultation in
preparations for the UNGASS” in New York on 10
February 2016.
The meeting takes place in the Trusteeship Council
Chamber, United Nations Headquarters, New York from
11:00 - 18:00.
Thank You
https://www.unodc.org/ungass2016/
@UNGASS2016