Dejusticia participates in meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna

Tuesday, march 15: RESOLVING THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF UNTREATED PAIN BY IMPROVING ACCESS TO CONTROLLED MEDICINES WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE SDGs

Governments and their health systems must respect human rights in drug control policy to ensure that people suffering from chronic or severe pain have access to opioids. This, taking into account that a human rights approach to access to medicines is both legally binding according to international law and politically adequate for identifying and correcting the barriers in access to pain relief medicines.

Organized by the Governments of Lithuania and Panama, the UNODC Drug Prevention and

Health Branch, the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Human Rights

Watch, the Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association, the International Association for the

Study of Pain, the Pain and Policy Studies Group, Dejusticia, the African Palliative Care

Association, Pallium India and the Union for International Cancer Control.

Wednesday, march 16: THE ECONOMICS OF GLOBAL DRUG POLICIES

Organized by the Government of Switzerland and the London School of Economics.

WOMEN, DRUG POLICY AND INCARCERATION IN THE AMERICAS

Organized by the Washington Office on Latin America, the International Drug Policy Consortium,

Dejusticia, Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales and the Organization of American States

Inter-American Commission on Women

ENSURING MORE PROPORTIONATE, HUMANE AND EFFECTIVE APPROACHES TO DRUG POLICY

Organized by the Government of Uruguay, the International Drug Policy Consortium, Penal Reform International and Dejusticia

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