The intersessional panel discussion aims to provide space for a constructive and inclusive dialogue on human rights challenges in addressing the world drug situation.
The conference seeks to explore how further regulation of the drug market can provide a solution to the challenges posed by criminalised drug economies.
Despite increasing incarceration of women, and women disproportionately imprisoned for drug-related offences, the stories and experiences of women sentenced to death for drug offences are mostly unheard.
The 2023 thematic discussions will be structured around a comprehensive stock-taking of progress toward implementing responses to the challenges identified by the taking stock paragraph of the 2019 Ministerial Declaration.
World AIDS Day 2023 will emphasise the importance of community in ending AIDS, the need to centre communities in planning and break down barriers to leadership.
The shift towards synthetic drugs, coupled with prohibition-led unpredictable and toxic drug supplies, has sparked a harrowing overdose crisis in North America, demanding policy reforms that advance harm reduction and learn from the pitfalls of the 'war on drugs'.