18.03.19 Monday

9:00-9:50

MOE79, Side event Global topic, Organized by the Transform Drug Policy Foundation.

Streaming/participation: Eliza Kurcevic

13:10-14:00

MOE79,  Side event Global, Police statement of support for drug policy reform, Organized by Law Enforcement Action Partnership, IDPC, Center for Law Enforcement and Public Health.

Streaming/participation: Eliza Kurcevic, Olga Belyaeva

14:20-15:10

M6, Side event National, Spearheading prison health reforms in Eastern Europe, Organized by the Governments of the Republic of Moldova and Romania, and the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe.

Listening and sharing: Olga Belyaeva

19.03.19 Tuesday 

9:00-9:50

M7, Side event Global, The death penalty for drug-related offences: the impact on women and vulnerable groups, Organized by the Governments of Austria, Canada, France, Mexico, New Zealand and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the European Union, Amnesty International and Harm Reduction International.

Listening and sharing: Eliza Kurcevic, Olga Belyaeva

13:10-14:00

M7, Side event National, Presentation of annual drug review for 2018, Organized by Drug Control Agency of Tajikistan.

Streaming/participation: Olga Belyaeva

13:30-15:00

MBR-A, Special event Global, Leaving no one behind: people at the centre of HR, human rights and public health approach to drug use, Organized by the Netherlands Government, WHO, IDPC, INPUD, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, UNODC – HIV/AIDS section.

Streaming/participation: Anna Dovbakh

14:20-15:10

M6, Side event, Drug prevention approaches that make a difference, Organized by the governments of Serbia and Iceland, the Council of Europe Pompidou Group.

Streaming/participation: Olga Belyaeva or Anna Dovbakh

14:20-15:10

MOE79, Side event National, The role of efficient interagency coordination on fight against drug abuse and the future treatment and rehabilitative responses to drug problems, Organized by the Government of Georgia and the European Union. 

Streaming/participation: Eliza Kurcevic (History of White Noise Movement struggle for decriminalization in Georgia here)

16:00

Board Room D (C-Building, 4th floor),  VNGOC Annual General Assembly, Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (VNGOC).

Participants: Olga Belyaeva, Anna Dovbakh, Eliza Kurcevic

20.03.19 Wednesday

9:00-9:50

M7, Side event Global, Women, incarceration and drug policy: Specific vulnerabilities that call for focused responses, Organized by the Center for Legal and Social Studies, the International Drug Policy Consortium, the Washington Office on Latin America, Women and Harm Reduction International Network, Masyarakat Community Legal Aid Institute, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association and the NoBox Transitions Foundation. 

Participation: Eliza Kurcevic – EHRA presentation. Olga Belyaeva and Anna Dovbakh – support (More about EHRA input in Womxn freedom and Movement here)

11:00-12:00

Boardroom D (C-Building, 4th floor), Informal dialogue, UNODC Executive Director, The dialogue will be based on questions already submitted following the call from the Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (VNGOC).

Participants: Olga Belyaeva, Anna Dovbakh, Eliza Kurcevic

12:00-13:00

Boardroom-D (C-Building, 4th floor), Informal dialogue with International Narcotic Control Board (INCB), The dialogue will be based on questions already submitted following the call from the Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (VNGOC).

Participants: Olga Belyaeva, Anna Dovbakh, Eliza Kurcevic

13:10-14:00

M3, Side event National, Organization of drug abuse prevention in Russia. Target interventions on specific groups of populations, Organized by Russian Government.

Streaming/participation: Olga Belyaeva

14:20-15:10

M6, Side event National, Drug policy of the Kyrgyz republic, including the participation in the EU cooperation programmes CADAP and EU-ACT, Organized by the Government of Kyrgyzstan and the European Union.

Streaming/participation: Olga Belyaeva (Continue advocacy for changing the new codes of misconduct and crime)

14:20-15:10

MOE79, Side event Global, Global youth perspective on shifting drug policies, Organized by Youth organizations for Drug Action, Students for Sensible Drug Policy and Youth RISE.

Streaming/participation: Eliza Kurcevic

14:20-15:10

M7, Side event Global, Launch of the civil society guide on UNGASS outcome document and SDGs, Organized by the Government of Sweden, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Civil Society Team and the Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs.

Streaming/participation: Olga Belyaeva

21.03.19 Thursday

9:00-9:50

MOE100, Side event Global, “Taking stock of the world drug policy problem”:  impacts of the war on drugs, Organized by the International Network of People who Use Drugs, the Asian Network of People who Use Drugs and the Eurasian Network of People who Use Drugs.

Participants: Olga Belyaeva, Anna Dovbakh, Eliza Kurcevic

13:10-14:00

M2, Side event national, The New psychoactive substances phenomenon in Ukraine: trends, challenges and possible responses within framework of national policy on demand and supply reduction, Organized by the Government of Ukraine, the European Union, and Fundación Internacional y para Iberoamérica de Administración y Políticas Públicas.

Streaming/participation: Olga Belyaeva

13:10-14:00

M3, Side event national/ interactive session, Drug policy saving public costs: sharing best practices on approaches of non-repressive drug policy, Organized by the Governments of Estonia and Lithuania, the Association for Safer Drug Policies, and the Eurasian Harm Reduction Association.

Streaming/participation: Eliza Kurceviс presentation, Olga Belyaeva supporting for documentation (Young Wave Lithuania community case here)

14:20-15:10

М3, Side event Global, Alternative values, alternative facts: drug policy and justice as casualties in the struggle between authoritarianism and democracy, Organized by DRCNet Foundation, the National Alliance for Medication Assisted Recovery, Associazione Luca Coscioni, Broken No More, Students for Sensible Drug Policy Sierra Leone, Students for Sensible Drug Policy – University of Utah, St. Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction, the SAOL Project, Arewa Youth Trust Foundation, Death Penalty Focus, No Peace Without Justice, Science for Democracy, Legalize Belarus, AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa, Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust, and A New PATH Parents for Addiction Treatment and Healing, and The Association for Safer Drug Policies in Norway.

Listening and sharing: Olga Belyaeva