{"id":17594,"date":"2019-03-18T13:11:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=17594"},"modified":"2022-09-29T15:44:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T19:44:01","slug":"legal-network-statement-to-cnd","status":"publish","type":"news22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/legal-network-statement-to-cnd\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Network Statement to CND"},"content":{"rendered":"On March 18, 2019, the Legal Network made an oral statement to the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs &#8211;\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-CA\">\u201cImplementation of the international drug control treaties.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span lang=\"EN-CA\">Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to contribute to this discussion regarding the implementation of the international drug control treaties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\">For more than 20 years, Member States have recognized, in multiple unanimous resolutions of the General Assembly and of this Commission, that \u201ccountering the world drug problem\u201d must be carried out \u201cwith full respect for \u2026 all human rights and fundamental freedoms.\u201d This was reaffirmed most recently in the <\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><a href=\"http:\/\/undocs.org\/E\/CN.7\/2019\/L.11\">Ministerial Declaration<\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\"> adopted by this Commission last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\">However, too often the reality has diverged\u2014and still diverges\u2014from this important commitment.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For the full text of the statement, please see the download available below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Legal-Network-Statement-to-CND-March-18-2019.pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/17595\/?tmstv=1776496845\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 18, 2019, the Legal Network made an oral statement to the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs &#8211;\u00a0\u201cImplementation of the international drug control treaties.\u201d\u00a0 &#8220;Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to contribute to this discussion regarding the implementation of the international drug control treaties. For more than 20 years, Member States have recognized, &#8230; <a title=\"Legal Network Statement to CND\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/legal-network-statement-to-cnd\/\" aria-label=\"More on Legal Network Statement to CND\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[147],"publication_language":[184],"class_list":["post-17594","news22","type-news22","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","publication_topics-drug-policy","publication_language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/17594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/17594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17597,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/17594\/revisions\/17597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=17594"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=17594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}