{"id":13908,"date":"2016-03-07T11:56:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T16:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=13908"},"modified":"2022-10-04T13:09:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T17:09:04","slug":"promoting-smart-policy-on-drugs-brief-to-the-minister-of-health","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/promoting-smart-policy-on-drugs-brief-to-the-minister-of-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting Smart Policy on Drugs<!--more-->: Brief to the Minister of Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;The UN General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS) in April 2016 is a significant\u00a0opportunity for Canada<!--more-->, in collaboration with other Member States, specialized UN agencies and civil society\u00a0organizations, to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>engage in an open and honest discussion about how the international drug control treaties are \u2014\u00a0and are not \u2014\u00a0working;<\/li>\n<li>explore and debate the rationale for considering alternative approaches; and<\/li>\n<li>promote the development and implementation of more effective responses to \u201cthe world drug\u00a0problem\u201d based on public health principles, respect for human rights and scientific evidence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[&#8230;]\n<p>&#8220;The National UNGASS Working Group has put together 10\u00a0priority issues for consideration as\u00a0negotiations proceed in the lead up to the UNGASS and to the upcoming session of the UN Commission on\u00a0Narcotic Drugs (CND) (March 9-17, 2016), where much of the substance of the UNGASS outcome document will\u00a0be decided.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pageFooter\">\n<h1>Related Publication<\/h1>\n<h2><a href=\"..\/civil-society-statement-the-ungass-outcome-document-diplomacy-or-denialism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil Society Statement: The UNGASS Outcome Document: Diplomacy Or Denialism?<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Promoting Smart Policy on Drugs: Brief to the Minister of Health\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/13905\/?tmstv=1775729035\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[147],"publication_type":[170],"publication_language":[184,185],"class_list":["post-13908","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-drug-policy","publication_type-advocacy","publication_language-english","publication_language-french"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/13908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/13908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22199,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/13908\/revisions\/22199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=13908"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=13908"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=13908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}