Global Drug Policy: Challenges, Trends and Opportunities
Year
2011 - Los Angeles, CA
Speakers
Coletta Youngers, Senior Fellow, Washington Office on Latin America, Washington, DC
Sanho Tree, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington DC
Alex Wodak, Director, Alcohol and Drug Services at St. Vincent’s Hospital, and President, Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, Sydney, Australia
Rebecca Schleifer, Advocacy Director, Health and Human Rights Division, Human Rights Watch, New York, NY (invited)
Amanda Feilding, Director, The Beckley Foundation, Oxford, UK
Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Director, Global Drug Policy Program, Open Society Foundations, Warsaw, Poland
Facilitator: Allan Clear, Executive Director, Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY
Jonathan Cohen, Director, Law and Health Initiative, Open Society Foundations, New York, NY (invited)
Who will shape the future of global drug policy reform? What is the impact of the Global Commission? What are cutting edge issues and questions at the intersection of drug policy and human rights, HIV/AIDS prevention and public health? How are the UNODC and other global agencies evolving in their perspective on drug policy? How is the U.S. role evolving? What’s the latest with efforts to revise the UN anti-drug Conventions or to put forward a new model? And to what extent is drug policy reform gaining ground in Asia and Africa?