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The meeting was marked by high tensions and the largest attendance in the Commission’s history.
The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) held its 67th session in March 2024. The meeting was marked by high tensions and the largest attendance in the Commission’s history.
Despite high hopes for the midterm review of the 2019 Ministerial Declaration, the resulting document was disappointing and failed to address the glaring failures of the global drug control regime.
Against this backdrop, Colombia led a historic charge, supported by 62 countries, to challenge the punitive drug control paradigm and ultimately precipitate the first-ever vote on CND resolutions in decades.
The session placed human rights, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, and harm reduction on the spotlight, prompting fierce debate. Divergent government positions on cannabis regulation and overdose prevention added further fodder to an uncharacteristically tense session — bringing to the fore the fractures within the CND.
As the world moves ever closer to health and rights-based drug policies, contested by a handful of recalcitrant countries, the CND faces an existential crisis: address dissensus and consider transformative reform, or fall apart at the seams.
CND Proceedings_2024Previous reports in this series:
- Stuck in the inertia of the past: Report of the 66th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
- The 65th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs: Report of proceeding
- The 2021 Commission on Narcotic Drugs – Report of Proceedings
- The 2020 Commission on Narcotic Drugs – Report of Proceedings
- The 2019 Commission on Narcotic Drugs and its Ministerial Segment: Report of Proceedings
- IDPC report of proceedings: The 2018 Commission on Narcotic Drugs
- IDPC report of proceedings: The 2017 Commission on Narcotic Drugs
- IDPC report of proceedings: The 2016 Commission on Narcotic Drugs and its special segment on preparations for the UNGASS on the world drug problem
- IDPC report of proceedings: The 2015 Commission on Narcotic Drugs and its special segment on preparations for the UNGASS on the world drug problem
- IDPC report of proceedings: The 2014 Commission on Narcotic Drugs and its High Level Segment
- IDPC report of proceedings: The 2013 Commission on Narcotic Drugs
- IDPC report of proceedings: The 2012 Commission on Narcotic Drugs
- IDPC report of proceedings: The 2011 Commission on Narcotic Drugs
- IDPC report of proceedings: The 2010 Commission on Narcotic Drugs
- IDPC report of proceedings: The 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs
- IDPC report of proceedings: The 2008 Commission on Narcotic Drugs
- IDPC report of proceedings: The 2007 Commission on Narcotic Drugs