Follow-up to the special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem held in 2016, including the seven thematic areas of the outcome document of the special session

2017 ◽  
pp. 48-52
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
General Assembly ◽  
Special Session ◽  
Drug Problem ◽  
The World ◽  
Outcome Document

UNGASS 2016: Prospects for Treaty Reform and UN System-Wide Coherence on Drug Policy

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Jelsma
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Special Session ◽  
Drug Problem ◽  
Regime Changes ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
The World ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Treaty Reform

AbstractThis paper explores key lessons from the 1990 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Drug Abuse (UNGASS 1990) and the 1998 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 1998), and tracks subsequent policy events and trends. It discusses the wide array of increasing tensions and cracks in the “Vienna consensus,” as well as systemic challenges and recent treaty breaches. Various options for treaty reform are explored and the following questions are considered: Given policy developments around the world this past decade, what outcomes can the 2016 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 2016) have in terms of a new political compromise? How can UNGASS 2016 contribute to more system-wide coherence where previous attempts failed? Can UNGASS 2016 realistically initiate a process of modernizing the global drug control system and breathe oxygen into a system risking asphyxiation? Finally, is there a chance that treaty reform options will be discussed at all, or do today’s political realities still block possible future regime changes?

A Study in Social Guilt

1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-59
Author(s):  
Fred de Silva
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Real Life ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Special Session ◽  
Economic Equality ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Elemental Form

It is essential that the international community should follow up present major undertakings to help Third World countries achieve economic self-sufficiency. How ever, the ordinary man or woman, confronted with the bewildering mass of eco nomic formulations and technicalities employed in the approaches to a new inter- notional economic order, may be forgiven for wondering where the individual comes in. There is a danger that the means (international economic equality) may become more important than the ends (the satisfaction of basic human, i.e. indivi dual, needs and rights). A Third World journalist who was present at the Seventh special Session of the UN General Assembly and a participant in the 1975 Dag Hammarskjold Third World Journalists' Seminar suggests that the success of the joint endeavour will depend on the extent to which the collaborators understand the human problems involved in any exercise of give and take, and here he presents the problem in its most elemental form, in a sort of real-life allegory drawn from an experience in his own country, an essay in awakening the collective conscience of humanity.

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