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World leaders to make bold, groundbreaking recommendations for major reform to global drug policy
Submitted by: Danny Kushlick
Post Date:
3rd Sep 2014
Members of the Global Commission on Drug Policy
On Tuesday, 9 September, the
Global Commission on Drug Policy will release
Taking Control: Pathways to Drug Policies that Work, a new, groundbreaking report, at a press conference in New York City.
The event will be
live-streamed and speakers will include former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, former Colombian President César Gaviria, former Swiss President Ruth Dreifuss, Richard Branson and others.
The Commissioners will then meet with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson in the afternoon following the press conference.
The report reflects a new evolution in the thinking of the Commissioners, who are set to become the most distinguished group of high-level leaders to ever call for far-reaching changes to global drug policy.
In 2011, the Commission’s initial
report broke new ground in both advancing and globalizing the debate over drug prohibition and its alternatives. The Commission’s work has created conditions for not just former presidents but
current presidents to speak out as well.
Recent developments in Latin America and the United States instigated the upcoming
UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on Drugs in 2016, and created an opportunity to lay the foundation for a new drug control regime for the 21st century.
Below is a full list of the Global Commission's members:
Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations and chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation, Ghana
Louise Arbour, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Canada
Pavel Bém, former Mayor of Prague, Czech Republic
Richard Branson, entrepreneur, advocate for social causes, founder of the Virgin Group, cofounder of The Elders, United Kingdom
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil (chair)
Maria Cattaui, Petroplus Holdings Board member, former Secretary-General of the International Chamber of Commerce, Switzerland
Ruth Dreifuss, former President of Switzerland and Minister of Home Affairs
César Gaviria, former President of Colombia
Asma Jahangir, human rights activist, former UN Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary, Extrajudicial and Summary Executions, Pakistan
Michel Kazatchkine, UN Secretary General Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and former executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, France
Aleksander Kwasniewski, former President of Poland
Richard Lagos, former President of Chile
George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece
Jorge Sampaio, former President of Portugal
George P. Shultz, former Secretary of State, United States (honorary chair)
Javier Solana, former European Union High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy , Spain
Thorvald Stoltenberg, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Norway
Mario Vargas Llosa, writer and public intellectual, Peru
Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve and of the Economic Recovery Board
John Whitehead, former Deputy Secretary of State, former Co-Chairman Goldman Sachs & Co. and founding Chairman, 9/11 Memorial & Museum
Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico
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