World Drug Report 2025

The VNGOC together with the UNODC Civil Society Unit and the UNODC Research and Analysis Branch will be holding a webinar on 4 September 2025 3PM to 4.30PM to present and discuss the World Drug Report 2025, which was launched on 26 June. (https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/world-drug-report-2025.html)

Opening:

Billy Batware, UNODC Civil Society Unit

Matej Košir, Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs

Presentation of the World Drug Report 2025

Angela Me, UNODC Research and Analysis Branch

Civil Society Presentations

Gisela Hansen, Dianova International: “Using the World Drug Report to promote gender- and age-sensitive drug policy”

Ernesto Cortés, Costa Rican Association on Drug Studies and Interventions (ACEID): “Leveraging data from the World Drug Report to strengthen civil society submissions to UN human rights treaty bodies”

Discussion

Open Q&A and Discussion