INCB President urges Member States at 60th session of Commission on Narcotic Drugs to implement gender-sensitive drug policies and ensure proportional responses to drug-related offences
(World News Austria)

For information only - not an official document UNIS/NAR/1316 16 March 2017 VIENNA, 16 March (United Nations Information Service) - The importance of Member States taking concrete action to achieve the health and welfare aims of the international drug control treaties was stressed by the President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Werner Sipp in his . Mr. Sipp presented an overview of the Board`s treaty-monitoring work over the past year , including the , which focused on `women and drugs`. Due to the significant discrepancy between the number of female drug users and the number of women who receive treatment for drug abuse, the disproportionate...