We filmed the largest international harm reduction gathering to give you an insight on what is happening with this movement around the world.
We produced an 8 minute video report from the conference by interviewing participants from various parts of the world about key issues discussed at the event – watch it below!
Opening ceremony
Chaired by: Naomi Burke-Shyne, Executive Director, Harm Reduction International, and José Queiroz, Executive Director, APDES
Welcome remarks: José Queiroz, Executive Director, APDES
Keynote address: Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Speakers: Dr. Raquel Duarte, Secretary of State for Health, Portugal Professor Alexandre Quintanilha, President, Parliamentary Committee on Education and Science; Chair, Commission for the National Strategy to Combat Drugs (1998) Dr. Ricardo Baptista Leite, MP, Portugal; President, UNITE – Global Parliamentarians Network Rui Coimbra Morais, Consumidores Associados Sobrevivem Organizados (CASO)
Awards Presentations: Carol and Travis Jenkins Award International Rolleston Award National Rolleston Award
Closing Keynote Speech: Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio, Former President of Portugal(1996-2016), member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy
Plenary 1: Drug Policy: The Push for Justice
Chair: Ann Fordham
Mary Chinery-Hesse, West Africa Commission on Drugs
Kristine Mendoza, StreetLawPH
Imani Robinson, Co-director, RE:GENERATE Festival 2018
Bikas Gurung, Asian Network of People Who Use Drugs
Plenary 2: Drugs and Beyond: Upholding Human Rights
Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes, Dejusticia
Sarah Belal, Justice Project Pakistan
Tenu Avafia, United Nations Development Programme
Nanna W Gotfredsen, Gadejuristen – The Street Lawyers
Plenary 3: People before Politics: Harm Reduction on the Frontline
Zoë Dodd, Toronto Overdose Prevention Society
Luca Stevenson, International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe
Raull Santiago, Coletivo Papo Reto
Catherine Cook, Harm Reduction International
Closing ceremony
Chaired by: Naomi Burke-Shyne, Executive Director, Harm Reduction International
Speakers: Dr. Shannon Hader, Deputy Executive Director, UNAIDS Louise Vincent, Executive Director, Urban Survivors Union Prof. Carl Hart, Chair, Department of Psychology, Columbia University
Award: Brooklyn McNeil Rae of Hope Award, sponsored by the Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation
Film: Rights Reporter Foundation’s Film of HR19
Press conferences:
Official opening press conference
Opioid press conference
Drug checking press conference
