Rome Consensus for a Humanitarian Drug Policy

The Rome Consensus for a Humanitarian Drug Policy is a framework for dialogue and cooperation that commits 114 National Societies of Red Cross and Red Crescent from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe to promote and implement humanitarian approaches to drug policy. The Rome Consensus aims at raising the profile of drug policy to the forefront of social concerns, hinging formulation and implementation of drug control on public health concerns.

* The foundation text of the Rome Consensus reinforces the Red Cross - Red Crescent movement’s engagement in drug policy. In a nutshell, within the Rome Consensus Declaration National Societies:
** Recognize the need for a new humanitarian, realistic, public health and socially based drug policy;
** Establish a new commitment to a humanitarian drug policy based on reason and compassion that generates action, free from ideology, force, stigmatization and discrimination;
** Commit the strength of the Red Cross - Red Crescent Movement provided by its auxiliary role to national governments on humanitarian assistance, to actively encourage the formulation and implementation of a humanitarian drug policy that saves lives and alleviates human suffering.

Chairs of the Rome Consensus

The Senlis Council co-chairs the Rome Consensus for a Humanitarian Drug Policy together with the Italian Red Cross. [For the website of The Senlis Council, please visit www.senliscouncil.net. For the website of the Italian Red Cross, please visit www.cri.it]

Recent Events

Rome Consensus Regional Meeting for Eastern and Southern Africa – Entebbe, Uganda, 4-5 July 2008

The Rome Consensus Regional Meeting for Eastern and Southern Africa gathered Presidents and Secretary Generals from Red Cross National Societies from the region to discuss the drug policy situation in Southern and Eastern Africa and the Red Cross – Red Crescent engagement in Humanitarian Drug Policy.

Red Cross – Red Crescent World Congress on Humanitarian Drug Policy – Barcelona, Spain, 5-7 March 2008

The Red Cross- Red Crescent World Congress on Humanitarian Drug Policy was hosted by the Spanish Red Cross with the Support of the Senlis Council in Barcelona on 5-7 March 2008. The Congress, with the participation of over sixty National Societies of Red Cross and Red Crescent, aimed at engaging the whole RC/RC movement in the formulation and implementation of humanitarian approaches to global drug policy.

Rome Consensus First African Regional Meeting – Praia, Cape Verde, 13-16 December 2007

Seventeen National Societies of Red Cross and Red Crescent from Western Africa met in Cape Verde to discuss the opportunity the Rome Consensus represents to National Societies in the region to mobilize on drug policy issues. The meeting was hosted by the Cape Verde Red Cross and was supported by the Senlis Council.

Rome Consensus Regional Meeting for the Caribbean and Central America – St. George's, Grenada, 6-9 December 2007

The Rome Consensus Regional Meeting for the Caribbean and Central America, hosted in St Georges, Grenada by the Grenada Red Cross and the Senlis Council presented the Rome Consensus for a Humanitarian Drug policy as a key framework to engage Red Cross societies in the Caribbean and in Central America in humanitarian solutions for regional drug challenges. [ [http://www.caribbeanredcross.org/newsletter/enl9_novdec07/romecon.htm Caribbean Red Cross join together to promote a humanitarian drug policy in the region] ]

The Rome Consensus Regional Meeting for Asia and the Pacific - Manila, Philippines, 27-29 September 2007

The meeting was hosted by The Philippine National Red Cross Society in partnership with The Senlis Council. The Meeting raised awareness on drug policy concerns, teasing out the main issues regarding substance abuse in Asia and the Pacific, opened a fruitful debate on drug policy. [ [http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/504/nine_asian_red_cross_crescent_sign_rome_consensus_humanitarian_drug_policy Asia: Nine National Red Cross/Red Crescent Groups Endorse Humanitarian Drug Policies] ] [ [http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6274620.html Asian Red Cross societies pledge to advocate humanitarian drug policy] ]

List of Signatories

The following Red Cross/ Red Crescent National Societies are signatories of the Rome Consensus for a Humanitarian Drug Policy:

Europe

Middle East

Americas

Africa

Asia - Pacific

IFDC Bodies

*Youth Commission
*Development Commission
*Health Commission
*Mediterranean Centre Commission

References

External links

* [http://www.senliscouncil.net/ The Senlis Council]
* [http://www.publicsecurity.senliscouncil.net/ Centre of Excellence on Public Security]
* [http://www.cri.it/ Italian Red Cross]
* [http://www.ifrc.org/address/directory.asp Red Cross/Red Crescent National Societies - Directory of addresses]
* [http://www.unodc.org/ United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)]
* [http://www.who.int/ World Health Organization (WHO)]
* [http://www.vngoc.org/ Vienna NGO Committee On Narcotic Drugs]

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