The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs turns sixty years old on 30 March 2021. Join us to learn about its relationship with imperialism and the struggle for racial justice; its structure, provisions and history; and what resistance and advocacy look like within the framework it has created.
Date and Time: Tuesday 30th March 2021, 6:30pm - 8:30pm (online)
Speakers:
Kojo Koram: legal academic and editor of 'The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line' (2019, Pluto Books)
Christopher Hallam: drug historian and research associate at the Global Drug Policy Observatory (Swansea University)
Judy Chang: Executive Director of the International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD)
Chaired by Hannah Webb of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers.
Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sixty-years-of-the-single-convention-on-narcotic-drugs-tickets-147596957473
(Picture: Wikimedia Commons, Marjah, Afghanistan, 2010)
