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– DAY FOUR – Thursday 23 April 2009
Breaking from the past:
A member of Kormix, the hip
hop group made up of drug
users in Cambodia,
demonstrates the
breakdancing skills that
have inspire Cambodian
street kids to swap drug use
for dance, art and education,
at a conference reception on
Tuesday night.
Since being deported from
California five years ago, KK
set up Kormix and a dance
school, Tiny Toones, to
inspire children from Phnom
Penh's poorest
neighbourhoods.
'Breakdancing didn't exist in
Cambodia,' KK told the
Daily
Update
.
We're giving kids a chance
to dream and do what they
want. All the kids who are
involved are now clean.
From being a nobody they
know they can now become
a star in Cambodia.'
About the daily update
Additional meeting:
International Doctors' Harm Reduction Network
In the workshop lounge
– Meeting to discuss the launch of the above:
Do we need one? Why do we need one?
Thursday 23 April, 12.45-
13.45.
All doctors welcome, as well as interested others. Contacts: Chris
Ford, UK or Simon Boerboom, Netherlands. If you can't make it, email
chrishelen.ford@virgin.net
Conference notice
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Drink and
Drugs News
(DDN) in the UK. DDN is a free fortnightly magazine circulated to 11,300 UK substance
misuse workers, and is read worldwide online. The DDN website, which contains current and back issues
of the magazine, is freely accessible at www.drinkanddrugsnews.com
To advertise in DDN, email ian@cjwellings.com. Daily Updates will be available on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday mornings at the conference, and will include late changes to the programme.
Reporting team: Claire Brown, David Gilliver, Ian Ralph. Layout: Jez Tucker
. For editorial enquiries or
feedback, please email claire@cjwellings.com
M13 (The UN High Level
Segment on Drug Control:
reflections and implications
for international drug policy)
This session will now be
chaired by Rebecca Schleifer
from Human Rights Watch. The
panel will now also include
Pavlo Skala from the
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
in Ukraine.
Closing Session
(15:15 – 16:30)
The 2009 Film Festival Award
will now be presented by Peter
Higgs. In addition to the listing
in the programme, this session
will also include the
presentation of the 2009 Bonnie
Devlin Memorial Scholarship.
Please also note
that the
Thursday lunch break is from
12:30 to 13:30, and not 12:30 to
14:15 as the programme states.
Daily Update erratum
'Coverage needs cash' (
Daily
Update
, 21 April, page 5) The
UN regional task force's
projected figure for required
resources to provide harm
reduction measures in 15 Asian
countries until 2015 is in excess
of $2bn, not $7bn as reported.
'Compulsory treatment denies
human rights' (
Daily Update
, 22
April, page 7) Sonia Bezziccheri
from UNODC's quote should
read: 'We want to see drug
dependence at the heart of
public health policy' not drug
policy, as reported.
Programme
changes
THURSDAY 23 APRIL