Youth RISE will be blogging live from this years UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in March. The CND Blog is a project of the International Drug Policy Consortium and is administered in partnership with Youth RISE. The website address is www.cndblog.org and the event is taking from the 11th-16th of March.

The blog is a great way to find out your government's positions on global drug policy. The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) is the central policy-making body of the UN drug control system. Despite its key mandate, the CND chooses to work in secrecy - its meetings are not webcast, minutes or summary records are not available to the public, and the reports of the meeting are extremely limited. The CND Blog is a joint civil society effort to ensure transparency and provide hour-by-hour records of the discussions and decisions adopted at the 2012 CND.