India elected to INCB
- Category
International Relations
- Published
7th Jun, 2019
-
India’s Jagjit Pavadia was re-elected to the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) with the highest margin.
Context
India’s Jagjit Pavadia was re-elected to the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) with the highest margin.
About
- Pavadia has been a member of the INCB since 2015. With current re-election, she will remain a member till 2025.
- Her win provides more global space, hence more clout.
International Narcotics Control Board
- It is the independent and quasi-judicial monitoring body for the implementation of the United Nations international drug control conventions.
- It was established in 1968 in accordance with the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961.
- It consists of 13 members who are elected by the ECOSOC.
- Each of the 13 members is elected for a five-year term and serves in their personal capacity, not as government representatives.
- It is headquartered in Vienna.
- It ensures adequate supplies of narcotics are available for medical and scientific purposes It also publishes an annual report providing a comprehensive survey of the drug control situation in various parts of the world to ECOSOC through the Commission.
|