Originally instigated by a resolution of a special session on drugs
of the UN’s General Assembly in 1987, the annual awareness day was
founded to mark the centenary of China’s early efforts to combat the
trade in opium – widely regarded as the start of the international war
on drugs.
Celebrated each year on June 26th, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime
uses the commemorative day to highlight the dangers of drug use and
their illegal trade and provides educational material to teachers and
public officials all over the world to help spread the message about the
extreme cultural and economic harm the trade in drugs is still doing
across the globe one hundred years after the war on drugs was initially
launched in Shanghai around the start of the 20th Century.
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| ലഹരി വിരുദ്ധ റാലി |
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