Today we have started the campaign, The 2003 Vienna Declaration, to support the UN Conventions on Drugs and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and by that to also counteract the pro drug advocates and their efforts to seek political support to undermine the UN conventions. If they succeed it will open the door for worldwide legalization of illicit drugs. The campaign is coordinated by HNN international Centre in Sweden,

The aim is to reach 1 million signatures before April 2003 - a real challenge! But if we ALL - as committed citizens, parents, members of different organizations - do our utmost to spread the declaration and encourage people to sign and spread it further - we will succeed! The collection of signatures will be presented to the UN at the UN conference in Vienna! To achieve our aim we need all committed people we can reach around the world. YOU are one of them! YOU are important!

This is an appeal to all drug preventionists everywhere to join the campaign and to do all you can (spread the declaration and encourage people and organizations to sign it) to make The 2003 Vienna Declaration a huge success! Time is short but - Together we can do it!
Some suggestions of what you can do:

? Send the Declaration via e-mail to as many people as possible and encourage them to sign and send it further. Do not forget your friends abroad! We need signatures from around the world.

? Send the Declaration to organizations and NGOs and encourage them, as individuals and organizations, to do the same.

? Try to collect as many signatures as possible, maybe your children, neighbors, church… would like to help. Maybe you can place the Declaration and name-lists at the local police station, in shops, in nursery schools, in doctors waiting rooms …. ? If you have good connection with media (radio, national and local newspapers, TV) – try to get them interested in the campaign and what the legalizers are up to.

? If you are member of an organization with a homepage – try to place information about the campaign on the web site and a link to The Vienna Declaration on it.

I am sure you can think of more possibilities. Only our own fantasy and creativity limit what we can do!

LET US START THE WORK NOW!
The full text and information of The Vienna Declaration can be found on:

www.hnnsweden.com/declaration.htm
Everything that is needed to gather signatures can be downloaded as PDF-files from: www.hnnsweden.com/collect_signatures.htm
If you have any questions or suggestions please contact secretariat@hnnsweden.com
Regards
MaLou Lindholm
Deputy Director HNN International Centre
Delagate to Drug Watch International