{"id":7928,"date":"2022-11-14T01:14:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T19:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7928"},"modified":"2025-03-28T23:50:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:20:45","slug":"international-forum-on-right-to-drug-free-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/international-forum-on-right-to-drug-free-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"International Forum on \u2018Right to Drug-free Childhood\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About International Forum on \u2018Right to Drug-free Childhood\u2019:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is organised by\u00a0<strong>Fourth Wave Foundation (FWF) in partnership with United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and World Federation Against Drugs (WFAD).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Theme:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018Children Matter-Right to a Drug-Free Childhood\u2019 is the central theme of the meet.<\/li>\n<li>Fourth Wave Foundation\u2019s initiative against substance abuse named\u00a0<strong>\u2018VENDA\u2019 (No to Drugs),<\/strong>\u00a0strongly advocates the \u2018alternative pursuit\u2019 model in Kerala on the lines of Icelandic Model (IM).<\/li>\n<li>Major activities of \u2018VENDA\u2019 include empowerment programmes for children, football training, summer camp, football tourney \u2018Venda Cup\u2019 and awareness classes for parents, teachers, counsellors, police and excise officers.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018VENDA\u2019 is active in districts that have a very high number of drug-addicted teens found by the National Action Plan for Drug Demand Reduction (NAPDDR) survey conducted by the Narcotic Control Bureau.<\/li>\n<li>The increasing relevance of the\u00a0<strong>Icelandic Model (IM)<\/strong>\u00a0of intervention in bringing teenagers affected by drug use disorders back to normal life through alternative pursuits will be a key topic of deliberations at the International Forum on \u2018Right to Drug-free Childhood\u2019.\n<ul>\n<li>Around 30 years ago, Iceland was the hotspot of teenage drug consumption in Europe.<\/li>\n<li>Today, the country stands first on the European list of de-addicted teenagers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/icelandic-model-a-key-topic-at-drug-free-childhood-global-meet-in-thiruvananthapuram\/article66132088.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Forum aims to Establish the need to create Substance Abuse Free Environments for children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}