Items tagged with UNODC
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| Human Rights and drug policy [01.01.2020] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) has always believed in the need to find global answers to global problems, been a strong defender of multilateralis... |
| Taking stock of a decade of failed drug policies [22.10.2018] | Ten years ago, UN member states set themselves a target ‘to eliminate or reduce significantly and measurably’ the illicit cultivation, production, tr... |
| Misuse of opioids such as tramadol and fentanyl is 'global epidemic', report finds [27.06.2018] | The misuse of pharmaceutical opioids is fast becoming a “global epidemic”, with the largest quantities being seized in African countries for the seco... |
| More drugs, more deaths, more damage... [26.06.2018] | In 2012, Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, referred to current drug control efforts as something akin to riding a stationary bicycle. " One ke... |
| Colombia’s two anti-coca strategies are at war with each other [20.02.2018] | The government’s “comprehensive programme for illicit crop substitution” (PNIS) aims to replace the coca with a profitable legal crop. The crop-subst... |
| Evaluating global drug control [25.01.2018] | In March 2017, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) adopted Resolution 60/1 in which it called on the UNODC to ‘strengthen and streamline its exist... |
| If the U.S. legalizes marijuana, what happens to its international drug treaties? [10.01.2018] | When Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a Barack Obama-era federal policy that allowed recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington, he di... |
| Opioid tramadol destabilizes, fuels terror in parts of Africa, UN warns [15.12.2017] | The illegal trade and growing abuse of tramadol, a synthetic opioid, are destabilizing parts of West Africa, especially in the Sahel region, where it... |
| International cooperation against the world drug problem [19.07.2017] | This report prepared by the UN Secretary-General for the 72nd Session of the General Assembly provides an overview of the global situation on drugs, ... |
| Illegal drug market is booming, says UN watchdog [22.06.2017] | The world’s illicit drug economy is “thriving” owing to large increases in the production of heroin and cocaine and a wider spectrum of synthetic sub... |
| Mexico opens up its heroin fight to U.S., U.N. observers [07.04.2017] | For the first time in at least a decade, Mexico's army is allowing the United States and the United Nations to observe opium poppy eradication, a ste... |
| UNGASS 2016: A Broken or B-r-o-a-d Consensus? [05.07.2016] | A special session of the General Assembly took place in April revealing a growing divergence in the global drug policy landscape. Difficult negotiati... |
| Iran under pressure to abolish death penalty for drug trafficking [27.06.2016] | Iran is under pressure to end its use of death penalty against drug traffickers after facing a serious shortfall in the international funding of the ... |
| Is the global cocaine trade in decline? [23.06.2016] | The latest United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2016 World Drug Report presents a long-term analysis of cocaine production, seizures and ... |
| The UN’s war on drugs is a failure [02.04.2016] | A policy of prohibition has put the drugs trade in the hands of criminals and led to suffering for millions. 2008 was the year that the world didn’t ... |
| The other opioid crisis – people in poor countries can’t get the pain medication they need [24.03.2016] | Hospitals in the U.S. and Europe routinely prescribe opioids for chronic cancer pain, end-of-life palliative care and some forms of acute pain, like ... |
| Striving for system-wide coherence [11.03.2016] | In April 2016, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) will convene its 30th Special Session (or ‘UNGASS’) – and the third to focus on the ‘w... |
| Iran executed all adult men in one village for drug offences, official reveals [25.02.2016] | The entire adult male population of a village in southern Iran has been executed for drug offences, according to Iran’s vice-president for women and ... |
| As UNGASS approaches, yet another devastating UN critique of the drug war is published [08.12.2015] | A significant positive outcome has already emerged from next year’s UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs in the form of much more di... |
| UN agency urged to publish leaked paper backing drug legalisation [21.10.2015] | Delegates at the 2015 Harm Reduction Conference in Malaysia called on the United Nations drugs agency to officially release a leaked paper detailing ... |
| The truth behind the UNODC's leaked decriminalisation paper [20.10.2015] | The UN Office on Drugs and Crime has responded to the 'leak' of its paper calling for the decriminalisation of drug possession for personal use. The ... |
| UN attempt to decriminalise drugs foiled [19.10.2015] | A paper from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has been withdrawn after pressure from at least one country. The document, which was leaked, re... |
| UN poised to call for decriminalisation of drugs, says Richard Branson [19.10.2015] | The United Nations is on the verge of issuing a call for all governments to decriminalise the possession and use of all drugs, according to businessm... |
| The 2015 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [14.06.2015] | The international drug control regime is facing the most profound challenge of its existence. Member states have for some time been experimenting wit... |
| The new drug warriors [01.05.2015] | The war on drugs is edging towards a truce. Half of Americans want to lift the ban on cannabis. America’s change of heart has led many to wonder if t... |
| UNGASS 2016: Prospects for Treaty Reform and UN System-Wide Coherence on Drug Policy [28.04.2015] | This paper explores key lessons from the 1990 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Drug Abuse (UNGASS 1990) and the 1998 Special... |
| The Road to UNGASS 2016 [14.04.2015] | On 19th to 21st April 2016, there will be a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) held in New York, dedicated to the issue of drug... |
| Drugs and development: The great disconnect [31.12.2014] | This report argues that ‘drugs’ are a development issue and must be recognised as such by development agencies. The cultivation of opium poppy, coca ... |
| The UN really wishes that voters in Alaska and Oregon hadn’t legalized weed [13.11.2014] | The director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Yury Fedotov, said that state-level marijuana legalization initiatives in the U.S. are ... |
| A top UN official is not happy about US states legalizing weed [13.11.2014] | The UN's top narcotics official said on Wednesday that recent votes by US states to legalize marijuana have put America in deeper violation of the in... |
| U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [12.11.2014] | Moves by some U.S. states to legalize marijuana are not in line with international drugs conventions, the U.N. anti-narcotics chief said, adding he w... |
| Analysis: Rethinking global drug policy [15.09.2014] | What would the world look like if governments - instead of crime syndicates - controlled drug markets and drug use was decriminalized? A new report b... |
| Global drug policy is still deadly and ineffective [02.06.2014] | If you actually read the treaties, while they do set firm limitations on the legal, "non-medical" or "non-scientific" sale of schedule drugs — limits... |
| The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition [10.03.2014] | The cannabis plant has been used for spiritual, medicinal and recreational purposes since the early days of civilization. In this report the Transnat... |
| UN High-Level Segment on Drugs, March 2014 [28.02.2014] | On March 13-14, 2014, UN member states will gather in Vienna, Austria, for a High Level Segment of the annual UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND). ... |
| UNODC’s shifting position on drug policy: Progress and challenges [31.01.2014] | In March 2014, country delegations will gather at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to review progress and challenges in internat... |
| UNODC Executive Director releases "contributions" ahead of CND High-Level Segment on drugs [19.01.2014] | Ahead of the High-Level Segment on the world drug problem to take place on 13th and 14th January 2014, the UNODC Executive Director, Yuri Fedotov, ha... |
| INCB vs Uruguay: the art of diplomacy [17.12.2013] | International tensions over Uruguay’s decision to regulate the cannabis market reached new levels when Raymond Yans, president of the International N... |
| More U.N. states quietly say no to drug war [06.12.2013] | An internal United Nations draft document leaked last weekend has offered outsiders a rare look at longstanding disagreements between member states o... |
| IDPC Response to the UNODC World Drug Report 2013 [11.10.2013] | As is now to be expected, the World Drug Report 2013 represents an impressive and wide-ranging set of data, analysis and policy prescription, and pro... |
| Denmark ends Iranian drug crime support [09.04.2013] | The Danish development minister, Christian Friis Bach (Radikale), has decided to cease providing financial support to a United Nations anti-drug prog... |
| An ugly truth in the war on drugs [11.03.2013] | This week, representatives from many nations will gather at the annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna to determ... |
| Between Reality and Abstraction [31.12.2012] | At the International Conference on Alternative Development (ICAD), held 15-16 November 2012 in Lima, the Peruvian Government continued to insist on ... |
| An opportunity lost [18.11.2012] | At the International Conference on Alternative Development (ICAD), held in Lima from 14 to 16 November, the Peruvian Government supported by the UNOD... |
| UN International Guiding Principles on Alternative Development [08.11.2012] | In November 2011 I was invited by the Thai government to take part in an international delegation to develop a set of UN International Guiding Princi... |
| IDPC response to the UNODC World Drug Report 2012 [31.10.2012] | This IDPC response to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)’s flagship publication, the World Drug Report, provides an overview of the... |
| UK aid to Iran's war on drugs has led to rise in hangings, UN warns [27.10.2012] | Britain's funding of Iran's anti-drugs trafficking programmes has been called into question after a UN watchdog expressed alarm at a sharp rise in th... |
| Governing The Global Drug Wars [23.10.2012] | Since 1909 the international community has worked to eradicate the abuse of narcotics. A century on, the efforts are widely acknowledged to have fail... |
| Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico Urge UN to Review Global Drug Policy [03.10.2012] | Colombia, Mexico and Guatemala delivered a landmark declaration to the United Nations Secretary General calling on the organization to lead a debate ... |
| How International Aid for Drug Enforcement Fuels Human Rights Abuses [02.10.2012] | It is increasingly clear that there is a fundamental lack of oversight of how international aid – provided by the US, Europe and the United Nations t... |
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