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Taking stock: A decade of drug policy

Mon, 22 Oct 2018 08:47:25 +0000

‘Taking stock: A decade of drug policy’ evaluates the impacts of drug policies implemented across the world over the past decade, using data from the United Nations (UN), complemented with peer-revie ...

On the road towards the 2019 Ministerial Segment

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 13:06:53 +0000

UN member states have agreed to hold a Ministerial Segment immediately prior to the 62nd Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) ‘to take stock of the implementation of the commitments made ...

“The drug market is thriving” while the Commission on Narcotic Drugs limps along

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 10:41:07 +0000

“The drug market is thriving” is one of the key messages in UNODC’s 2017 World Drug Report. This is an important admission from the UN’s lead agency for drugs given that it is now less than nine mont ...

What comes next?

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:01:02 +0000

The 2016 UNGASS on drugs was hailed as an opportunity ‘to conduct a wide-ranging and open debate that considers all options’. Although the UNGASS process had some challenges, it was nonetheless a cri ...

TNI at CND 2016: reports from Vienna

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 08:59:43 +0000

The Transnational Institute (TNI) attended the 59th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna from the 14-22nd March. The CND negotiated the outcome document to be approved at the 2016 ...

The UNGASS outcome document: Diplomacy or denialism?

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 10:03:00 +0000

Drug policy expertise and impacted communities from around the world express serious concerns about the preparations and already-drafted outcomes for the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) ...

The 2015 Commission on Narcotic Drugs

Tue, 07 Jul 2015 14:37:22 +0000

The international drug control regime is facing the most profound challenge of its existence. Member states have for some time been experimenting with new responses to the ‘world drug problem’; howev ...

Video report of the UN drug debate

Wed, 08 Apr 2015 11:15:16 +0000

This March, our video advocacy team attended the 58th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the largest drug policy gathering in the world, to find out how governments and NGOs feel about the ...

Conditioning Alternative Development to previous eradication should be abandoned

Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:40:21 +0000

Conditioning Alternative Development (AD) participation to previous eradication should be abandoned as a policy, since it has proved to be counterproductive. As long as the amount of hectares eradica ...

TNI calls for a wide-ranging and open debate that considers all options at UNGASS 2016

Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:34:13 +0000

Just over one year away from the 2016 UNGASS, denying the reality that the drug policy landscape has fundamentally changed and that tensions with the UN drug conventions are occuring, is no longer a ...

WMA warns against making essential anaesthetic a controlled drug

Fri, 06 Mar 2015 10:03:42 +0000

The World Medical Association is urging its 111 member associations to lobby their governments to oppose scheduling the anaesthetic agent Ketamine as a controlled drug. The United Nations Commission ...

The ketamine controversy, continued

Fri, 06 Mar 2015 09:38:46 +0000

The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna will decide next week between two opposite proposals by China and the WHO about international control of ketamine, an essential anaesthetic in human a ...

Indonesia's executions: Drugs diplomacy in a diplomatic crisis?

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:24:40 +0000

All diplomatic efforts earlier this month to save Brazilian and Dutch citizens from execution in Indonesia failed. Both were executed by firing squad. The harrowing final hours of Marco Archer Cardos ...

CND decision to schedule ketamine would undermine WHO treaty mandate

Mon, 16 Feb 2015 12:39:24 +0000

The 58th Session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in March 2015 has been asked to consider a Chinese proposal to place ketamine – an essential medicine used for anaesthesia – in Schedule ...

Fact Sheet on the Proposal to Discuss International Scheduling of Ketamine at the 58th CND

Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:08:35 +0000

Ketamine is an essential medicine used for anaesthesia. It is the only available anaesthetic for essential surgery in most rural areas of developing countries, home to more than 2 billion of the worl ...

UN High-Level Segment on Drugs, March 2014

Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:53:26 +0000

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). The purpose of this meeting is to review the progr ...

UNODC’s shifting position on drug policy: Progress and challenges

Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:34:33 +0000

In March 2014, country delegations will gather at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to review progress and challenges in international drug control since the agreement of a Politi ...

Are the three drug conventions still the cornerstone of the world drug control system?

Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:49:28 +0000

UN member states are currently in the process of hammering out a ‘Joint Ministerial Statement’ for the upcoming High Level Review of the world drug response – at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND ...

UNODC Executive Director releases "contributions" ahead of CND High-Level Segment on drugs

Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:12:16 +0000

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, has released his "contributions" to the debate. This ...

Leaked paper reveals UN split over war on drugs

Sun, 01 Dec 2013 11:41:25 +0000

Major divisions over the global "war on drugs" have been revealed in a leaked draft of a UN document setting out the organisation's long-term strategy. The draft, written in September shows there are ...