Items tagged with UN drug control
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| UN attempt to decriminalise drugs foiled [19.10.2015] | A paper from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has been withdrawn after pressure from at least one country.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 ... |
| IDPC response to the 2014 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board [07.10.2015] | The advent of regulated cannabis markets in Uruguay and some US states over the past few years has constituted a profound shock to the international ... |
| Oregon marijuana legalization challenges US drug policy [02.10.2015] | Oregon joined Colorado and Washington in implementing a commercial cannabis market. Alaska, which also legalized marijuana through a ballot initiativ ... |
| Nick Clegg launches campaign to persuade EU leaders to back reform of drug laws [01.10.2015] | Nick Clegg is launching a campaign to persuade EU leaders to back global reform of drugs laws, warning that the current punitive approach has failed ... |
| World drug problem violates human rights in five key areas, says UN official [27.09.2015] | The global drug problem violates human rights in five key areas – the right to health, the rights relating to criminal justice and discrimination, th ... |
| IDPC recommendations for the "ZERO DRAFT" of the UNGASS outcome document [22.07.2015] | Preparations are gathering pace for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs, to be held on the 19th to 21st April 2016 ... |
| International Law and Drug Policy Reform [03.07.2015] | Drug policy reform is currently higher on the international agenda than it has been in recent memory. With a United Nations General Assembly Special ... |
| 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 ... |
| Minister Golding addresses UN Debate on international drug policy [07.05.2015] | Senator Mark Golding, minister of justice, participated in a plenary session with several UN member states at the United Nations in a High Level Them ... |
| 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 ... |
| The wars don’t work [01.05.2015] | In the West few politicians have been ready to admit the drug war’s failure—even as they quietly moderate their policy. They need to be honest with t ... |
| Improving global drug policy: Comparative perspectives and UNGASS 2016 [28.04.2015] | As the world prepares for the 2016 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 2016), an increasing numb ... |
| 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 ... |
| 2016: The UN's year to take on drugs [26.04.2015] | Global disagreement over drug policies provides an important opportunity to reconsider the effectiveness of existing counternarcotics policies, addre ... |
| 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 ... |
| Video report of the UN drug debate [08.04.2015] | 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 ... |
| Dr. Lochan Naidoo - A frank conversation about drugs [29.03.2015] | The President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Dr Lochan Naidoo, became a member of International Doctors for Healthier Drug Poli ... |
| Jamaica to lead charge to change int'l treaties on marijuana [17.03.2015] | Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Anthony Hylton, says Jamaica intends to lead a charge in the United Nations to effect changes to the i ... |
| Another UN agency savages the drug war [16.03.2015] | The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN agency charged with developing strategies to reduce global poverty, has strongly criticised c ... |
| CND 2015 Side Event: E-Book of Authorities [11.03.2015] | The “E-Book of Authorities” is a civil society-led project to catalogue agreed UN statements and language on a selection of key topics. It aims to sh ... |
| Drug policy innovations in the Americas [11.03.2015] | In recent years, the Americas have been at the forefront of calls for a meaningful review of traditional approaches to drug control based on tough la ... |
| The war on ketamine [08.03.2015] | In a dispute that pits the war on drugs against global health needs — and one UN agency against another — a pair of Canadian researchers is spearhead ... |
| The ketamine controversy, continued [06.03.2015] | The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna will decide next week between two opposite proposals by China and the WHO about international contro ... |
| UN special envoy: ‘The current international control system for drugs has failed’ [03.03.2015] | Marijuana will become an unavoidable policy issue for health watchdogs in coming years. Growing scientific evidence about the medical benefits and a ... |
| UN drugs body warns US states and Uruguay over cannabis legalisation [03.03.2015] | The United Nations has renewed its warnings to Uruguay and the US states of Colorado and Washington that their cannabis legalisation policies fail to ... |
| On the death penalty for drugs [02.03.2015] | The Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), released today, calls upon States that ‘continue to impose the death penalty f ... |
| Why ‘Special K’ is good medicine [02.03.2015] | In the global world of illicit drug policies, the granddaddy of them all is the United States. But as the U.S. starts to, perhaps, question the effec ... |
| Ketamine control plan condemned as potential disaster for world's rural poor [27.02.2015] | A proposal that is about to come before the UN to restrict global access to ketamine, a drug abused in rich countries, would deprive millions of wome ... |
| Despite U.N. treaties, war against drugs a losing battle [25.02.2015] | As the call for the decriminalisation of drugs steadily picks up steam worldwide, a new study by the London-based charity Health Poverty Action concl ... |
| Indonesia's executions: Drugs diplomacy in a diplomatic crisis? [25.02.2015] | All diplomatic efforts earlier this month to save Brazilian and Dutch citizens from execution in Indonesia failed. Both were executed by firing squad ... |
| The UK needs common sense about ketamine [17.02.2015] | Ketamine is a unique anaesthetic and analgesic that has unfortunately become a popular recreational drug. In an attempt to reduce recreational use, a ... |
| The United Nations General Assembly Special Session on drugs in 2016 [16.02.2015] | In April 2016, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to evaluate drug policy in a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGAS ... |
| CND decision to schedule ketamine would undermine WHO treaty mandate [16.02.2015] | 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 esse ... |
| Fact Sheet on the Proposal to Discuss International Scheduling of Ketamine at the 58th CND [14.02.2015] | Ketamine is an essential medicine used for anaesthesia. It is the only available anaesthetic for essential surgery in most rural areas of developing ... |
| The road to the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs in 2016 [27.01.2015] | UN forums in recent years have witnessed more and more governments expressing their frustrations with the failing global war on drugs. This failure g ... |
| Time for a Wake-up Call [26.12.2014] | The chemically-based frame of reference adopted by the UN Single Convention is mistaken in the culturally loaded and falsely “scientific” manner in w ... |
| The International Drug Control Regime and Access to Controlled Medicines [25.12.2014] | The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that some 5.5 billion people around the globe inhabit countries with low to non-existent access to cont ... |
| The 'Fifth Stage' of Drug Control [30.11.2014] | Writing in 1996, Norbert Gilmore noted that ‘little has been written about drug use and human rights. Human rights are rarely mentioned expressly in ... |
| Into the breach: Drugs, control, and violating bad laws in good ways [27.11.2014] | An October statement on drug control from the US State Department has prompted much comment and speculation at home and abroad. Delivered by Ambassad ... |
| Fatal attraction: Brownfield's flexibility doctrine and global drug policy reform [18.11.2014] | State-level cannabis reforms, which gathered steam this month, have exposed the inability of the United States to abide by the terms of the legal bed ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nick Clegg and Juan Manuel Santos to lead global initiative on drugs reform [08.11.2014] | Nick Clegg wants the UK to take a lead role in forging an alliance between European and Latin American countries aiming to reform global drugs laws f ... |
| Pushing treaty limits? [19.10.2014] | Suppose the United States government helps to negotiate, and subsequently champions, certain framework treaties – ones justly viewed as imposing sign ... |
| How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is making the world a better place [16.10.2014] | No pressure, Colorado and Washington, but the world is scrutinizing your every move. That was the take-home message of an event today at the Brooking ... |
| Improving global drug policy: Comparative perspectives on counternarcotics regimes and UNGASS 2016 [15.10.2014] | The approaching 2016 UNGASS and the meetings that will follow provide an important opportunity to reexamine the existing regime and improve global dr ... |
| Marijuana legalization is an opportunity to modernize international drug treaties [14.10.2014] | Two U.S. states have legalized recreational marijuana, and more may follow; the Obama administration has conditionally accepted these experiments. Su ... |
| State Department official calls for 'flexibility' on drug control treaties [13.10.2014] | Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield called for "flexible" interpretations of international drug control treaties at the United Nations in ... |
| US signals shift in international drug policy [12.10.2014] | In a press conference at the United Nations in New York on October 9, US official William Brownfield laid the groundwork for a new US approach to int ... |
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