Items tagged with UN drug control
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| 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 ... |
| Taking Control: Pathways to Drug Policies that Work [09.09.2014] | The upcoming United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) in 2016 is an unprecedented opportunity to review and re-direct nation ... |
| Preparing for the 2016 UNGASS on drugs [30.07.2014] | The United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs in 2016 is intended to provide states with the opportunity to openly debate the ... |
| The Guardian view on overdue overhauling of US and global drug laws [27.07.2014] | The war on drugs has been a losing fight for 40 years. The response to unending failure has always been to demand more law enforcement and more priso ... |
| La légalisation du cannabis est inévitable selon un expert en politique des drogues [24.07.2014] | La légalisation du cannabis fait peu à peu son chemin dans le monde, suscitant un débat politique qui dure depuis l'an dernier au Maroc. Après que l’ ... |
| Reforming the global drug-control system: The stakes for Washington [27.06.2014] | The extent to which the ongoing drug-control reforms across the Americas are pushing the boundaries of the global legal framework laid down in three ... |
| Scheduling in the international drug control system [13.06.2014] | While often viewed as an obscure technical issue, the problem of scheduling lies at the core of the functioning of the international drug control sys ... |
| 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 ... |
| Internationaal recht en cannabis [14.05.2014] | Voor het rondetafelgesprek over het rapport: ‘Internationaal recht en cannabis’ op 15 mei 2014 voor de Vaste Commissie voor Veiligheid en Justitie in ... |
| Ending the Drug Wars [06.05.2014] | The Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy was convened to produce the most thorough independent economic analysis of the current international ... |
| Uruguay not a ‘pirate’ [17.04.2014] | The Uruguayan government has made a controversial move to regulate the production and sale of cannabis, believing that this will help in the fight ag ... |
| New report: UN stuck in denial over cannabis regulation [10.03.2014] | The current trend towards legal regulation of the cannabis market has become irreversible and requires an urgent dialogue by UN member states on the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Time for UN to open up dialogue on drug policy reform and end counter-productive blame-game [03.03.2014] | As the UN International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) launches its annual report on Tuesday, 4 March, amidst an unprecedented crisis in the internat ... |
| 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 ... |
| Marijuana on the move [26.01.2014] | Some 20 years ago, a Spanish official in favor of lifting the ban on drugs such as marijuana mentioned at a UN meeting that there "might be a more hu ... |
| Are the three drug conventions still the cornerstone of the world drug control system? [20.01.2014] | 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 r ... |
| 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 ... |
| 'Stop lying': Uruguay president chides UN official over marijuana law [14.12.2013] | Uruguay’s president has accused the head of the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Raymond Yans, of lying and double standards, after ... |
| Uruguay's Prez rips into UN official over marijuana law: 'Stop lying' [12.12.2013] | Uruguay's President Mujica shot back at the president of the International Narcotics Control Board, a U.N. agency, for saying that his administration ... |
| Heroic Uruguay deserves a Nobel peace prize for legalising cannabis [11.12.2013] | The response of the UN's International Narcotics Control Board to Uruguay's new drug regime has been to incant futile bromides. According to its chie ... |
| 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 ... |
| Leaked paper reveals UN split over war on drugs [30.11.2013] | 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 strateg ... |
| Kofi Annan: Stop 'war on drugs' [05.11.2013] | Each year, hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from preventable drug-related disease and violence. Millions of users are arrested an ... |
| The US incapacity to enforce federal drug laws - and the global consequences [31.10.2013] | The US drug policy is changing, pitting states against federal law. This essay explores this inner friction of contradictory drug legislation, and wh ... |
| Drug Policies and Women's Rights on UN Agenda [16.10.2013] | At the 56th Session of the UN Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) this week in Geneva, the UN gender expert ... |
| CND Intersessional Meeting [15.10.2013] | The United Nations (UN) member states are currently working on a ‘Joint Ministerial Statement’ to review progress and challenges in international dru ... |
| Coca leaf: A Political Dilemma [07.10.2013] | For fifty years the World’s attitude to and treatment of the coca leaf and coca farmers has been controlled by the UN Drugs Conventions beginning wit ... |
| Latin American leaders bring drug policy debate to the United Nations [29.09.2013] | At the annual UN General Assembly meeting held in New York, presidents from around the world have the chance to state their views on the key internat ... |
| CND Intersessional Meeting [25.09.2013] | The intersessional meeting was intended as the first day of formal negotiations on the draft of the Joint Ministerial Statement (JMS) for the 2014 Hi ... |
| Colombian president tells U.N. the drug war has not been won [24.09.2013] | The "war on drugs" has not been won, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos told the United Nations, exhorting the world body to add teeth to the Spe ... |
| The drug policy reform agenda in the Americas (Version 2) [15.08.2013] | At the root of the drug policy debate in Latin America is growing recognition that present policies have failed to achieve the desired objectives, th ... |
| IDPC response to the 2012 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board [31.07.2013] | Despite its unprecedented nature within the history of the international drug control regime, and regardless of warnings to the contrary, the Plurina ... |
| The 2013 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [31.05.2013] | Reflections upon this year’s CND are mixed. On the one hand, some states went further than ever before in openly challenging the current regime on th ... |
| The drug policy reform agenda in the Americas [30.04.2013] | Latin America has emerged at the vanguard of efforts to promote debate on drug policy reform. For decades, Latin American governments largely followe ... |
| Drug policy must return to focus on public health, SPP panelists say [11.04.2013] | Global drug policy must move away from stigmatizing and criminalizing users and focus on the public health issues at stake, panelists concluded at th ... |
| 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 ... |
| De wankele 'Weense consensus' over drugsbeleid [31.03.2013] | ??Nederland is met zijn drugsbeleid in de achterhoede terecht gekomen, zo stelt Martin Jelsma. Zo zijn Uruguay en de Amerikaanse staten Washington en ... |
| Drug policy reform is breaking through at the international level [24.03.2013] | Change is in the air ... But the pace could be quickened a bit. While the international policymaking body on drugs has long been stuck in neutral, th ... |
| 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 ... |
| Is the INCB dangerous to your health? [04.03.2013] | In what has become a chilling annual exercise, the UN's drug watchdog the International Narcotics Control Board released its annual report today. The ... |
| The great experiment [23.02.2013] | A whiff of change is in the air regarding drug control policy. Officials in two American states, Colorado and Washington, are pondering how to implem ... |
| Coca and Snus: Sweden's self-defeating hypocrisy on drugs [15.01.2013] | Tradition is disposable. Evidence is marginal. Economic arguments are not important. This, in a nutshell, is what Sweden said to the UN to oppose tra ... |
| Major victory for President Morales: UN accepts “coca leaf chewing” in Bolivia [14.01.2013] | Bolivia will again belong to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs after its bid to rejoin with a reservation that it does not accept the trea ... |
| Bolivians demand the right to chew coca leaves [13.01.2013] | A major international row with wide-ranging implications for global drugs policy has erupted over the right of Bolivia's indigenous Indian tribes to ... |
| The condemned coca leaf [12.01.2013] | Last week, the United Nations voted on an appeal by Bolivia to amend the international treaty that prohibits the chewing of coca leaf. Bolivia won a ... |
| Schijnheilig bezwaar van Nederland tegen het kauwen van coca bladeren [11.01.2013] | De Nederlandse regering heeft bij de Verenigde Naties bezwaar aangetekend tegen de herintreding van Bolivia in het Enkelvoudig Verdrag inzake verdove ... |
| Bolivia wins a rightful victory on the coca leaf [11.01.2013] | Today the Plurinational State of Bolivia can celebrate a rightful victory, as the country can become formally a party again to the 1961 Single Conven ... |
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