Items tagged with UN drug control
| Item title | Description |
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| Coca chewing out of the UN convention? [21.08.2009] | On July 30th the Bolivian proposal to amend the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs by deleting the obligation to abolish the chewingof coca lea ... |
| Stepping away from the darkness [19.08.2009] | The Drug War has failed. After more than 20 years of tirelessly pushing for the same policy, the efforts have not been able to bring the expanding il ... |
| The United Nations and Drug Policy [15.08.2009] | In 1945, the United Nations was established to 'save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.' Today, the language of war has been adopted for ... |
| Drug policy reform in practice [14.08.2009] | The academic journal Nueva Sociedad recently released an issue to promote the debate in Latin America on drug policy reform. TNI contributed with the ... |
| Amendment against anti-coca chewing provisions [21.07.2009] | In March 2009, Evo Morales sent his formal request to the Secretary General Bang Ki Moon to delete articles 49(c) and 49(e) of the 1961 UN Single Con ... |
| Call to Action: Support Global Drug Policy Reform [25.06.2009] | Call to Action World Drug Day, 26 June 2009 As the United Nations launches the 2009 World Drug Report this week, more than 40 international groups an ... |
| Coca Myths [01.06.2009] | The coca leaf has been used and misused for many ends, each of them suiting different interests and agendas. Even its very name has been appropriated ... |
| INCB elections [20.05.2009] | On Monday the 18th, at the UN-ECOSOC session in New York, elections took place for six members of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB). Th ... |
| Horse trading at the UN [19.05.2009] | NGOs in the drug policy field have criticised the outcome of the recent elections to the United Nation’s International Narcotic Control Board (INCB) ... |
| Proposal of amendments by Bolivia to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [15.05.2009] | The Secretary-General has received a note verbale dated 12 March 2009 from the Permanent Mission of Bolivia to the United Nations, attached to which ... |
| The 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [09.04.2009] | The 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs and its High Level Segment (HLS) marked the end of the 2-year process of the 10-year review of the 1998 United ... |
| Vienna Consensus on Drug Policy Cracks [07.04.2009] | A clear divide in drug control approaches became apparent at the end of the High Level Segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on March 11- ... |
| Why is the outcome of the United Nations drug policy review so weak and inconclusive? [31.03.2009] | Political representatives from over 130 countries gathered at a United Nations high level meeting in Vienna on March 11-12, 2009, to conclude a 2-yea ... |
| Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 [15.03.2009] | This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 2 ... |
| Let Me Chew My Coca Leaves [14.03.2009] | In 1961, the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs placed the coca leaf in the same category with cocaine — thus promoting the false not ... |
| Letter to the UN Secretary General [12.03.2009] | On March 12, 2009, the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, sent a letter sent a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, re ... |
| Bolivia calls on Obama to back coca campaign [11.03.2009] | President Barack Obama should recognize traditional uses of the coca leaf because not all production becomes cocaine, Bolivian President Evo Morales ... |
| Speech Morales at the CND [11.03.2009] | The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) filmed the speech of the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, at the high level UN meeting in Vienna on Marc ... |
| Political Declaration already ridiculed [08.03.2009] | News about the disappointing content of the Political Declaration to be adopted at the High Level Segment of the 52nd Commission on Narcotic Drugs (C ... |
| International Drug Policy: Animated Report 2009 [05.03.2009] | Produced by an Oscar-winning studio for the Global Drug Policy Program of the Open Society Institute, International Drug Policy: Animated Report 2009 ... |
| UN System-Wide Coherence [16.02.2009] | The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, wrote a letter to the delegates negotiating the Political Declaration for the 52nd session of the UN ... |
| Toward a Paradigm Shift [12.02.2009] | Prohibitionist policies based on the eradication of production and on the disruption of drug flows as well as on the criminalization of consumption h ... |
| Toward a Paradigm Shift [11.02.2009] | The Commission Gathered at its Second Meeting, in Bogota The Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy presented its conclusions at a press co ... |
| International Support for Harm Reduction [20.01.2009] | A useful overview of UN endorsement of harm reduction measures; the legality of harm reduction services under the Drug Conventions; the obligation in ... |
| UNGASS review reaches critical stage [03.11.2008] | Transnational Institute, November 2008 The review of the objectives and action plans agreed at the 1998 UNGASS on Drugs has reached a critical stage. ... |
| IDPC Response to the UNODC 2008 World Drug Report [31.08.2008] | In this response to the UNODC's World Drug Report 2008, the IDPC continues to support the concept of the Office acting in a capacity as a 'centre of ... |
| Beyond 2008: Final Declaration and Resolutions [23.07.2008] | The Beyond 2008 NGO Forum was held in Vienna, Austria from July 7-9, 2008. It was the final step in the global consultation of NGOs involved in respon ... |
| Beyond 2008 video [23.07.2008] | Wednesday, 23 July 2008 From 7-9 July, 2008, 300 delegates met in Vienna for the Beyond 2008 NGO Forum meant to provide civil society input for the 1 ... |
| Beyond 2008 – a truly remarkable event [12.07.2008] | Earlier this week, 7-9 July, 300 delegates met in Vienna for the Beyond 2008 NGO Forum meant to provide civil society input for the 10-year UNGASS re ... |
| The current state of drug policy debate [09.06.2008] | Martin Jelsma, from the Transnational Institute, prepared an analysis for the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, explaining the drug p ... |
| Refreshing Costa's memory [08.06.2008] | Today, June 8, it is 10 years ago that the world leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the ... |
| INCB out of step with the United Nations [03.06.2008] | The United Nations should overhaul the operations of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the quasi judicial body that monitors states’ ... |
| Rewriting history [01.06.2008] | The world today is not any closer to achieving the ten-year targets set by the 1998 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs. These goal ... |
| Canada drug law contributes to the harm it seeks to prevent [28.05.2008] | In a surprise ruling yesterday, the British Colombia Supreme Court supported Vancouver's experimental supervised injection clinic Insite - North Amer ... |
| Harm Reduction 2008 [12.05.2008] | Monday, 12 May 2008 The International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harms is taking place in Barcelona, May 11-15. UN Special Rapporteu ... |
| Latin America needs a new drug policy approach [02.05.2008] | Friday, 2 May 2008 TNI’s Martin Jelsma participated in the inaugural meeting in Rio de Janeiro of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democrac ... |
| The Life of a Human Rights Resolution [22.04.2008] | At the March 2008 Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), Uruguay tabled a resolution 'Ensuring the proper integration of the United Nations human rights ... |
| The 2008 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [13.04.2008] | The 51st Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) was designated as the point at which the international community would debate the progress made in the 10 ... |
| Coca Leaf: The Heritage of the Andes [08.04.2008] | A film by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) |
| Missing document found [01.04.2008] | Our worries about a possible censorship of Mr. Costa's Conference Room Paper "Making drug control 'fit for purpose': Building on the UNGASS decade" a ... |
| Coca Leaf Defended by Growers, Scientists… and Taxi Drivers [24.03.2008] | "They will have to kill us to make us stop planting coca," Bolivian coca grower Luis Mamani told IPS in response to a call from the International Nar ... |
| Commenting Mr. Costa's opening remarks [21.03.2008] | The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) made some interesting video news items on the Commission on Narcotic Drugs. In this one leading civils soc ... |
| Statements at 2008 CND [17.03.2008] | Several government and UN officials as well as civil society organisations made interesting statements at the 51st session of the Commission on Narco ... |
| Fighting for the Right to Chew Coca [17.03.2008] | The Bolivian delegation was the first to issue what it called an "energetic protest" against the INCB's recommendations during the agency's annual me ... |
| Human rights and drug control [16.03.2008] | One of the most debated issues at the 2008 Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) was a resolution entitled “Proper integration of the United Nations huma ... |
| Long life to coca leaf! [13.03.2008] | With a “Causachun coca! (quechua), viva la coca. Long life to coca leaf!” the vice -minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia ended his intervention on ... |
| Intervention of Bolivia at the 2008 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [12.03.2008] | With a "Causachun coca! (quechua), viva la coca. Long life to coca leaf!" the vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia Hugo Fernandez ended his in ... |
| Bolivia to defend coca leaf at UN [10.03.2008] | Bolivian officials at a conference on illegal drugs in Vienna are planning to ask the UN to remove the coca plant from its list of dangerous drugs. T ... |
| Blessing in disguise? [09.03.2008] | Yesterday, President Evo Morales of Bolivia sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon rejecting the recommendations of the International Narc ... |
| Letter Evo Morales to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon [08.03.2008] | In response to the 2007 annual report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), which called on countries to 'abolish or prohibit coca lea ... |
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