Items tagged with UNODC
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| 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 ... |
| The 2012 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [29.04.2012] | The year 2012 marks the centenary of the international drug control system and the first instance of a state being moved to denounce formally any of ... |
| IDPC response to the UNODC 2011 World Drug Report [31.08.2011] | 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 ... |
| The Russian drug czar vs. methadone: Parcel of lies [15.04.2011] | HCLU's video advocacy team filmed the press conference of the Russian government delegation at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs this year - our movie ... |
| The 2011 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [25.03.2011] | The 54th Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) was the first for the new Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Mr. ... |
| Do we really want a Russian UN Drug Czar? [09.07.2010] | According to the Transform blog, it has been confirmed that the Russian diplomat Yuri V. Fedotov has been appointed as the new Executive Director of ... |
| A Russian Drug Czar for the world? [06.07.2010] | A top Russian diplomat, Yuri V. Fedotov, has emerged as the front-runner in the race to become the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and C ... |
| The 2009 World Drug Report [30.09.2009] | The World Drug Report 2009 was the first publication of note to come from the UNODC since the High Level Segment of the 52nd session of the Commissio ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Trees for Ecstasy [04.02.2009] | Many people believe that ecstasy is merely a synthetic drug that is manufactured solely with chemicals, so-called precursors. However, the main raw m ... |
| 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 ... |
| World anti-drugs day: mixed feelings [26.06.2008] | Thousands of bottles of alcohol are destroyed in Java to observe the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in 2007. Today, Jun ... |
| Humane drug policies [13.06.2008] | Chinese soldiers escort drug dealers to a public sentence on International Day against Drugs in 2005. Six of them were executed. At the UN High Level ... |
| 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 ... |
| War Without End [07.06.2008] | An extraordinary documentary marking a new level in broadcast journalism critiquing the international war on drugs was shown on Irish TV last on 3 Jun ... |
| Costa in Amsterdam [02.06.2008] | The head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Costa, recently visited Amsterdam on 24 April. Accompanied by some officials of the Net ... |
| 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 ... |
| The Cannabis Debate: Polak vs Costa [27.05.2008] | Antonio Costa, the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and Frederick Polak, a Dutch psychiatrist have been engaged in an ... |
| Questions for Mr. Costa [22.05.2008] | During IHRA's 19th international conference this month the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) recorded a film which poses a series of questions t ... |
| Cannabis resolutions at the 2008 CND [29.03.2008] | At the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in March 2008 in Vienna three resolutions on cannabis were tabled. They were all clearly against 'lenient p ... |
| Missing document [26.03.2008] | As we noted previously, Mr. Costa opening speech included some remarkably positive - and in the context of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs - sometim ... |
| Not so silent partners [17.03.2008] | In his speech to the NGO forum at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on Wednesday 12 March, Mr. Antonio Maria Costa, the Executive Director of th ... |
| UNGASS ten years on [01.03.2008] | Weaknesses in the United Nations drug control system have often been identified, related to the functioning of the key organs – the UN Office on Drug ... |
| Flexibility of treaty provisions [20.02.2008] | In a confidential and authoritative memorandum to the INCB, UNODC legal experts argue that most harm reduction measures are in fact acceptable under ... |
| UN: conflicting views on harm reduction [18.02.2008] | Conflicting views and policies within the UN system on harm reduction have become a major concern. Consistency in messages is crucial especially wher ... |
| Missing Targets [01.09.2007] | Despite efforts by the Afghan government and the international community to reduce poppy cultivation, opium production in Afghanistan has once again ... |
| The World Drug Report 2007 [31.07.2007] | This IDPC Briefing reviews the data in the latest report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime on the state of the global market, criticises the clai ... |
| The 2006 World Drug Report: winning the war on drugs? [01.09.2006] | This briefing paper looks at the issues raised by the publication in June of the latest World Drug Report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and C ... |
| International Drug Control: 100 Years of Success? [26.06.2006] | In its 2006 World Drug Report, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) struggles to construct success stories to convince the world that the global ... |
| A cannabis pandemic? [26.06.2006] | In its 2006 World Drug Report, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) struggles to construct success stories to convince the world that the global d ... |
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