Items tagged with peru
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| Drug Decriminalisation Across the World [31.12.2030] | The criminalisation of people who use drugs compounds drug-related challenges and worsens health and welfare outcomes. Across the world, there is a g ... |
| Booming cocaine production suggests the war on drugs has failed [13.10.2022] | There is no shortage of people willing to plant and harvest coca; and there is no shortage of cocaine. According to the United Nations Office on Drug ... |
| Colombia, largest cocaine supplier to U.S., considers decriminalizing [20.08.2022] | Colombia is the largest producer of cocaine in the world, the source of more than 90 percent of the drug seized in the United States. It’s home to th ... |
| Prohibited Plants [18.08.2022] | Across the world, the state of environmental stress is unprecedented. As scholarship and activism on ‘environmental justice’ points out, poorer and m ... |
| Is the world running out of Ayahausca? [18.01.2021] | After years of increasing numbers of retreat centers and ayahuasca processing facilities opened, reports are starting to surface disclosing the appar ... |
| Coca leaf: Myths and Reality [16.06.2020] | Many myths surround coca. Every day press accounts around the world use the word coca in their headlines, when they refer in fact to cocaine. TNI's D ... |
| The coronavirus has gutted the price of coca. It could reshape the cocaine trade [09.06.2020] | As a farmer eking out a living in Peru’s central jungle, Rubén Leiva grew one cash crop that seemed immune from global cycles of booms and busts. But ... |
| Peru’s war on drugs is an abject failure – here’s what it can learn from Bolivia [30.05.2020] | When Peruvian government forces began eradicating coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, without warning in a remote corner of Peru’s principal coc ... |
| Peruvian coca farmers to Paris pushers, coronavirus upends global narcotics trade [22.04.2020] | The coronavirus outbreak has upended industries across the globe. The international narcotics trade has not been spared. From the cartel badlands alo ... |
| Peru [31.12.2019] | Overview of drug laws and legislative trends in Peru Trend In Peru, the traditional use of the coca leaf is an ancestral practice which has never bee ... |
| Peruvian farmers abandoning coffee plantations for coca fields [07.03.2019] | A drop in coffee prices is forcing hundreds of Peruvian farmers to seek work in coca plantations-a sign that the country, like its neighbor Colombia, ... |
| Medicinal cannabis policies and practices around the world [24.04.2018] | Although cannabis remains a prohibited substance worldwide, in recent decades a series of political, legislative and judicial processes in various pa ... |
| People in Latin America are starting to turn against outlawing marijuana [27.02.2017] | Sentiments in Latin America in favor of outlawing marijuana appear to be undergoing shifts in some countries, according to a study published the Inte ... |
| Peru's Government proposes to legalise medical marijuana [09.02.2017] | Peru's government says it will present to the opposition-dominated legislature a plan to legalise the medical use of marijuana “for the treatment of ... |
| The Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP) [27.10.2016] | The voices of affected communities involved in the cultivation of coca leaf, opium poppy and cannabis plants are lacking in the global debate on drug ... |
| Cannabis in Latin America and the Caribbean [15.09.2016] | Cannabis (or marihuana) is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive substances in the world. According to the United Nations World Drug Report, 1 ... |
| Is the global cocaine trade in decline? [23.06.2016] | The latest United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2016 World Drug Report presents a long-term analysis of cocaine production, seizures and ... |
| Latin America’s crackdown on drugs defies its progressive rhetoric [12.11.2015] | “We were having dinner—my daughter, grandchild, and me,” says Ramona, a 67-year-old Mexican woman who is serving a sentence of four-and-a-half years ... |
| People deprived of their liberty for drug offenses: The social costs of drug policy [02.11.2015] | The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho, CEDD) released a series of new studies showing that despite the ... |
| In Search of Rights [09.07.2014] | The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho, CEDD) has published a new study that assesses state responses t ... |
| Uruguay's neighbors now considering legalization of pot [24.12.2013] | Argentina has given the first sign that Uruguay’s groundbreaking cannabis reform just may have started a domino effect across Latin America. Followin ... |
| Open letter to Ministers Responsible for Public Security in the Americas [25.11.2013] | We, the undersigned human rights organizations, address you on this Fourth Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Public Security (MISPA) to follow up ... |
| 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 ... |
| Peru’s Ex-Drug Czar on Where the Government is Going Wrong [16.07.2012] | Peru is fighting on two fronts against an expanding cocaine trade and resurgent Shining Path guerrillas. The country's former top anti-drug official ... |
| Latin America's fatal prison problem [14.05.2012] | Prison riots in Venezuela. Jailbreaks in Mexico. Prison fires in Honduras. Latin America is displaying violent cases of the ails of its prison system ... |
| Sex and drugs and private cells [28.03.2012] | A deadly riot in Mexico and an inferno in Honduras have turned the searchlight on conditions in Latin America's overcrowded and anarchic prisons. Of ... |
| Peru’s New Drug Chief: Country “Let Down Its Guard” in Eradication [18.01.2012] | The outspoken Ricardo Soberon was head of Devida for about five months and was in favor of a stronger intervention in drug policies by his institutio ... |
| Back to Business as Usual as Peru Loses Progressive Drug Czar [15.01.2012] | Despite promising signs that Peru’s new president was ready to take a fresh approach to drug policy, focused on attacking traffickers and not coca fa ... |
| Peru replaces drug czar who de-emphasized coca plant eradication, saying it hurt poor growers [10.01.2012] | Peru’s government on Tuesday replaced its drug czar, whose refusal to endorse an all-out coca crop eradication effort put him at odds with the Cabine ... |
| Drug Policy in the Andes [15.12.2011] | Fifty years after signing the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and 40 years after the U.S. government declared a "war on drugs," ma ... |
| Peru's new anti-drug czar in delicate dance with U.S. [18.10.2011] | Peru's leftist government has scored some early victories in its bid to overhaul anti-drugs policy in the world's top coca grower while keeping the U ... |
| Cocaine's becoming king in Peru [24.09.2011] | For years, Peru had a simple policy to fight cocaine: destroy the coca plants that were the key ingredient in the drug. It did not go so well. That h ... |
| The Case of Peru [08.12.2010] | In Peru, the law on drugs does not punish drug use or drug possession for personal use by imprisonment. Nonetheless, as the Peru chapter of the study ... |
| Drug Laws and Prisons in Peru [07.12.2010] | Peru is a major world producer of coca leaf and its derivatives. Since the year 2000, successive Peruvian administrations have followed a drug policy ... |
| Prison Inc.? An Illusionary Response [05.10.2010] | In the last few years, many Latin American countries face a dilemma – imported from Western countries – of conceding some if not all of its penitenti ... |
| 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 ... |
| Law on Coca Flour [24.03.2009] | In Peru, the commercialization of coca leaf powder or coca flour has seen a huge increase in popularity in the market for healthy food, with a fairly ... |
| 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 ... |
| INCB: controversial statements on coca leaf [05.03.2008] | Read here the full text of the controversial statements on coca leaf included in this year's Annual Report of the INCB. Some highlights: > "The Board ... |
| Response to INCB's Annual Report 2007 [02.03.2008] | The 2007 INCB Annual Report shows some signs of a more balanced approach by the INCB to the policy dilemmas around proportionality of sentences and h ... |
| Broken promises and coca eradication in Peru [01.03.2005] | The forced crop eradication policy implemented by the Peruvian government over the past 25 years has failed. The official strategy has exacerbated so ... |
| Coca or death? [01.04.2004] | Following Bolivia's 2002 parliamentary elections, the success of the political party headed by cocalero leader Evo Morales, rekindled debate regardin ... |
| Alternative Development and Drug Control [08.01.2002] | What can Alternative Development interventions realistically hope to achieve, given the growing demand for illicit drugs and the continuing prevalenc ... |
| Full scope on the War on Drugs [30.04.1998] | An elderly cleaning lady enters the huge empty UN aula in New York with her polishing cart, to get the venue spic-and-span for an important upcoming ... |
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