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Statement at the 2013 Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) [15-03-13] Ann Fordham of the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) delivered the NGO Statement to CND Plenary under Item 8: Preparations for the high-leve...
"Impossible" to end drug trade, says Calderón [23-11-12] Ending the consumption and the trafficking of illegal drugs is “impossible”, according to Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s outgoing president. In an intervie...
The 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [09-04-09] 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 N...
Vienna Consensus on Drug Policy Cracks [07-04-09] 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 11-1...
Round Table on Alternative Development [15-03-09] The last of the four ‘round tables’ of the high-level segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs was devoted to the broad issue of Countering illicit...
Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 [15-03-09] This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 20...
Out of ideas and out of touch [09-03-09] As political leaders from around the world gather in Vienna on 11-12 March to review the last decade of international drug control, and set a framew...
Political Declaration already ridiculed [08-03-09] News about the disappointing content of the Political Declaration to be adopted at the High Level Segment of the 52nd Commission on Narcotic Drugs (...
International Drug Policy: Animated Report 2009 [05-03-09] Produced by an Oscar-winning studio for the Global Drug Policy Program of the Open Society Institute, International Drug Policy: Animated Report 2009 ...
Italy breaks ranks [19-02-09] Marco Perduca and Donatella Poretti, senators of the Radical Party have asked the Italian under-secretary on drug issues, Carlo Giovanardi, if it is t...
UN System-Wide Coherence [16-02-09] 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 [12-02-09] Prohibitionist policies based on the eradication of production and on the disruption of drug flows as well as on the criminalization of consumption ha...
Toward a Paradigm Shift [11-02-09] The Commission Gathered at its Second Meeting, in Bogota The Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy presented its conclusions at a press ...
Global Fund supports Harm Reduction [09-02-09] The Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Michel Kazatchkine, urged the president of the UN Commission on Na...
Human Rights Council and drug policy [06-02-09] The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, Professor Manfred Nowak, has called on UN member states to adopt a rights based approach to drug pol...
Dutch Remain Firm on Harm Reduction [02-02-09] “We will be aiming for no less than securing the inclusion of harm reduction in the political declaration by which member states determine internation...
Europe and US split over drugs policy at UN [30-01-09] The fight over the introduction of harm reduction in the Political Declaration of the UNGASS review has now reached the newspapers. A report by Reuter...
Stop US Delegation in Vienna [29-01-09] The US delegation in Vienna continues to block any inclusion of harm reduction in the new Political Declaration – to be approved in March 2009 at the ...
US Harm Reduction Coalition calls for change [27-01-09] Nelson Mandela, showing his support for people living with HIV / AIDS Allan Clear of the Harm Reduction Coalition made an urgen...
Harm reduction as part of the solution [23-01-09] It is still not clear what the drug policy of President Obama will be. He has not appointed his drug czar. Many high-ranking Bush Administration offic...
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