Items tagged with security
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| Mexico's president wants to change how the drug war is fought, and he may be heading for a showdown with Trump [16.05.2019] | Mexico's drug policies could be in for some sweeping changes, and with them the country's relations with the United States. President Andres Manuel L ... |
| From the Philippines to Indonesia and Afghanistan, Asia’s brutal drug policies have failed [20.02.2019] | The so-called “war on drugs” has persisted without an honest assessment by governments of its effectiveness, nor its impacts, despite UN reports show ... |
| Mexico president-elect says will look at legalizing some drugs [08.10.2018] | Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that he would consider legalizing certain drugs as part of a broader strategy to fight pove ... |
| In bloody drug war, Mexico's new leader may try negotiating [02.07.2018] | For the past 12 years, Mexico has fought violent drug gangs by deploying thousands of police, soldiers and intelligence officers to crack down on car ... |
| Key lawmaker urges Mexico to legalize marijuana [24.01.2016] | The President of Chamber of Deputies Jesus Zambrano said that Mexico should move ahead with entirely permitting marijuana usage. Mexico should follow ... |
| US Attorney General Holder rejects mass incarceration, 'one-size-fits all' security policies [21.11.2013] | Speaking at a meeting of the hemisphere's security ministers in Medellin, United States Attorney General Eric Holder touted the Obama administration' ... |
| Drugs as war economy and the peace process in Colombia: dilemmas and challenges [28.10.2013] | The fourth item on the agenda of talks “to end the conflict,” on the issue of drugs, seems to reflect rather a flat and simplistic view of the classi ... |
| Weed: Decriminalise to stabilise [26.10.2013] | Jamaica's current volatile security environment and its economic malaise are reasons enough to seriously consider joining their Latin American counte ... |
| War on drugs: There has to be a better way [24.04.2012] | The most important story of the Summit of the Americas was the Latin American demand to open the debate on an alternative to the ‘war on drugs’. The ... |
| What comes after the war on drugs [19.04.2012] | At the Summit of the Americas, Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed doubt about the war on drugs. “I think what everybody believes and agrees with ... |
| Latin America debates alternatives to current drug policy [12.04.2012] | The debate on alternatives to the war on drugs has seen a tremendous boost in recent months. Disappointed about the meager results of prohibition-led ... |
| Improving community health and safety in Canada through evidence-based policies on illegal drugs [28.03.2012] | The use of illegal drugs remains a serious threat to community health. However, despite the substantial social costs attributable to illegal drugs, a ... |
| Towards a harm reduction approach to enforcement [01.01.2009] | Harm-reduction as a policy goal implies targeting directly drug-related harms rather than drug use itself. So far it has been largely a public health ... |
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