Items tagged with burma
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| A massive Asian drug bust has stirred a fentanyl mystery [10.06.2020] | As the UNODC put it, this was “one of the largest and most successful counternarcotics operations” in Asia’s history. Myanmar’s army and police, whic ... |
| Is Southeast Asia's drug trade too big to control? [19.05.2020] | Police in Myanmar this week announced the largest synthetic drug seizure on record in Southeast Asia. Between February and April, security forces sei ... |
| Growers' voices at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs [25.11.2019] | From 16 to 18 October 2019, representatives of member states, intergovernmental organisations, and civil society attended the 6th Intersessional Meet ... |
| UN report on Myanmar opium crop criticized [06.03.2019] | The recently-released "Myanmar Opium Survey 2018" by the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) distorts reality, accuses ethnic rebels wh ... |
| A Distortion of Reality [05.03.2019] | After decades of fighting between the central government and various ethnic armed organisations in Myanmar, the links between drugs and conflict have ... |
| 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 ... |
| Methamphetamine use in Myanmar, Thailand, and Southern China: assessing practices, reducing harms [15.02.2019] | Over the past decade, methamphetamine use has grown more popular in Myanmar, Thailand and Southern China. Based on in-depth interviews conducted with ... |
| Time for a truce in Asia’s war on drugs [03.11.2018] | Global attitudes on narcotic drugs are changing, but the shift has come too late for those caught up in Asia’s past decade of misguided and often let ... |
| Drug reform gets a push [21.04.2018] | New plans for treatment of drug addicts and abusers are a welcome step on the way to badly needed drug reform. The steps announced last week by the c ... |
| Guiding Drug Law Reform in Myanmar [28.11.2017] | A draft bill amending Myanmar 1993 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law was published in newspapers in March 2017 for public consultation. ... |
| The push to decriminalise drug use in Myanmar [31.05.2017] | The amendments provide for police to be able to send drug users to receive treatment at medical facilities before being sent to rehabilitation centre ... |
| Advocacy group calls for reform of Burma’s drug laws and policies [17.02.2017] | The Drug Policy Advocacy Group (DPAG) has called for a reform of Burma’s drug laws, demanding new policies focusing on the rehabilitation of drug use ... |
| Asia is still just saying no to drugs [14.01.2017] | Harsh penalties for drug offences are common across Asia. The sorts of alternatives now favoured in the West, such as diverting addicts to effective ... |
| 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 ... |
| Found in the dark [20.10.2016] | Some 400 people were charged with being “found in the dark” in Yangon, Myanmar in the first five months of 2015 alone. The charge carries a prison te ... |
| 'Found in the Dark' [14.09.2016] | To address its serious drug use problems, Myanmar should change its drug policy towards a harm reduction approach. Instead of a repressive approach, ... |
| Will Myanmar’s economy ever kick its opium habit? [26.08.2016] | A recent report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates Myanmar had 55,000 hectares of poppies under cultivation in 2015, m ... |
| Thailand’s novel approach to drugs could offer lesson to neighbors [07.08.2016] | Forward thinking is not what one has come to expect from the conservative military regime running Thailand for the past two years. But a government w ... |
| The opium bulbs of Myanmar: drug crop or lifeline for poor farmers? [21.06.2016] | An estimated 133,000 households in Myanmar, mainly found in impoverished, remote regions, last year grew poppies across 55,500 hectares (about 137,00 ... |
| Opium poppy farmers reject crop ban, war on drugs [25.01.2016] | Opium poppy farmers from Myanmar attending an international conference on “prohibited plants” have rejected a ban on growing their crops and urged an ... |
| Third Myanmar Opium Farmers’ Forum [10.09.2015] | Current drug control polices in South-east Asia are repressive and criminalise opium farmers, greatly affecting the lives of communities cultivating ... |
| Exploring the land-drugs nexus [03.06.2015] | "For many communities in Myanmar who grow opium, for them opium is not the problem, it is the solution to their problems," said local project consult ... |
| Current State of Counternarcotics Policy and Policy Reform Debates in Myanmar [28.04.2015] | This paper explores the current state of counternarcotics policy and policy reform debates in Myanmar. It analyzes the main trends in drug production ... |
| Improving global drug policy: Comparative perspectives and UNGASS 2016 [28.04.2015] | As the world prepares for the 2016 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 2016), an increasing numb ... |
| Myanmar returns to what sells: Heroin [03.01.2015] | A decade ago, Myanmar seemed on course to wipe out the opium fields and heroin jungle labs along its eastern border, the notorious Golden Triangle. T ... |
| Bouncing Back [30.04.2014] | TNI's indepth examination of the illegal drug market in the Golden Triangle, which has witnessed a doubling of opium production, growing prison popul ... |
| First Southeast Asia Opium Farmers Forum [16.12.2013] | In July 2013 TNI and Paung Ku organised the First Southeast Asia Opium Farmers Forum, bringing together some 30 representatives of local communities ... |
| Should kratom use be legal? [29.09.2013] | The leaves of kratom, a native of Southeast Asia in the coffee family, are used to relieve pain and improve mood as an opiate substitute and stimulan ... |
| Financing Dispossession - China’s Opium Substitution Programme in Northern Burma [20.02.2012] | China’s opium crop substitution programme has very little to do with providing mechanisms to decrease reliance on poppy cultivation or provide altern ... |
| ATS and Harm Reduction [04.11.2011] | Problematic use of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) has become a significant health and social problem in East and Southeast Asia, in particular the ... |
| Amphetamine Type Stimulants and Harm Reduction [01.10.2011] | Little is known about the methamphetamine market in the region, but there are strong indications that the situation is deteriorating with substances ... |
| Alternative Development or Business as Usual? [01.11.2010] | The Chinese Government's opium substitution programmes in northern Burma and Laos have prompted a booming rubber industry, but the beneficiaries have ... |
| From Golden Triangle to Rubber Belt? [01.07.2009] | In the Kokang and Wa regions in northern Burma opium bans have ended over a century of poppy cultivation. The bans have had dramatic consequences for ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bangkok Dialogue [18.02.2009] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) and the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) co-hosted the First Southeast Asian Informal Drug Policy Dialogue, 12-14 ... |
| 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 ... |
| The ATS Boom in Southeast Asia [15.01.2009] | In the 1990s, Southeast Asia experienced a boom in the production and consumption of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS), in particular methamphetamine ... |
| Withdrawal Symptoms in the Golden Triangle [09.01.2009] | Drug control agencies have called the significant decline in opium production in Southeast Asia over the past decade a 'success story'. The latest re ... |
| Downward Spiral [01.06.2005] | Opium farmers in Afghanistan and Burma are coming under huge pressure as local authorities implement bans on the cultivation of poppy. Banning opium ... |
| Global Trends. Lessons from Vienna [20.06.2003] | Martin Jelsma analysed the 2003 UNGASS mid-term review and drew some important conclusions for the 10-year review in 2008: "Alliances have to be cons ... |
| 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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