Tag: UNODC
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UNODC Executive Director releases "contributions" ahead of CND High-Level Segment on drugs
Sunday, 19 January 2014Ahead 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, has released his "contributions" to the debate. This ...
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INCB vs Uruguay: the art of diplomacy
Tuesday, 17 December 2013International tensions over Uruguay’s decision to regulate the cannabis market reached new levels when Raymond Yans, president of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), accused Uruguay of ...
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More U.N. states quietly say no to drug war
Friday, 06 December 2013An internal United Nations draft document leaked last weekend has offered outsiders a rare look at longstanding disagreements between member states over the course of U.N. drug policy. The document, ...
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IDPC Response to the UNODC World Drug Report 2013
Friday, 11 October 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 provides an overview of recent trends and the current ...
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Denmark ends Iranian drug crime support
Tuesday, 09 April 2013The Danish development minister, Christian Friis Bach (Radikale), has decided to cease providing financial support to a United Nations anti-drug programme due to revelations that Iran has been using ...
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An ugly truth in the war on drugs
Monday, 11 March 2013This week, representatives from many nations will gather at the annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna to determine the appropriate course of the international re ...
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Between Reality and Abstraction
Monday, 31 December 2012
At the International Conference on Alternative Development (ICAD), held 15-16 November 2012 in Lima, the Peruvian Government continued to insist on the relevance of “Alternative Development (AD),” w ...
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An opportunity lost
Sunday, 18 November 2012At the International Conference on Alternative Development (ICAD), held in Lima from 14 to 16 November, the Peruvian Government supported by the UNODC claimed that currently in Peru the surface plant ...
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UN International Guiding Principles on Alternative Development
Thursday, 08 November 2012In November 2011 I was invited by the Thai government to take part in an international delegation to develop a set of UN International Guiding Principles on Alternative Development. Our work began wi ...
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IDPC response to the UNODC World Drug Report 2012
Wednesday, 31 October 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 data and topics presented in the Report and where ...
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UK aid to Iran's war on drugs has led to rise in hangings, UN warns
Saturday, 27 October 2012Britain'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 the number of narcotics smugglers executed in the Is ...
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Governing The Global Drug Wars
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Since 1909 the international community has worked to eradicate the abuse of narcotics. A century on, the efforts are widely acknowledged to have failed, and worse, have spurred black market violence ...
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Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico Urge UN to Review Global Drug Policy
Wednesday, 03 October 2012Colombia, Mexico and Guatemala delivered a landmark declaration to the United Nations Secretary General calling on the organization to lead a debate on alternative approaches to the current war on dr ...
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How International Aid for Drug Enforcement Fuels Human Rights Abuses
Tuesday, 02 October 2012It is increasingly clear that there is a fundamental lack of oversight of how international aid – provided by the US, Europe and the United Nations to poorer countries – is used to pursue anti-drug e ...
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The 2012 Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Sunday, 29 April 2012The 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 the UN drug control treaties. The 55th session of ...
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IDPC response to the UNODC 2011 World Drug Report
Wednesday, 31 August 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 data and topics presented in the Report and where ...
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The Russian drug czar vs. methadone: Parcel of lies
Friday, 15 April 2011HCLU's video advocacy team filmed the press conference of the Russian government delegation at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs this year - our movie challenges the Russian drug czar's statement on o ...
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The 2011 Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Friday, 25 March 2011The 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. Yury Fedotov, who held his maiden speech. It was ...
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Do we really want a Russian UN Drug Czar?
Friday, 09 July 2010According to the Transform blog, it has been confirmed that the Russian diplomat Yuri V. Fedotov has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC). What wil ...
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A Russian Drug Czar for the world?
Tuesday, 06 July 2010A 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 Crime (UNODC) – the world's new drug czar, accordin ...
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The 2009 World Drug Report
Wednesday, 30 September 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 Commission on Narcotic Drugs. As such, it was eagerly antic ...
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Call to Action: Support Global Drug Policy Reform
Thursday, 25 June 2009Call 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 and experts worldwide today issued a call to action ...
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Why is the outcome of the United Nations drug policy review so weak and inconclusive?
Tuesday, 31 March 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-year long review of progress achieved within the glob ...
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Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007
Sunday, 15 March 2009This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 2007 – the primary target of the 1998 UNGASS, which ...
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Political Declaration already ridiculed
Sunday, 08 March 2009News about the disappointing content of the Political Declaration to be adopted at the High Level Segment of the 52nd Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) next week in Vienna is filtering to the outsid ...
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Trees for Ecstasy
Wednesday, 04 February 2009Many people believe that ecstasy is merely a synthetic drug that is manufactured solely with chemicals, so-called precursors. However, the main raw material for ecstasy, safrole, is extracted from va ...
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UNGASS review reaches critical stage
Monday, 03 November 2008Transnational Institute, November 2008 The review of the objectives and action plans agreed at the 1998 UNGASS on Drugs has reached a critical stage. Following the thematic debate at the 2008 Commiss ...
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IDPC Response to the UNODC 2008 World Drug Report
Sunday, 31 August 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 expertise' that collates data, analysis and inform ...
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Beyond 2008: Final Declaration and Resolutions
Wednesday, 23 July 2008The 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 responding to drug related problems and to provide civil ...
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Beyond 2008 video
Wednesday, 23 July 2008Wednesday, 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 10-year UNGASS review. The goal was to produce a co ...
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World anti-drugs day: mixed feelings
Thursday, 26 June 2008Thousands of bottles of alcohol are destroyed in Java to observe the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in 2007. Today, June 26, is the official UN International Day Against ...
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Humane drug policies
Friday, 13 June 2008Chinese 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 Meeting on AIDS, a group of civil society organis ...
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The current state of drug policy debate
Monday, 09 June 2008Martin Jelsma, from the Transnational Institute, prepared an analysis for the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, explaining the drug policy situation in the European Union and the curr ...
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Refreshing Costa's memory
Sunday, 08 June 2008Today, 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 World Drug Problem. "A drug free world – We can d ...
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War Without End
Saturday, 07 June 2008An extraordinary documentary marking a new level in broadcast journalism critiquing the international war on drugs was shown on Irish TV last on 3 June 2008. The report is a comprehensive indictment o ...
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Costa in Amsterdam
Monday, 02 June 2008The head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Costa, recently visited Amsterdam on 24 April. Accompanied by some officials of the Netherlands Ministry of Health and of the City of Ams ...
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Rewriting history
Sunday, 01 June 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 goals were “eliminating or significantly reducing the ...
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The Cannabis Debate: Polak vs Costa
Tuesday, 27 May 2008Antonio Costa, the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and Frederick Polak, a Dutch psychiatrist have been engaged in an interesting (and worldwide) debate about Dutch can ...
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Questions for Mr. Costa
Thursday, 22 May 2008During IHRA's 19th international conference this month the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) recorded a film which poses a series of questions to Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the U ...
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Cannabis resolutions at the 2008 CND
Saturday, 29 March 2008At the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in March 2008 in Vienna three resolutions on cannabis were tabled. They were all clearly against 'lenient policies' in some countries depenalising or decrimi ...
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Missing document
Wednesday, 26 March 2008As we noted previously, Mr. Costa opening speech included some remarkably positive - and in the context of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs - sometimes daring statements. His remarks were further ela ...
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Not so silent partners
Monday, 17 March 2008In 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 the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), emphasized ...
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UNGASS ten years on
Saturday, 01 March 2008Weaknesses in the United Nations drug control system have often been identified, related to the functioning of the key organs – the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), International Narcotics Contr ...
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Flexibility of treaty provisions
Wednesday, 20 February 2008In a confidential and authoritative memorandum to the INCB, UNODC legal experts argue that most harm reduction measures are in fact acceptable under the conventions. According to the Legal Affairs Se ...
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UN: conflicting views on harm reduction
Monday, 18 February 2008Conflicting views and policies within the UN system on harm reduction have become a major concern. Consistency in messages is crucial especially where it concerns joint global programmes such as the ...
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Missing Targets
Saturday, 01 September 2007
Despite efforts by the Afghan government and the international community to reduce poppy cultivation, opium production in Afghanistan has once again reached record levels in 2007. The United Nations ...
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The World Drug Report 2007
Tuesday, 31 July 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 claims made in the report that international action is ...
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The 2006 World Drug Report: winning the war on drugs?
Friday, 01 September 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 Crime. The briefing paper analyses the developing d ...
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International Drug Control: 100 Years of Success?
Monday, 26 June 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 drug control regime has been an effective instrume ...
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A cannabis pandemic?
Monday, 26 June 2006In 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 drug control regime has been an effective instrumen ...
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