Items tagged with UNGASS
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What comes next? [27.11.2016] | The UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs – held in New York in April 2016 – was hailed as an opportunity for the international commu ... |
The United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the World Drug Problem [31.08.2016] | In October 2012, the governments of Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico issued a joint declaration calling for a UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGA ... |
UNGASS 2016: Background memo on the proposal to establish an expert advisory group [14.11.2015] | Significant changes in the global drug policy landscape are shaping up in the UNGASS 2016 preparations, in the direction of more humane and proportio ... |
The road to the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs in 2016 [27.01.2015] | UN forums in recent years have witnessed more and more governments expressing their frustrations with the failing global war on drugs. This failure g ... |
Cross-regional statement on Drugs and Human Rights General Debate [25.09.2014] | This is the first member states' crossregional statement on drugs and human rights in the human rights council. Download the Statement. |
UN High-Level Segment on Drugs, March 2014 [28.02.2014] | On March 13-14, 2014, UN member states will gather in Vienna, Austria, for a High Level Segment of the annual UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND). ... |
Kofi Annan: Stop 'war on drugs' [05.11.2013] | Each year, hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from preventable drug-related disease and violence. Millions of users are arrested an ... |
Statement at the 2013 Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) [15.03.2013] | Ann Fordham of the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) delivered the NGO Statement to CND Plenary under Item 8: Preparations for the high-lev ... |
"Impossible" to end drug trade, says Calderón [23.11.2012] | Ending the consumption and the trafficking of illegal drugs is “impossible”, according to Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s outgoing president. In an intervi ... |
The 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [09.04.2009] | 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 ... |
Vienna Consensus on Drug Policy Cracks [07.04.2009] | 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- ... |
Why is the outcome of the United Nations drug policy review so weak and inconclusive? [31.03.2009] | 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-yea ... |
Round Table on Alternative Development [15.03.2009] | 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 illici ... |
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 ... |
Out of ideas and out of touch [09.03.2009] | 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 framewo ... |
Political Declaration already ridiculed [08.03.2009] | News about the disappointing content of the Political Declaration to be adopted at the High Level Segment of the 52nd Commission on Narcotic Drugs (C ... |
International Drug Policy: Animated Report 2009 [05.03.2009] | 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 [19.02.2009] | Marco Perduca and Donatella Poretti, senators of the Radical Party have asked the Italian under-secretary on drug issues, Carlo Giovanardi, if it is ... |
UN System-Wide Coherence [16.02.2009] | 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 [12.02.2009] | Prohibitionist policies based on the eradication of production and on the disruption of drug flows as well as on the criminalization of consumption h ... |
Toward a Paradigm Shift [11.02.2009] | The Commission Gathered at its Second Meeting, in Bogota The Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy presented its conclusions at a press co ... |
Global Fund supports Harm Reduction [09.02.2009] | 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 [06.02.2009] | The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, Professor Manfred Nowak, has called on UN member states to adopt a rights based approach to drug po ... |
Dutch Remain Firm on Harm Reduction [02.02.2009] | “We will be aiming for no less than securing the inclusion of harm reduction in the political declaration by which member states determine internatio ... |
Europe and US split over drugs policy at UN [30.01.2009] | The fight over the introduction of harm reduction in the Political Declaration of the UNGASS review has now reached the newspapers. A report by Reute ... |
Stop US Delegation in Vienna [29.01.2009] | 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 [27.01.2009] | Nelson Mandela, showing his support for people living with HIV / AIDS Allan Clear of the Harm Reduction Coalition made an urgent appeal on the Obama ... |
Harm reduction as part of the solution [23.01.2009] | 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 offi ... |
Lifting the Ban on Harm Reduction [21.01.2009] | The Obama White House announced today that the new President supports lifting the federal ban on needle exchange, which could dramatically reduce rat ... |
The Battle for Harm Reduction [21.01.2009] | The issue of harm reduction continues to be controversial during the negotiations in Vienna for the Political Declaration that has to be adopted in M ... |
UN Human Rights Experts Contribute to UNGASS Review [20.01.2009] | December 2008 The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment – Professor Manfred Nowa ... |
International Support for Harm Reduction [20.01.2009] | A useful overview of UN endorsement of harm reduction measures; the legality of harm reduction services under the Drug Conventions; the obligation in ... |
UNGASS review reaches critical stage [03.11.2008] | Transnational Institute, November 2008 The review of the objectives and action plans agreed at the 1998 UNGASS on Drugs has reached a critical stage. ... |
An Overview of Cannabis Policy [31.10.2008] | On October 2, 2008, the Beckley Foundation launched in the House of Lords its Global Cannabis Commission Report, an authoritative guide to the effect ... |
Beyond 2008: Final Declaration and Resolutions [23.07.2008] | The 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 respon ... |
Beyond 2008 video [23.07.2008] | Wednesday, 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 1 ... |
Experts on Alternative Development meet in Vienna [16.07.2008] | From 2-4 July I attended the “open-ended intergovernmental expert working group on international cooperation on the eradication of illicit drug crops ... |
Beyond 2008 – a truly remarkable event [12.07.2008] | Earlier this week, 7-9 July, 300 delegates met in Vienna for the Beyond 2008 NGO Forum meant to provide civil society input for the 10-year UNGASS re ... |
High Level Meeting on AIDS [11.06.2008] | Wednesday 11 June 2008 The 2008 High Level Meeting on AIDS opened on June 10 at the United Nations headquarters in New York under the theme 'Uniting ... |
The current state of drug policy debate [09.06.2008] | Martin Jelsma, from the Transnational Institute, prepared an analysis for the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, explaining the drug p ... |
Rewriting history [01.06.2008] | 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 goal ... |
Latin America needs a new drug policy approach [02.05.2008] | Friday, 2 May 2008 TNI’s Martin Jelsma participated in the inaugural meeting in Rio de Janeiro of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democrac ... |
The 2008 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [13.04.2008] | The 51st Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) was designated as the point at which the international community would debate the progress made in the 10 ... |
Missing document [26.03.2008] | As we noted previously, Mr. Costa opening speech included some remarkably positive - and in the context of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs - sometim ... |
Statements at 2008 CND [17.03.2008] | Several government and UN officials as well as civil society organisations made interesting statements at the 51st session of the Commission on Narco ... |
Statement about the coca leaf [11.03.2008] | Statement in support of the Bolivian announcement to ask for the un-scheduling of the coca leaf from the list controlled substances of the 1961 UN Si ... |
UNGASS ten years on [01.03.2008] | Weaknesses in the United Nations drug control system have often been identified, related to the functioning of the key organs – the UN Office on Drug ... |
UN: conflicting views on harm reduction [18.02.2008] | Conflicting views and policies within the UN system on harm reduction have become a major concern. Consistency in messages is crucial especially wher ... |
Invitational Conference Cannabis Policy [12.12.2007] | TNI co-signed a letter that was sent to the Dutch Prime Minister and relevant parliamentary commissions, stressing the need for an active Dutch invol ... |
UNGASS review 2008-2009 [31.03.2007] | The 50th Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), held in Vienna from 12-16 March 2007 was the last such event before the watershed year of 2008, when the ... |
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