Items tagged with conventions
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| INCB speaks out against death penalty [05.03.2014] | UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) unprecedented condemnation of the use of death penalty for drug-related offences is welcome if long ... |
| Time for UN to open up dialogue on drug policy reform and end counter-productive blame-game [03.03.2014] | As the UN International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) launches its annual report on Tuesday, 4 March, amidst an unprecedented crisis in the internat ... |
| Are the three drug conventions still the cornerstone of the world drug control system? [20.01.2014] | UN member states are currently in the process of hammering out a ‘Joint Ministerial Statement’ for the upcoming High Level Review of the world drug r ... |
| INCB vs Uruguay: the art of diplomacy [17.12.2013] | International tensions over Uruguay’s decision to regulate the cannabis market reached new levels when Raymond Yans, president of the International N ... |
| 'Stop lying': Uruguay president chides UN official over marijuana law [14.12.2013] | Uruguay’s president has accused the head of the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Raymond Yans, of lying and double standards, after ... |
| Uruguay's Prez rips into UN official over marijuana law: 'Stop lying' [12.12.2013] | Uruguay's President Mujica shot back at the president of the International Narcotics Control Board, a U.N. agency, for saying that his administration ... |
| The US incapacity to enforce federal drug laws - and the global consequences [31.10.2013] | The US drug policy is changing, pitting states against federal law. This essay explores this inner friction of contradictory drug legislation, and wh ... |
| Expert Seminar: Costs and benefits of cannabis regulation models in Europe [30.10.2013] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) organized an expert seminar on Costs and Benefits of Cannabis Regulation Models in Europe in Amsterdam, The Netherl ... |
| Human rights and drug control: an irreconcilable contradiction? [15.10.2013] | This week both the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna and the UN General Assembly 3rd Committee in New York discuss new drug control res ... |
| Coca leaf: A Political Dilemma [07.10.2013] | For fifty years the World’s attitude to and treatment of the coca leaf and coca farmers has been controlled by the UN Drugs Conventions beginning wit ... |
| The 2013 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [31.05.2013] | Reflections upon this year’s CND are mixed. On the one hand, some states went further than ever before in openly challenging the current regime on th ... |
| The drug policy reform agenda in the Americas [30.04.2013] | Latin America has emerged at the vanguard of efforts to promote debate on drug policy reform. For decades, Latin American governments largely followe ... |
| Drug policy must return to focus on public health, SPP panelists say [11.04.2013] | Global drug policy must move away from stigmatizing and criminalizing users and focus on the public health issues at stake, panelists concluded at th ... |
| De wankele 'Weense consensus' over drugsbeleid [31.03.2013] | ??Nederland is met zijn drugsbeleid in de achterhoede terecht gekomen, zo stelt Martin Jelsma. Zo zijn Uruguay en de Amerikaanse staten Washington en ... |
| Life after cannabis prohibition: The city announces its ambitions [15.03.2013] | The tide is turning against the criminalisation of cannabis. Copenhagen wants to join the movement with a three-year trial to decriminalise the drug. ... |
| Cannabis and the 1961 Convention [12.03.2013] | Over the past years, there have been some soft and hard defections on cannabis control. It is now time to discuss alternatives that are based on fact ... |
| Ex-DEA heads, U.N. panel urge feds to nullify Wash., Colo. pot laws [05.03.2013] | Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs warned the federal government that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington's new l ... |
| Guatemala proposes "alternative strategies for combating drugs" [24.02.2013] | The Secretary General of the OAS highlighted the assignment received during the Sixth Summit of the Americas in 2012, which urged the OAS to analyze ... |
| The great experiment [23.02.2013] | A whiff of change is in the air regarding drug control policy. Officials in two American states, Colorado and Washington, are pondering how to implem ... |
| Towards a ceasefire [22.02.2013] | Partial reforms have their limits. Most drug crime is not cannabis-related. Moving from punishment to harm reduction may help drug users, but it leav ... |
| Coca and Snus: Sweden's self-defeating hypocrisy on drugs [15.01.2013] | Tradition is disposable. Evidence is marginal. Economic arguments are not important. This, in a nutshell, is what Sweden said to the UN to oppose tra ... |
| Major victory for President Morales: UN accepts “coca leaf chewing” in Bolivia [14.01.2013] | Bolivia will again belong to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs after its bid to rejoin with a reservation that it does not accept the trea ... |
| Bolivians demand the right to chew coca leaves [13.01.2013] | A major international row with wide-ranging implications for global drugs policy has erupted over the right of Bolivia's indigenous Indian tribes to ... |
| The condemned coca leaf [12.01.2013] | Last week, the United Nations voted on an appeal by Bolivia to amend the international treaty that prohibits the chewing of coca leaf. Bolivia won a ... |
| Schijnheilig bezwaar van Nederland tegen het kauwen van coca bladeren [11.01.2013] | De Nederlandse regering heeft bij de Verenigde Naties bezwaar aangetekend tegen de herintreding van Bolivia in het Enkelvoudig Verdrag inzake verdove ... |
| Bolivia wins a rightful victory on the coca leaf [11.01.2013] | Today the Plurinational State of Bolivia can celebrate a rightful victory, as the country can become formally a party again to the 1961 Single Conven ... |
| Partial, symbolic victory for Bolivia in battle to legalize coca leaf [11.01.2013] | Evo Morales’ global crusade to decriminalize the coca leaf, launched in 2006 after the coca growers’ union leader was first elected president of Boli ... |
| To look tough on drugs, and please the US, the UK is willing to trample on indigenous rights [06.01.2013] | The UK says in its objection to Bolivia's reaccession to the 1961 UN Single Convention with a reservation that allows for the traditional chewing of ... |
| Objections to Bolivia's reservation to allow coca chewing in the UN conventions [03.01.2013] | Sweden joined the United States and the United Kingdom in objecting to the re-accession of Bolivia to the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs ... |
| Roadmaps for Reforming the UN Drug Conventions [30.12.2012] | The three UN Drug Conventions of 1961, 1971 and 1988 currently impose a ‘one-size-fits-all’ prohibitionist approach to drug policy throughout the wor ... |
| How to do drugs right [24.12.2012] | Recently, two states in the US, Washington and Colorado, liberalised their narcotics laws and decriminalised recreational marijuana. India though, is ... |
| INCB President voices concern [15.11.2012] | The President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Raymond Yans, has voiced grave concern about the outcome of recent referenda in th ... |
| U.S. marijuana vote may have snowball effect in Latin America [07.11.2012] | Voters in Colorado and Washington state who approved the recreational use of marijuana Tuesday sent a salvo from the ballot box that will ricochet ar ... |
| Global drug policies need radical reform, says report [23.10.2012] | The global war on drugs has failed and international policy requires radical reform to remove outmoded, unscientific thinking, according to a major n ... |
| Governing The Global Drug Wars [23.10.2012] | Since 1909 the international community has worked to eradicate the abuse of narcotics. A century on, the efforts are widely acknowledged to have fail ... |
| Fact Sheet: Coca leaf and the UN Drugs Conventions [09.10.2012] | Version in PDF 1. An ECOSOC mandated study published in 1950 as the Report of the Commission of Enquiry on the Coca Leaf, recommends to suppress “the ... |
| Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico Urge UN to Review Global Drug Policy [03.10.2012] | Colombia, Mexico and Guatemala delivered a landmark declaration to the United Nations Secretary General calling on the organization to lead a debate ... |
| U.S.-led "war on drugs" questioned at U.N. [26.09.2012] | The presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala all called for a vigorous global debate of drug laws at the United Nations on Wednesday, raising new ... |
| The Dutch 2012 election result and the coffeeshops [14.09.2012] | The 2012 Dutch elections were hailed as decisive for the future of the coffeeshops, where the sale of small amounts of cannabis is tolerated. The res ... |
| The International Drug Control Treaties [31.07.2012] | The way the world looks at drug control is changing. There has been a growing awareness of the issue for the past decade, as well as increasing publi ... |
| Cannabis regulation in Uruguay: "Someone has to be first ..." [17.07.2012] | Uruguay may be poised to become the first country to opt for a state controlled and legally regulated cannabis market for medical as well as recreati ... |
| Expert Seminar on the Future of the UN Drug Conventions [22.06.2012] | As the debate on drug policy and law reform gathers momentum on the international stage, the failings of the three UN drug control conventions (1961, ... |
| INCB’s tortured logic [02.04.2012] | On several recent occasions, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has refused to offer an opinion on sanctions that violate international ... |
| Narcotics watchdog turns blind eye to rights abuses [28.03.2012] | In a world where drug offences are punishable with the death penalty, torture or arbitrary detention, we must ask how far States can go to enforce th ... |
| 100 years of global drug control [28.03.2012] | This year the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first international opium convention. What the UN drug czar ... |
| The Future of the Conventions [13.03.2012] | The year 2012 is particularly fitting to discuss the future of the UN drug control conventions as it marks the 100th anniversary of the first fully-f ... |
| Towards revision of the UN drug control conventions [08.03.2012] | Recent years have seen a growing unwillingness among increasing numbers of States parties to fully adhere to a strictly prohibitionist reading of the ... |
| The Limits of Latitude [07.03.2012] | Faced with a complex range of drug related problems, a growing number of nations are exploring the development of nationally appropriate policies tha ... |
| A Regretful Spirit [28.02.2012] | The terms used in the preface to the 2011 INCB annual report leave no doubt as to the illness afflicting this UN body: a (deep) regret is running thr ... |
| The UN International Narcotics Control Board Releases 2011 Annual Report [28.02.2012] | The UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), which monitors implementation of the global drug treaties, has trained its fire on Bolivia, th ... |
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