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Cause for Alarm	The new report is the first to calculate the total number of females in prisons on drug offences in Europe and Central Asia. It provides an analysis...
Drug Law Reform: Lessons from the New Zealand Experience	In 2007, the Government of New Zealand entrusted an independent agency, the National Law Commission, to review the country’s drug law. The Commission ...
Drug Laws and Prison in Ecuador	Ecuador has one of the harshest drug laws in the hemisphere. A non-violent drug offender can receive the same sentence, sometimes even...
Drug Laws and Prison in Mexico	Over the years, the Mexican government has adopted increasingly heavy prison sentences and militarized drug policies to confront drug tr...
Drug Policy in the Andes	Fifty years after signing the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and 40 years after the U.S. government declared a "war on drugs,...
Drug Policy Reform in Practice	The academic journal Nueva Sociedad recently released an issue to promote the debate in Latin America on drug policy reform. TNI contributed with th...
Drug War Anniversary a Time for Reflection and Action	Some anniversaries provide an occasion for celebration, others a time for reflection, still others a time for action. This June will mark forty year...
IDPC Drug Policy Guide	This is the first edition ofthe IDPCDrug Policy Guideaimed atnational government policy makers. This publication is a collaborative effort by a number...
Just How “New” is the 2012 National Drug Control Strategy?	Some have hailed the Obama administration’s 2012 National Drug Control Strategy as a revolutionary shift toward a public health approach to the nation...
Legislative Innovation in Drug Policy	This briefing summarizes good practices in legislative reforms around the world, representing steps away from a repressive zero-tolerance model toward...
Mexico: The Law Against Small-Scale Drug Dealing	In August 2009, Mexico adopted a new law against small-scale drug dealing, which introduces some significant advances in key subjects, such as the rec...
New York police officers defy order to cut marijuana arrests	Police officers in New York are "manufacturing" criminal offenses by forcing people with small amounts of marijuana to reveal their drugs, a...
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development	The Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment submits his third report to the Human Rights Council. ...
The current state of drug policy debate	Martin Jelsma, from the Transnational Institute, prepared an analysis for the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, explaining the drug po...
The development of international drug control	The emergence of more pragmatic and less punitive approaches to the drugs issue may represent the beginning of change in the current global drug contr...
The Human Face	The human toll of unjust drug policies often goes unseen and unacknowledged; often buried in statistics and official reports. That is why the Transnat...
The Human Toll of the Drug War: A Pending Issue	Analia Silva, an Afro-Ecuadorian woman in her late 40s, says that getting a job in Ecuador was really difficult for her because she did not know how t...
Thematic Briefings on Human Rights and Drug Policy	In many countries around the world, drug control efforts result in serious human rights abuses: torture and ill treatment by police, mass incarcerat...
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