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| 100 Years of Global Drug Control | This year the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first international opium convention. What the UN drug czar s... |
| A 50 Year Old Convention: What's Wrong With an Update? | The HCLU’s video advocacy team attended the 54th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna. They asked both Mr. Yuri Fedotov, the ... |
| A Regretful Spirit | 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... |
| A report that dares to tell the truth to power | Global commissions made up of eminent former policymakers can normally be counted upon to tell international leaders what they want to hear. But the G... |
| Aide-Memoire on the Bolivian Proposal To Amend Article 49 of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs | In 2009, the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales Ayma, sent a letter to the General Secretary of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, in which the Governmen... |
| Amendment against anti-coca chewing provisions | In March 2009, Evo Morales sent his formal request to the Secretary General Bang Ki Moon to delete articles 49(c) and 49(e) of the 1961 UN Single Conv... |
| An inspirational proposal from Ecuador | On 21-23 February we organised our now seventh ‘informal drug policy dialogue’, this time in collaboration with the Ecuadorian government and with WOL... |
| Annual report of the International Narcotics Control Board: Corruption, human rights and OST | The International Narcotics Control Board yesterday presented its annual report for 2010. Every year the Board selects a thematic issue of focus, dedi... |
| Beyond Punitive Prohibition | The primary objective of this paper is to evaluate whether the drug conventions permit states to experiment with alternatives to the punitive prohibit... |
| Blessing in disguise? | Yesterday, President Evo Morales of Bolivia sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon rejecting the recommendations of the International Na... |
| Bolivia and the international drug control regime | Bolivia has denounced the International Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which bans the traditional practice of chewing coca leaf. Adam talks with Mar... |
| Bolivia calls on Obama to back coca campaign | President Barack Obama should recognize traditional uses of the coca leaf because not all production becomes cocaine, Bolivian President Evo Morales s... |
| Bolivia defends coca consumption at U.N. meeting | Bolivian President Evo Morales defended Bolivians' right to chew coca leaves, the main ingredient of cocaine, on Monday, saying it was an ancie... |
| Bolivia drops out of UN drug pact to protect its coca chewers | Bolivia has presented a denunciation to the UN that seals its resignation from the United Nations 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which ban... |
| Bolivia energises campaign to legalise coca leaf | Bolivia and the US set for more battles over the coca leaf as Evo Morales attempts to overturn legality of the indigenous plant. US diplomats are due ... |
| Bolivia fights objections to coca-leaf chewing | Bolivia will ask the United Nations to organize a conference on coca leaf-chewing if the U.S., Britain and Sweden don't withdraw their objecti... |
| Bolivia formally renounces UN narcotics convention because it penalizes coca-leaf chewing | Bolivia's government has informed the United Nations it is renouncing the world body's anti-drug convention because it classifies coca leaf... |
| Bolivia launches coca leaf diplomatic offensive | Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca is on a European tour in a bid to drum up support for taking coca off a UN treaty on banned drugs. Spanish foreig... |
| Bolivia Steps Up Campaign at U.N. to Legalise Coca Leaf | Is coca a dangerous drug that should be tightly regulated, or an essential part of Andean indigenous people's cultural and medicinal heritage? ... |
| Bolivia to defend coca leaf at UN | Bolivian officials at a conference on illegal drugs in Vienna are planning to ask the UN to remove the coca plant from its list of dangerous drugs. Th... |
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