Items tagged with UN drug control
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| Human Rights and drug policy [01.01.2020] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) has always believed in the need to find global answers to global problems, been a strong defender of multilateralis... |
| The UN Drug Control Conventions [31.12.2019] | For more than ten years, TNI’s Drugs & Democracy programme has been studying the UN drug control conventions and the institutional architecture of th... |
| We have waged war on drugs for a century. So who won? [29.05.2017] | W hile Rodrigo Duterte was campaigning to be elected president of the Philippines last year, he said on many occasions that he would arrange, if elec... |
| WHO and UNDP change in leadership: What views on drug policy and harm reduction? [04.05.2017] | The UN General Assembly Special Session on drugs held in April 2016 has been organized by the international drug control entities, but has confirmed ... |
| What comes next? [08.03.2017] | The 2016 UNGASS on drugs was hailed as an opportunity ‘to conduct a wide-ranging and open debate that considers all options’. Although the UNGASS fel... |
| The Case for International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Control [08.03.2017] | The international drug control treaties contribute directly to an environment of human rights risk and violations. The drug treaties are what are kno... |
| 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... |
| Deaths involving fentanyl rise as curbing illicit supply proves tough [17.11.2016] | To get in front of production, the State Department and a group of U.S. senators asked the United Nations in October to add to the list of tightly co... |
| Cannabis and Cannabis Resin [13.10.2016] | The scheduling under the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs assumes a scientific justification. However, cannabis and cannabis resin have never been... |
| Canada faces choice on international drug treaties over legalized pot [02.10.2016] | As Canada moves forward with its plan to legalize marijuana, government officials have at least one international conundrum to sort out: what to do a... |
| IDPC response to the 2015 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board [28.09.2016] | The Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB or Board) for 2015 is, like the broader international drug policy debate, colour... |
| Ketamine should be kept off worldwide illegal drugs list, doctors say [02.09.2016] | The powerful tranquiliser ketamine should be kept off a worldwide illegal drugs list despite it being abused by clubbers, doctors are arguing. They s... |
| 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... |
| Duterte ready to answer UN queries on drug killings [22.08.2016] | President Duterte dared United Nations (UN) experts to come to the Philippines and face him in a public meeting where he would answer all their quest... |
| Too near our doorsteps: guns and the war on drugs [02.08.2016] | The spate of killings in the Phillipines has clearly drawn the divide – on the surface, between the rich and poor, but at the core, between those who... |
| Dr Gandhi to move Bill to legalise recreational drugs [12.07.2016] | Patiala MP Dr Dharamvira Gandhi said that he was working on an amendment to Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance (NDPS) Act 1985 of India to leg... |
| UNGASS 2016: A Broken or B-r-o-a-d Consensus? [05.07.2016] | A special session of the General Assembly took place in April revealing a growing divergence in the global drug policy landscape. Difficult negotiati... |
| Cannabis Regulation and the UN Drug Treaties [16.06.2016] | As jurisdictions enact reforms creating legal access to cannabis for purposes other than exclusively “medical and scientific,” tensions surrounding t... |
| New Report Offers Strategies for Regulating Cannabis in Ways that Uphold and Modernize International Law [16.06.2016] | As an increasing number of jurisdictions consider whether and how to legalize and regulate access to cannabis, tensions are growing between these ini... |
| The human rights 'win' at the UNGASS on drugs that no one is talking about, and how we can use it [09.05.2016] | The April 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the world drug problem offered a unique opportunity to re-examine the approach of puni... |
| Rethinking drug prohibition on a global scale [01.05.2016] | Last month, the United Nations General Assembly met for the first time in history to reconsider international drug prohibition with an eye toward pol... |
| Lack of progress and transparency at the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs [26.04.2016] | The first meeting of UNGASS since 1998 was supposed to be a game changer in prodding the lumbering and often draconian UN drug policy regime into ser... |
| Rethinking the global war on drugs [25.04.2016] | The U.S. is in the untenable position of violating the existing treaties — now that four states have legalized the sale of recreational marijuana. Th... |
| Global Commission slams UNGASS 2016 outcome that strains the credibility of international law [20.04.2016] | At a packed press conference in Manhattan, a formidable panel – including former presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Switzerland, a former chairman of... |
| TNI at UNGASS 2016: reports from New York [20.04.2016] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) attended the 30th session of the UN General Assembly Special Session on the world drug problem in New York from the... |
| Cannabis and the Conventions: UNGASS and Beyond [19.04.2016] | With an increasing number of jurisdictions enacting or contemplating reforms creating legal access to cannabis for purposes other than exclusively "m... |
| Remarks Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights [19.04.2016] | "When drugs are decriminalised and health care, including harm reduction, is available, which is the case in a number of Member States, drug dependen... |
| Russia's 'cold turkey' approach highlights global divide over drug treatment at UN [19.04.2016] | As international leaders debated global drug law at the United Nations, a bizarre panel on heroin treatment showed just how divided countries are ove... |
| Weed and the UN: Why international drug laws won't stop legalization [19.04.2016] | Under the outcome document for UNGASS that was drafted by diplomats in Vienna and formally adopted at UN headquarters in New York, weed still remains... |
| UN backs prohibitionist drug policies despite call for more 'humane solution' [19.04.2016] | The 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) has approved an agreement that leaves in place the prohibitionist policies banning narcotics us... |
| Cannabis Science and Policy Summit 2016 [16.04.2016] | With California and other states likely to vote on full cannabis legalization, decisions made in 2016 may well shape the future of cannabis policy fo... |
| Open letter to UN chief calls for global drug policy shift [14.04.2016] | An open letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon signed by more than 1,000 people, including financier Warren Buffett, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren... |
| Ahead of a key meeting, Russia is driving global drug policy into the ground [13.04.2016] | As the first major global meeting on drug policy in two decades approaches, Russia is quietly emerging as a powerful force working to perpetuate the ... |
| UNGASS 2016: Watershed event or wasted opportunity? [12.04.2016] | At about two o'clock in the morning on March 23rd, after tense negotiations in Vienna, the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) reached a disappoint... |
| Illicit drugs are not the only problem [10.04.2016] | Next week the United Nations is convening the largest gathering on drug policy that the world has seen in two decades. It was the brainchild of three... |
| The old global consensus on the war on drugs is crumbling [09.04.2016] | Once a decade, the United Nations organizes a meeting where every country in the world comes together to figure out what to do about drugs — and up t... |
| The UN’s war on drugs is a failure [02.04.2016] | A policy of prohibition has put the drugs trade in the hands of criminals and led to suffering for millions. 2008 was the year that the world didn’t ... |
| This UN summit could finally end the war on drugs [23.03.2016] | Next month, the 193 member states of the United Nations will meet to talk about drugs. The last time this happened, in 1998, the summit ended with a ... |
| Will UNGASS 2016 be the beginning of the end for the ‘war on drugs’? [16.03.2016] | In April 2016, the UN will dedicate, for the third time in its history, a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) to discuss global ... |
| Unravelling the human cost of global drug policy [13.03.2016] | The international drug control system has caused much greater damage than the substances it targets. Gross human rights violations have been committe... |
| Striving for system-wide coherence [11.03.2016] | In April 2016, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) will convene its 30th Special Session (or ‘UNGASS’) – and the third to focus on the ‘w... |
| The history of cannabis and international control [02.03.2016] | This timeline draws on The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition, a report that described the history of international control, how cannabis was i... |
| UNGASS 2016: Prospects for Treaty Reform and UN System-Wide Coherence on Drug Policy [29.02.2016] | This paper explores key lessons from the 1990 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Drug Abuse (UNGASS 1990) and the 1998 Special... |
| Lift the Ban! [22.02.2016] | In my experience, good public policy is best shaped by the dispassionate analysis of what in practice has worked, or not. Policy based on common assu... |
| See inside the Himalayan villages that grow cannabis [31.01.2016] | Cannabis is illegal in India, but many villagers have turned to charas manufacturing out of financial necessity. “Nearly 400 of the 640 districts in ... |
| A new deal on drugs is as vital as a climate change accord [30.01.2016] | Standing on the podium at the United Nations in New York in June 1998, Kofi Annan declared: "It is time for all nations to say 'yes' to the challenge... |
| Legalizing pot in Canada will run afoul of global treaties, Trudeau warned [04.01.2016] | The Liberal government will have to do substantial work on the international stage before it can follow through on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pr... |
| UNGASS 2016: Change to global drug policy unlikely [22.12.2015] | Next year's United Nation's General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem is, by UN standards, set to be controversial. But it is unlike... |
| Decriminalise drugs to meet users' right to good health, says UN official [09.12.2015] | All drug use should be decriminalised and possession made free from the threat of lengthy prison terms, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to h... |
| As UNGASS approaches, yet another devastating UN critique of the drug war is published [08.12.2015] | A significant positive outcome has already emerged from next year’s UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs in the form of much more di... |
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