Tag: UNODC
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The UN and Harm Reduction - Revisited
Friday, 01 April 2005
The US pressure on the UNODC to withdraw support from needle exchange and other harm reduction approaches backfired at the 48th session of the CND in March 2005. Delegates from around the globe stood ...
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The United Nations and Harm Reduction
Thursday, 10 March 2005
In March 2005 the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) will meet in Vienna. The confrontation between zero-tolerance ideologists and harm reduction pragmatists will be fiercer than ever before. The ...
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Plan Afghanistan
Saturday, 01 January 2005
In November 2004 an unknown mystery plane sprayed opium poppy fields in eastern Afghanistan. Although the US denied any involvement, the US State Department is pressing for aggressive aerial eradicti ...
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Global Trends. Lessons from Vienna
Friday, 20 June 2003Martin Jelsma analysed the 2003 UNGASS mid-term review and drew some important conclusions for the 10-year review in 2008: "Alliances have to be constructed rooted in pragmatic approaches and in soli ...
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Drugs in the UN system
Tuesday, 01 April 2003
The "international community" presented an apparent unanimity in its endorsement of prohibitive drug control at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs in 1998. The real ...
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The Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the United Nations International Drug Control Programme
Tuesday, 01 April 2003
Meetings of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) are no forum for debate and change. The author, a former senior officer of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP), shows ho ...
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Alternative Development and Drug Control
Tuesday, 08 January 2002What can Alternative Development interventions realistically hope to achieve, given the growing demand for illicit drugs and the continuing prevalence of rural poverty. Non-conditionality for the con ...
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New Possibilities for Change in International Drug Control
Saturday, 01 December 2001
The Executive Director of the Office of Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP), Pino Arlacchi, will resign mid-2002. Mr. Arlacchi's position became untenable when the UN Inspector General's Office ...
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A Lost Opportunity
Monday, 15 June 1998United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS) New York, 8-10 June 1998 The "United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem" held from 8 ...
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Cheerleaders Against Drugs
Monday, 08 June 1998Manhattan is filled this week with world leaders attending a well-intentioned but misdirected United Nations conference on drugs. With drugs more plentiful and cheaper than ever worldwide, the leader ...
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Full scope on the War on Drugs
Thursday, 30 April 1998An elderly cleaning lady enters the huge empty UN aula in New York with her polishing cart, to get the venue spic-and-span for an important upcoming meeting. A voice in the background explains: "Here ...
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