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Just how “new” is the 2012 National Drug Control Strategy? [08-05-12] Some have hailed the Obama administration’s 2012 National Drug Control Strategy as a revolutionary shift toward a public health approach to the nation...
Cause for Alarm [04-04-12] 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 Policy in the Andes [15-12-11] 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,...
The development of international drug control [01-02-11] 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...
Thematic Briefings on Human Rights and Drug Policy [28-10-10] In many countries around the world, drug control efforts result in serious human rights abuses: torture and ill treatment by police, mass incarcerat...
Drug Law Reform: Lessons from the New Zealand Experience [19-08-10] In 2007, the Government of New Zealand entrusted an independent agency, the National Law Commission, to review the country’s drug law. The Commission ...
The Human Toll of the Drug War: A Pending Issue [10-08-10] 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...
Legislative Innovation in Drug Policy [01-11-09] 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 [01-10-09] 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...
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development [14-01-09] The Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment submits his third report to the Human Rights Council. ...
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