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Bolivia formally renounces UN narcotics convention because it penalizes coca-leaf chewing [01-07-11] Bolivia's government has informed the United Nations it is renouncing the world body's anti-drug convention because it classifies coca leaf...
Bolivia Withdraws from the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [30-06-11] The Bolivian government formally notified the UN Secretary General of its withdrawal from the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (as amended by ...
Bolivia’s concurrent drug control and other international legal commitments [30-06-11] Bolivia’s denunciation of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is not just about one treaty. It is about finding an appropriate balance betwee...
Bolivia’s denunciation of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [30-06-11] Bolivia initially proposed an amendment to article 49, deleting the therein contained obligation that “coca leaf chewing must be abolished”. The artic...
Bolivia to denounce and rejoin the 1961 UN Single Convention with respect to coca leaf chewing [25-06-11] Press conference by H.E. Pablo Solon, Permanent Representative of the Plurinational State of Bolivia on the theme, "denounce and rejoin the Sin...
Bolivia to withdraw from drugs convention over coca classification [25-06-11] Bolivia is set to withdraw from an international narcotics convention in protest at its classification of coca leaves as an illegal drug. President E...
Bolivia Steps Up Campaign at U.N. to Legalise Coca Leaf [30-04-11] Is coca a dangerous drug that should be tightly regulated, or an essential part of Andean indigenous people's cultural and medicinal heritage? ...
The 2011 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [25-03-11] The 54th Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) was the first for the new Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Mr....
TNI Side Event at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs [24-03-11] The year 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (CND), the bedrock of the current UN drug control s...
Lifting the ban on coca chewing [18-03-11] January 31 marked the close of the 18-month period during which countries could submit objections to Bolivia’s proposal to remove from the 1961 Single...
INCB Report: mixed thoughts [02-03-11] Today the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) released its annual report. I’ve been following the Board for many, many years now, have often ...
Objections and support for Bolivia's coca amendment [01-03-11] After the closure of the January 31, 2011, deadline to file objections to the Bolivian amendment to remove the ban on coca leaf chewing in the 1961 ...
Seventeen objections to abolishing the ban on coca chewing [07-02-11] The final count after closure of the January 31 deadline to file objections to the Bolivian amendment to remove the ban on coca leaf chewing in the 19...
D-Day for Bolivia’s coca chewing amendment [31-01-11] Today is the deadline for countries to submit objections to Bolivia’s proposed amendment to remove the ban on coca leaf chewing in the 1961 UN Single...
Bolivia fights objections to coca-leaf chewing [28-01-11] 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...
The U.S. Can Still Correct its Position on Bolivia's UN Coca Chewing Amendment [28-01-11] The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the Andean Information Network (AIN), and more than 200 other concerned organizations and individual...
US objects to Bolivia bid for licit coca-chewing [19-01-11] The United States will file a formal objection Wednesday to Bolivia's proposal to end the ban on coca leaf-chewing specified by a half-century-o...
The U.S. Moves to Block Bolivia’s Request to Eliminate U.N. Ban on Coca Leaf Chewing [18-01-11] The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) have learned that the United States is moving to oppose, as soon a...
Diplomatic games to oppose lifting unjust ban on coca chewing [16-01-11] According to the government of Bolivia, the only three countries that did file a formal objection to the amendment of Bolivia to abolish the ban on co...
U.S. Renews Anachronistic Campaign to Stamp Out Coca Leaf Chewing [15-01-11] Just one month after President Obama announced that the U.S. would finally sign the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, U.S. official...
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