Items tagged with UNODC

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IDPC Response to the UNODC 2008 World Drug Report [01-09-08] In this response to the UNODC's World Drug Report 2008, the IDPC continues to support the concept of the Office acting in a capacity as a '...
Beyond 2008: Final Declaration and Resolutions [23-07-08] The Beyond 2008 NGO Forum was held in Vienna, Austriafrom July 7-9, 2008. It wasthe final step in the global consultation of NGOs involved in respondi...
Beyond 2008 video [23-07-08] Wednesday, 23 July 2008 From 7-9 July, 2008, 300 delegates met in Vienna for the Beyond 2008 NGO Forum meant to provide civil society input for the 1...
World anti-drugs day: mixed feelings [26-06-08] Thousands of bottles of alcohol are destroyed in Java to observe the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in 2007. ...
Humane drug policies [13-06-08] Chinese soldiers escort drug dealers to a public sentence on International Day against Drugs in 2005. Six of them were executed. ...
The current state of drug policy debate [09-06-08] Martin Jelsma, from the Transnational Institute, prepared an analysis for the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, explaining the drug po...
Refreshing Costa's memory [08-06-08] Today, June 8, it is 10 years ago that the world leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the ...
War Without End [07-06-08] An extraordinary documentary marking a new level in broadcast journalism critiquing the international war on drugs was shown on Irish TV last on 3 Jun...
Costa in Amsterdam [02-06-08] The head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Costa, recently visited Amsterdam on 24 April. Accompanied by some officials of the Neth...
The Cannabis Debate: Polak vs Costa [27-05-08] Antonio Costa, the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and Frederick Polak, a Dutch psychiatrist have been engaged in an i...
Questions for Mr. Costa [22-05-08] During IHRA's 19th international conference this month the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) recorded a film which poses a series of questio...
Cannabis resolutions at the 2008 CND [29-03-08] At the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in March 2008 in Vienna three resolutions on cannabis were tabled. They were all clearly against 'lenie...
Missing document [26-03-08] As we noted previously, Mr. Costa opening speech included some remarkably positive - and in the context of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs - sometime...
Not so silent partners [17-03-08] In his speech to the NGO forum at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on Wednesday 12 March, Mr. Antonio Maria Costa, the Executive Director of the...
UNGASS ten years on [01-03-08] Weaknesses in the United Nations drug control system have often been identified, related to the functioning of the key organs – the UN Office on Drugs...
Dutch Parliament discusses UNGASS [29-02-08] On thursday 28 February 2008 the Dutch Parliamentary Justice Commission devoted its debate to the drugs UNGASS review. Martin Jelsma was invited as on...
Provisional agenda and preparatory documents [21-02-08] You can find the provisional agenda and preparatory documents of the 51st CND on UNODC's website.
Flexibility of treaty provisions [20-02-08] In a confidential and authoritative memorandum to the INCB, UNODC legal experts argue that most harm reduction measures are in fact acceptable under t...
The World Drug Report 2007 [01-08-07] This IDPC Briefing reviews the data in the latest report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime on the state of the global market, criticises the cla...
The 2006 World Drug Report: winning the war on drugs? [01-09-06] This briefing paper looks at the issues raised by the publication in June of the latest World Drug Report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Cr...

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