Items tagged with HIV/AIDS

Item title Description
The Vienna Declaration [29-06-10] The Vienna Declaration is a statement seeking to improve community health and safety by calling for the incorporation of scientific evidence into illi...
Drug policy reform in practice [14-08-09] The academic journal Nueva Sociedad recently released an issue to promote the debate in Latin America on drug policy reform. TNI contributed with the ...
Call to Action: Support Global Drug Policy Reform [25-06-09] Call to Action World Drug Day, 26 June 2009 As the United Nations launches the 2009 World Drug Report this week, more than 40 international groups a...
INCB elections [20-05-09] On Monday the 18th, at the UN-ECOSOC session in New York, elections took place for six members of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB). Th...
Horse trading at the UN [19-05-09] NGOs in the drug policy field have criticised the outcome of the recent elections to the United Nation’s International Narcotic Control Board (INCB) ...
Vienna Consensus on Drug Policy Cracks [07-04-09] A clear divide in drug control approaches became apparent at the end of the High Level Segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on March 11-1...
Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 [15-03-09] This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 20...
Political Declaration already ridiculed [08-03-09] News about the disappointing content of the Political Declaration to be adopted at the High Level Segment of the 52nd Commission on Narcotic Drugs (...
International Drug Policy: Animated Report 2009 [05-03-09] Produced by an Oscar-winning studio for the Global Drug Policy Program of the Open Society Institute, International Drug Policy: Animated Report 2009 ...
Italy breaks ranks [19-02-09] Marco Perduca and Donatella Poretti, senators of the Radical Party have asked the Italian under-secretary on drug issues, Carlo Giovanardi, if it is t...
At What Cost? [19-02-09] A decade after governments worldwide pledged to achieve a "drug-free world," there is little evidence that the supply or demand of illicit d...
Bangkok Dialogue [18-02-09] The Transnational Institute (TNI) and the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) co-hosted the First Southeast Asian Informal Drug Policy Dialogue, 12-14 ...
UN System-Wide Coherence [16-02-09] The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, wrote a letter to the delegates negotiating the Political Declaration for the 52nd session of the UN...
Global Fund supports Harm Reduction [09-02-09] The Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Michel Kazatchkine, urged the president of the UN Commission on Na...
Harm Reduction Policy and Practice Worldwide [07-02-09] The overview lists the countries and territories around the world that support harm reduction in policy or practice. Download the overview
Human Rights Council and drug policy [06-02-09] The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, Professor Manfred Nowak, has called on UN member states to adopt a rights based approach to drug pol...
Dutch Remain Firm on Harm Reduction [02-02-09] “We will be aiming for no less than securing the inclusion of harm reduction in the political declaration by which member states determine internation...
Europe and US split over drugs policy at UN [30-01-09] The fight over the introduction of harm reduction in the Political Declaration of the UNGASS review has now reached the newspapers. A report by Reuter...
Stop US Delegation in Vienna [29-01-09] The US delegation in Vienna continues to block any inclusion of harm reduction in the new Political Declaration – to be approved in March 2009 at the ...
Harm Reduction and Human Rights [29-01-09] IHRA’s HR2 programme released a report entitled ‘Harm Reduction and Human Rights: The Global Response to Drug-Related HIV Epidemics’. The report provi...

::

More items tagged with HIV/AIDS on: druglawreform.info

Page 1 of 3

Publications

Coca Myths

debate17

The coca leaf has been used and misused for many ends, each of them suiting different interests and agendas.

Read more...

Tags

show

This website

support-ec-osi-disclaimer-web

Other projects

TNI Drug Law Reform Project

Drug Law Reform in Latin America is a project of the TNI Drugs & Democracy programme

dd-logo
"Promoting a more effective and humane drug policy in Latin America"

UN Drug Control

In 2011 the 1961 UN Single Convention on drugs will be in place for 50 years. In 2012 the international drug control system will exist 100 years since the International Opium Convention was signed in 1912 in The Hague. Does it still serve its purpose or is a reform of the UN Drug Conventions needed? This site provides critical background.