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Items tagged with eradication

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FARC proposes drug legalization at peace talks [06-02-13] At peace talks in Cuba, Colombian guerrilla group the FARC outlined a proposal to legalize drug consumption and cultivation, complementing reforms tha...
The illicit drugs market in the Colombian agrarian context [01-02-13] The distribution of land and its unjust use are the major causes of violence in Colombia. For this reason land issues are the starting point of curren...
Has Bolivia's coca-growing scheme worked? [04-01-13] Bolivian president Evo Morales, a former coca-leaf farmer, came to power promising to defend the right of Bolivians to produce coca for traditional u...
Peru’s New Drug Chief: Country “Let Down Its Guard” in Eradication [18-01-12] The outspoken Ricardo Soberon was head of Devidafor about five months and was in favor of a stronger intervention in drug policies by his institutio...
Back to Business as Usual as Peru Loses Progressive Drug Czar [15-01-12] Despite promising signs that Peru’s new president was ready to take a fresh approach to drug policy, focused on attacking traffickers and not coca f...
Peru replaces drug czar who de-emphasized coca plant eradication, saying it hurt poor growers [11-01-12] Peru’s government on Tuesday replaced its drug czar, whose refusal to endorse an all-out coca crop eradication effort put him at odds with the Cabin...
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,...
Peru's new anti-drug czar in delicate dance with U.S. [18-10-11] Peru's leftist government has scored some early victories in its bid to overhaul anti-drugs policy in the world's top coca grower while ke...
USAID's Alternative Development policy in Colombia [01-10-11] Alternative Development (AD) must not be part of a militarised security strategy, which is the predominant approach in Colombia. Instead of simply a...
Cocaine's becoming king in Peru [24-09-11] For years, Peru had a simple policy to fight cocaine: destroy the coca plants that were the key ingredient in the drug. It did not go so well. That ha...
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 ...
Round Table on Alternative Development [15-03-09] The last of the four ‘round tables’ of the high-level segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs was devoted to the broad issue of Countering illicit...
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 ...
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 ...
Toward a Paradigm Shift [12-02-09] Prohibitionist policies based on the eradication of production and on the disruption of drug flows as well as on the criminalization of consumption ha...
Withdrawal Symptoms [09-01-09] Drug control agencies have called the significant decline in opium production in Southeast Asia over the past decade a 'success story'. The ...
UNGASS review reaches critical stage [03-11-08] Transnational Institute, November 2008 The review of the objectives and action plans agreed at the 1998 UNGASS on Drugs has reached a critical stage....
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...
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