Items tagged with 10-year Review

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The 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [09-04-09] The 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs and its High Level Segment (HLS) marked the end of the 2-year process of the 10-year review of the 1998 United N...
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...
Coherence Not Denial [09-03-09] As the international community finalises the Political Declaration and work plan that will guide the next ten years of international drug policy, it...
Out of ideas and out of touch [09-03-09] As political leaders from around the world gather in Vienna on 11-12 March to review the last decade of international drug control, and set a framew...
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 ...
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...
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...
The Battle for Harm Reduction [21-01-09] The issue of harm reduction continues to be controversial during the negotiations in Vienna for the Political Declaration that has to be adopted in Ma...
UN Human Rights Experts Contribute to UNGASS Review [20-01-09] December 2008 The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment – Professor Manfred Nowa...
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....
UNGASS review restart [03-11-08] The review of the objectives and action plans agreed at the 1998 UNGASS on Drugs has reached a critical stage. Today and tomorrow, government repres...
Ten Years [07-07-08] Today over 300 NGOs from around the world, including TNI, are meeting in Vienna for 'Beyond 2008 - A Global Forum on the 1998-2008 Review of the ...
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 ...
The 2008 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [13-04-08] The 51st Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) was designated as the point at which the international community would debate the progress made in the 10 ...
Statements at 2008 CND [17-03-08] Several government and UN officials as well as civil society organisations made interesting statements at the 51st session of the Commission on Narcot...
Statement about the coca leaf [11-03-08] Statement in support of the Bolivian announcement to ask for the un-scheduling of the coca leaf from the list controlled substances of the 1961 UN Sin...
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...

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