Tag: colombia
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INCB: controversial statements on coca leaf
Wednesday, 05 March 2008Read here the full text of the controversial statements on coca leaf included in this year's Annual Report of the INCB. Some highlights: > "The Board calls upon the Governments of Bolivia and Peru to ...
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Response to INCB's Annual Report 2007
Sunday, 02 March 2008The 2007 INCB Annual Report shows some signs of a more balanced approach by the INCB to the policy dilemmas around proportionality of sentences and harm reduction. While this is welcome, the Board st ...
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Super coca?
Wednesday, 20 February 2008The French news agency AFP recently reported the discovery of a new species of coca plant. According to the report, which was repeated by various media around the world, a coca plant was found in Col ...
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Broken promises and coca eradication in Peru
Tuesday, 01 March 2005The forced crop eradication policy implemented by the Peruvian government over the past 25 years has failed. The official strategy has exacerbated social conflicts; contributed to various types of su ...
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Plan Afghanistan
Saturday, 01 January 2005In November 2004 an unknown mystery plane sprayed opium poppy fields in eastern Afghanistan. Although the US denied any involvement, the US State Department is pressing for aggressive aerial eradicti ...
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Global Trends. Lessons from Vienna
Friday, 20 June 2003Martin Jelsma analysed the 2003 UNGASS mid-term review and drew some important conclusions for the 10-year review in 2008: "Alliances have to be constructed rooted in pragmatic approaches and in soli ...
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Cross Purposes
Sunday, 01 June 2003The anti-drug strategy in Colombia limits the establishment of the basic political conditions necessary to attain the socio-economic goals of alternative development in the midst of war. President Ál ...
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A Failed Balance
Friday, 01 March 2002In the area of failed alternative development (AD) projects, the Andean region has its sorry share to contribute. The constant peasant uprisings n the Bolivian Chapare and the social tensions rife am ...
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Alternative Development and Drug Control
Tuesday, 08 January 2002What can Alternative Development interventions realistically hope to achieve, given the growing demand for illicit drugs and the continuing prevalence of rural poverty. Non-conditionality for the con ...
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Full scope on the War on Drugs
Thursday, 30 April 1998An elderly cleaning lady enters the huge empty UN aula in New York with her polishing cart, to get the venue spic-and-span for an important upcoming meeting. A voice in the background explains: "Here ...
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Background briefing on UNGASS
Tuesday, 24 March 1998Background on the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drug Control Martin Jelsma TNI Briefing, March 1998 The "Special Session of the General Assembly to Consider the Fight Against the ...
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