Items tagged with 2016 UNGASS
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| TNI at CND 2016: reports from Vienna [21.03.2016] | The Transnational Institute (TNI) attended the 59th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna from the 14-22nd March. The CND negotiat ... |
| Will UNGASS 2016 be the beginning of the end for the ‘war on drugs’? [16.03.2016] | In April 2016, the UN will dedicate, for the third time in its history, a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) to discuss global ... |
| Canadian official causes stir with ‘progressive’ speech at UN narcotics conference [15.03.2016] | The Liberal government used its first foray into the global anti-narcotics arena this week to signal a clear shift away from the war-on-drugs philoso ... |
| The United Nations is supposed to be negotiating a solution to the ‘world drug problem’, and it’s not going well [15.03.2016] | This April, the UN General Assembly Special Session on drugs will convene in New York – seen by many as a possible breaking point for the global drug ... |
| Opponents of the War on Drugs are not satisfied with the UN's plan to end it [13.03.2016] | After decades of prohibition, 2016 could be the year governments around the world admit that the war on drugs has failed. Or, just as easily, they co ... |
| The UNGASS outcome document: Diplomacy or denialism? [13.03.2016] | Drug policy expertise and impacted communities from around the world express serious concerns about the preparations and already-drafted outcomes for ... |
| Unravelling the human cost of global drug policy [13.03.2016] | The international drug control system has caused much greater damage than the substances it targets. Gross human rights violations have been committe ... |
| Three leaders from Latin America call for decriminalizing drug use [11.03.2016] | Outdated drug policies around the world have resulted in soaring drug-related violence, overstretched criminal justice systems, runaway corruption an ... |
| Striving for system-wide coherence [11.03.2016] | In April 2016, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) will convene its 30th Special Session (or ‘UNGASS’) – and the third to focus on the ‘w ... |
| Top US international drug official signals green light for countries to decriminalize [09.03.2016] | William Brownfield, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, gave a qualified go-ahead for countries to ... |
| UNGASS 2016: Prospects for Treaty Reform and UN System-Wide Coherence on Drug Policy [29.02.2016] | This paper explores key lessons from the 1990 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Drug Abuse (UNGASS 1990) and the 1998 Special ... |
| Lift the Ban! [22.02.2016] | In my experience, good public policy is best shaped by the dispassionate analysis of what in practice has worked, or not. Policy based on common assu ... |
| UNGASS 2016: What prospect for change? [18.02.2016] | With the UN’s drug control policy setting bathed in opaque diplomatic light, civil society advocates are left looking for the subtleties of language ... |
| Elite ‘African Group’ in Vienna undermines AU drug policy [06.02.2016] | South Africa’s mission in Vienna submitted a minority reactionary “African Group” (AG) position on drug policy to the United Nations, despite the Afr ... |
| West Africa: Forging a West African consensus on UNGASS [31.01.2016] | A news story cited Ghana's Deputy Superintendent of Police, David Selom Hukportie, as bemoaning the formidable challenges he faces trying to destroy ... |
| A new deal on drugs is as vital as a climate change accord [30.01.2016] | Standing on the podium at the United Nations in New York in June 1998, Kofi Annan declared: "It is time for all nations to say 'yes' to the challenge ... |
| 2015 the Year of Ganja in Jamaica [29.01.2016] | The issue of ganja played very prominently in Jamaica in 2015 with some advocates trumpeting the dawn of a “new green golden kingdom”, while some opp ... |
| Opium poppy farmers reject crop ban, war on drugs [25.01.2016] | Opium poppy farmers from Myanmar attending an international conference on “prohibited plants” have rejected a ban on growing their crops and urged an ... |
| A war on drugs? We'd be better off paying for a war on hunger [20.01.2016] | Global drug control policies, much like tax or climate change, impact heavily on many areas of development and inevitably on efforts to meet many of ... |
| The Heemskerk Declaration [20.01.2016] | In a global meeting small scale farmers of cannabis, coca and opium from 14 countries in Heemskerk, the Netherlands, discussed their contribution to ... |
| UNGASS 2016: Change to global drug policy unlikely [22.12.2015] | Next year's United Nation's General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem is, by UN standards, set to be controversial. But it is unlike ... |
| As UNGASS approaches, yet another devastating UN critique of the drug war is published [08.12.2015] | A significant positive outcome has already emerged from next year’s UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs in the form of much more di ... |
| Supporting the process towards UNGASS 2016 [21.11.2015] | The Cartagena Dialogue – organized by four governments and four civil society organizations, with the participation of 79 official and non-government ... |
| UNGASS 2016: Background memo on the proposal to establish an expert advisory group [14.11.2015] | Significant changes in the global drug policy landscape are shaping up in the UNGASS 2016 preparations, in the direction of more humane and proportio ... |
| New UN think-tank report: What comes after the War on Drugs? [02.11.2015] | The UN's own thinktank, the United Nations University (UNU), published a report entitled What Comes After the War on Drugs? that argues that UNGASS 2 ... |
| IDPC response to the 2014 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board [07.10.2015] | The advent of regulated cannabis markets in Uruguay and some US states over the past few years has constituted a profound shock to the international ... |
| Oregon marijuana legalization challenges US drug policy [02.10.2015] | Oregon joined Colorado and Washington in implementing a commercial cannabis market. Alaska, which also legalized marijuana through a ballot initiativ ... |
| Nick Clegg launches campaign to persuade EU leaders to back reform of drug laws [01.10.2015] | Nick Clegg is launching a campaign to persuade EU leaders to back global reform of drugs laws, warning that the current punitive approach has failed ... |
| IDPC recommendations for the "ZERO DRAFT" of the UNGASS outcome document [22.07.2015] | Preparations are gathering pace for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs, to be held on the 19th to 21st April 2016 ... |
| Civil society urges EU leadership on drug policy ahead of UNGASS [20.07.2015] | The Budapest Group is a network of European NGOs working in the field of drug policy reform, including Harm Reduction International, the Global Drug ... |
| The 2015 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [14.06.2015] | The international drug control regime is facing the most profound challenge of its existence. Member states have for some time been experimenting wit ... |
| Lib Dem leadership candidate Norman Lamb calls for cannabis legalisation [31.05.2015] | The Liberal Democrat leadership candidate Norman Lamb has called for the UK to legalise, regulate and tax the sale of cannabis. The former care minis ... |
| Latin America rethinks drug policies [26.05.2015] | During the 1980s and 1990s, as the United States battled the scourge of cocaine throughout the hemisphere, Washington did most of the talking. Latin ... |
| Minister Golding addresses UN Debate on international drug policy [07.05.2015] | Senator Mark Golding, minister of justice, participated in a plenary session with several UN member states at the United Nations in a High Level Them ... |
| The wars don’t work [01.05.2015] | In the West few politicians have been ready to admit the drug war’s failure—even as they quietly moderate their policy. They need to be honest with t ... |
| Improving global drug policy: Comparative perspectives and UNGASS 2016 [28.04.2015] | As the world prepares for the 2016 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 2016), an increasing numb ... |
| UNGASS 2016: Prospects for Treaty Reform and UN System-Wide Coherence on Drug Policy [28.04.2015] | This paper explores key lessons from the 1990 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Drug Abuse (UNGASS 1990) and the 1998 Special ... |
| 2016: The UN's year to take on drugs [26.04.2015] | Global disagreement over drug policies provides an important opportunity to reconsider the effectiveness of existing counternarcotics policies, addre ... |
| Caribbean Drug Policy Dialogue 2015 San Juan (Puerto Rico) [24.04.2015] | Focusing on the Caribbean region, the thirteenth Informal Drug Policy Dialogue in Latin America, was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from 23-25 April ... |
| The Road to UNGASS 2016 [14.04.2015] | On 19th to 21st April 2016, there will be a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) held in New York, dedicated to the issue of drug ... |
| Video report of the UN drug debate [08.04.2015] | This March, our video advocacy team attended the 58th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the largest drug policy gathering in the world, to ... |
| "There must be no new thinking and no new ideas" [01.04.2015] | "There must be no new thinking and no new ideas." This statement is not necessarily one that you might expect from an intergovernmental forum on a ho ... |
| Another UN agency savages the drug war [16.03.2015] | The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN agency charged with developing strategies to reduce global poverty, has strongly criticised c ... |
| The UN’s prohibitionism impedes drug policy reform [16.03.2015] | The U.N. commission on drugs insists that the ultimate goal of its prohibitionist drug policy is to ensure “the mental and physical health and welfar ... |
| Conditioning Alternative Development to previous eradication should be abandoned [12.03.2015] | Conditioning Alternative Development (AD) participation to previous eradication should be abandoned as a policy, since it has proved to be counterpro ... |
| TNI calls for a wide-ranging and open debate that considers all options at UNGASS 2016 [11.03.2015] | Just over one year away from the 2016 UNGASS, denying the reality that the drug policy landscape has fundamentally changed and that tensions with the ... |
| Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP) [09.03.2015] | The undersigned, constituting "The Steering Committee", acting on behalf of small farmers (families) of controlled plants, from all geographical regi ... |
| UN special envoy: ‘The current international control system for drugs has failed’ [03.03.2015] | Marijuana will become an unavoidable policy issue for health watchdogs in coming years. Growing scientific evidence about the medical benefits and a ... |
| The United Nations General Assembly Special Session on drugs in 2016 [16.02.2015] | In April 2016, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to evaluate drug policy in a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGAS ... |
| The road to the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs in 2016 [27.01.2015] | UN forums in recent years have witnessed more and more governments expressing their frustrations with the failing global war on drugs. This failure g ... |
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