Items tagged with INCB
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Argentina and Mexico clash with the INCB [31.03.2010] | The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna in March 2010 was a rather uneventful event. One of the most controversial issues were the comments ... |
In drug war, failed old ideas never die [26.02.2010] | WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Here's a stern warning to the U.S. states of Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, N ... |
INCB Interferes with Countries' Sovereignty [24.02.2010] | The UN's International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) 2009 annual report criticizes Argentina, Brazil and Mexico for moving to decriminalize the poss ... |
Coca chewing out of the UN convention? [21.08.2009] | On July 30th the Bolivian proposal to amend the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs by deleting the obligation to abolish the chewingof coca lea ... |
INCB elections [20.05.2009] | 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 [19.05.2009] | NGOs in the drug policy field have criticised the outcome of the recent elections to the United Nation’s International Narcotic Control Board (INCB) ... |
Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 [15.03.2009] | This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 2 ... |
Que la JIFE se ponga a tono con los años que corren [27.02.2009] | El debate sobre las drogas ha tomado recientemente un giro muy interesante. La Comisión Latinoamericana sobre Drogas y Democracia –de la cual hacen p ... |
Trees for Ecstasy [04.02.2009] | Many people believe that ecstasy is merely a synthetic drug that is manufactured solely with chemicals, so-called precursors. However, the main raw m ... |
UNGASS review reaches critical stage [03.11.2008] | Transnational Institute, November 2008 The review of the objectives and action plans agreed at the 1998 UNGASS on Drugs has reached a critical stage. ... |
INCB out of step with the United Nations [03.06.2008] | The United Nations should overhaul the operations of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the quasi judicial body that monitors states’ ... |
The Coca Debate [25.05.2008] | In March 2008, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) provoked outrage in Bolivia by calling for the elimination of traditional uses of coc ... |
Tatyana Dmitrieva [19.05.2008] | Tatyana Dmitrieva is a current member of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) and its Vice-President. She is Russia’s former minister of ... |
Coca Leaf: The Heritage of the Andes [10.04.2008] | The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) released a new short film in their excellent series on the proceedings of the 2008 Commission on Narcotic D ... |
Cannabis resolutions at the 2008 CND [29.03.2008] | At the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in March 2008 in Vienna three resolutions on cannabis were tabled. They were all clearly against 'lenient p ... |
Coca Leaf Defended by Growers, Scientists… and Taxi Drivers [24.03.2008] | "They will have to kill us to make us stop planting coca," Bolivian coca grower Luis Mamani told IPS in response to a call from the International Nar ... |
Fighting for the Right to Chew Coca [17.03.2008] | The Bolivian delegation was the first to issue what it called an "energetic protest" against the INCB's recommendations during the agency's annual me ... |
Long life to coca leaf! [13.03.2008] | With a “Causachun coca! (quechua), viva la coca. Long life to coca leaf!” the vice -minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia ended his intervention on ... |
Intervention of Bolivia at the 2008 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [12.03.2008] | With a "Causachun coca! (quechua), viva la coca. Long life to coca leaf!" the vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia Hugo Fernandez ended his in ... |
Statement about the coca leaf [11.03.2008] | 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 Si ... |
A real outrage against our culture [10.03.2008] | Foreign Affairs minister David Choquehuanca announced that Bolivia is going to ask for a rectification of the 2007 Annual Report of the International ... |
Blessing in disguise? [09.03.2008] | Yesterday, President Evo Morales of Bolivia sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon rejecting the recommendations of the International Narc ... |
The INCB on Harm Reduction [07.03.2008] | As in years past, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) highlights the problem of HIV epidemics fuelled by injection drug use in its 2007 ... |
UN needs to chew on its drug policy [07.03.2008] | In an article in the National Post from Canada, journalist Steve Edwards mocks the wisdom of the INCBs recent recommendation to 'abolish or prohibit ... |
Peru and Bolivia revolt against the INCB [06.03.2008] | Cocaleros in Bolivia threathen to occupy the installations of the United Nations in the country as well as those of Coca Cola in El Alto in protest a ... |
UN needs to chew on its drug policy [06.03.2008] | We don’t ban beer and spirits because some folk abuse alcohol. Yet as part of its bid to stamp out illicit cocaine consumption, the United Nations dr ... |
Abolishing Coca Leaf Consumption? [05.03.2008] | The Transnational Institute condemns the decision by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in their 2007 annual report released today, whi ... |
INCB: controversial statements on coca leaf [05.03.2008] | Read 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 ... |
INCB & Coca [05.03.2008] | When the INCB Annual Report for 2007 – under embargo until March 5 – started to circulate about a month ago, I was in complete shock after reading th ... |
Recalibrating the Regime [04.03.2008] | This new report, co-authored by the HR2 team, looks at the tensions between some aspects of the global drug control system and international human ri ... |
Response to INCB's Annual Report 2007 [02.03.2008] | The 2007 INCB Annual Report shows some signs of a more balanced approach by the INCB to the policy dilemmas around proportionality of sentences and h ... |
The INCB and cannabis [02.03.2008] | Where legal ambiguities and disagreement persist around cannabis policies, the INCB continues to make narrow legal interpretations of what is allowed ... |
UNGASS ten years on [01.03.2008] | Weaknesses in the United Nations drug control system have often been identified, related to the functioning of the key organs – the UN Office on Drug ... |
The International Narcotics Control Board [29.02.2008] | This briefing paper brings together material and analysis from a number of recent reports that raise questions about the role and functioning of the ... |
UN Drug Conventions Reform [24.02.2008] | TNI briefing for the 2003 UNGASS mid-term review March 2003 The backbone of the United Nations drug control system consists of three UN Drug Conventi ... |
Closed to Reason [21.02.2008] | A report published in March 2007 by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and the Open Society Institute Public Health Program, strongly criticises the ... |
Unique in International Relations? [21.02.2008] | In a new report released in February 2008 by the International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA), the INCB comes in for some heavy criticism for bein ... |
Flexibility of treaty provisions [20.02.2008] | In a confidential and authoritative memorandum to the INCB, UNODC legal experts argue that most harm reduction measures are in fact acceptable under ... |
UN: conflicting views on harm reduction [18.02.2008] | Conflicting views and policies within the UN system on harm reduction have become a major concern. Consistency in messages is crucial especially wher ... |
Sending the wrong message [01.03.2007] | The INCB, rather than making harsh judgements based on a selective choice of outdated treaty articles, should use its mandate more constructively and ... |
Drugs in the UN system [01.04.2003] | The "international community" presented an apparent unanimity in its endorsement of prohibitive drug control at the United Nations General Assembly S ... |
The Erratic Crusade of the INCB [18.02.2003] | In the Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2002 that was released on February 26, the president of the Board, Dr. Philip O. Emafo ... |
European Cannabis Policies Under Attack [01.04.2002] | A strong attack against the European practice of 'leniency' regarding cannabis use and possession took place at the United Nations Commission on Narc ... |
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