Items tagged with 1998 UNGASS
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| UN Common Position on drug policy [01.12.2019] | In November 2018, the UN System CEB adopted the ‘UN system common position supporting the implementation of the international drug control policy thr ... |
| Edging forward [30.09.2017] | Diplomatic processes at the United Nations are notoriously slow and difficult, perhaps increasingly so in a modern world of multi-polar geopolitics a ... |
| The UN’s war on drugs is a failure [02.04.2016] | A policy of prohibition has put the drugs trade in the hands of criminals and led to suffering for millions. 2008 was the year that the world didn’t ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| "Impossible" to end drug trade, says Calderón [23.11.2012] | Ending the consumption and the trafficking of illegal drugs is “impossible”, according to Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s outgoing president. In an intervi ... |
| The drug war comes full circle [03.06.2011] | The most striking name on the list is that of Kofi Annan. As secretary general of the United Nations in 1998, Kofi Annan presided over a special Unite ... |
| Political Declaration already ridiculed [08.03.2009] | News about the disappointing content of the Political Declaration to be adopted at the High Level Segment of the 52nd Commission on Narcotic Drugs (C ... |
| Refreshing Costa's memory [08.06.2008] | 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 ... |
| Rewriting history [01.06.2008] | The world today is not any closer to achieving the ten-year targets set by the 1998 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs. These goal ... |
| SCOPE: Proposal by the UNDCP, 1 December 1997 [24.02.2008] | FOR PARTICIPANTS ONLY E/CN.7/1997/PC/CRP.11 1 December 1997 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH FOR COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS ACTING AS PREPARATORY BODY FOR THE SPE ... |
| Global Trends. Lessons from Vienna [20.06.2003] | Martin Jelsma analysed the 2003 UNGASS mid-term review and drew some important conclusions for the 10-year review in 2008: "Alliances have to be cons ... |
| TNI: Cracks in the Vienna consensus [17.04.2003] | In a first analysis of the outcomes of the 2003 UNGASS mid-term review in April 2003, TNI concluded that the outcomes were very disappointing. The ab ... |
| 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 ... |
| Breaking the Impasse [01.07.2002] | The past decade has seen an increasing polarisation between divergent trends in global drug policies. On the one hand, there has been an escalation i ... |
| Alternative Development and Drug Control [08.01.2002] | What can Alternative Development interventions realistically hope to achieve, given the growing demand for illicit drugs and the continuing prevalenc ... |
| New Possibilities for Change in International Drug Control [01.12.2001] | The Executive Director of the Office of Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP), Pino Arlacchi, will resign mid-2002. Mr. Arlacchi's position becam ... |
| A Lost Opportunity [15.06.1998] | United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS) New York, 8-10 June 1998 The "United Nations General Assembly Spec ... |
| Cheerleaders Against Drugs [08.06.1998] | Manhattan is filled this week with world leaders attending a well-intentioned but misdirected United Nations conference on drugs. With drugs more ple ... |
| Full scope on the War on Drugs [30.04.1998] | An 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 ... |
| Background briefing on UNGASS [24.03.1998] | Background on the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drug Control Martin Jelsma TNI Briefing, March 1998 The "Special Session of the ... |
| SCOPE: Strategy for Coca and Opium Poppy Elimination [14.03.1998] | UNDCPs 1998 plan to eradicate the cultivation of both coca and opium poppy by the year 2008 was a rare opportunity to re-think current drugs efforts. ... |
| UNGASS Resolutions on the world drug problem [22.02.1998] | Resolutions and declarations adopted at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS) in New York, June 8-10 ... |
| Strategy for Coca and Opium Poppy Elimination [04.02.1998] | An International Strategy to Eliminate the Illicit Cultivation of Coca Bush and Opium Poppy (SCOPE) Commission on narcotic drugs acting as preparator ... |
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