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27 September 2012

US-led "war on drugs" questioned at U.N.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who leaves office on December 1 after spending much of his presidency locked in a bloody battle with drug-smuggling gangs, called on the United Nations to lead a global debate over a less "prohibitionist" approach to drugs.
25 September 2012

Lawsuit filed against government of Canada for failing to protect the health of federal prisoners

The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Prisoners with PASAN, CATIE, the CAAN and Steven Simons, a former federal prisoner, launched a lawsuit against the Government of Canada over its failure to protect the health of people in prison through its ongoing refusal to implement clean needle and syringe programs to prevent the spread of HIV and hepatitis C virus in federal institutions.
22 September 2012

Washington in Wonderland: United States Slams Bolivian Drug Control Efforts Lauded by UN

The lack of transparency about how U.S. officials calculate cocaine production estimates, combined with the contention that Bolivia is producing more cocaine than Colombia—despite having far less land under coca cultivation than Colombia or Peru— undermines U.S. credibility and isolates Washington from a region calling for an open debate on drug policy alternatives.
21 September 2012

Rise up – Peer education programme in Mauritius

Youth RISE has begun a peer education programme in Mauritius as part of our RISE UP! project, partnering with SAFIRE, an organisation based in Mauritius working with street children.
20 September 2012

Are Thai drug policies really working?

On Monday 17th September, the Ministry of Justice, alongside the Transnational Institute and the International Drug Policy Consortium, held a high-level meeting to review the country’s legal response to drug use.
17 September 2012

Tanzania: Safe syringes for people who use drugs

The government will start issuing clean medical injection equipment, including hypodermic syringes, to people who use drugs to help protect them from getting infected by the HIV virus.
14 September 2012

The Dutch 2012 election result and the coffeeshops

Under pressure to form a stable government able to tackle the financial crisis and European integration issues, winning political parties will need to find a common ground on the coffee shop issue.