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13 July 2010

IDPC - Руководство по наркополитике

«Руководство по наркополитике» было подготовлено в 2009 году на основе результатов исследований и консультаций экспертов IDPC. Цель «Руководства» – предоставить нашим региональным и национальным партнерам информацию, которую они смогут использовать для анализа национальной наркополитики и соответствующих программ и эффективного взаимодействия с политическими деятелями при их разработке и/или совершенствовании. Информация «Руководства» будет регулярно обновляться, чтобы отразить данные новейших исследований и примеры новых успешных практик в области наркополитики.

8 July 2010

Praised Russian prevention programme faces loss of funds

In 2006, then-President Putin pledged increased support for HIV/AIDS programmes, but the government recently declined to fund some key efforts.

30 June 2010

The public health and social impacts of drug market enforcement

This article presents alternatives to traditional targeted enforcement approaches that may have less negative health and social consequences was originally published in 2005 in the International Journal of Drug Policy. It is now available in English, Chinese, Farsi, French, and Russian.

30 June 2010

Rapid assessment and response: Preparation for the scale-up of comprehensive harm reduction services in Thailand

The aim of the investigation was to learn more about injection drug use in order to inform the development of harm reduction services in Thailand.

25 June 2010

Global Commission on HIV and the Law - UNAIDS/UNDP Information Note

The Global Commission on HIV and the Law was established in 2010 to develop actionable, evidence-informed and human rights-based recommendations to enable effective HIV responses and realize the human rights of people living and most vulnerable to HIV.

24 June 2010

Far worse than Watergate - Widening scandal regarding Colombia’s intelligence agency

This report reveals that the Watergate-like scandal in Colombia is even more shocking than initially reported, with the presidential intelligence agency, DAS, not only spying, but also carrying out dirty tricks and even death threats on major players in Colombia's democracy

24 June 2010

The UNODC coca cultivation study for Bolivia shows minimal increase in coca crop in sharp contrast with US statistics

The one percent increase in coca cultivation reported by UNODC for 2009 contrasts sharply with the 2010 U.S. International Narcotics Control Strategy report, which cited a 9.38 percent increase from 32,000 to 35,000 hectares for 2009, which they inexplicably rounded up to ten percent.

24 June 2010

The illicit drug market and its possible regulation - Act upon the market to fight the illicit drug industry

This report is a summary of the research carried out by the Italian Council for the Social Sciences.

24 June 2010

Policing drug users in Russia: risk, fear, and structural violence

The authors undertook qualitative interviews with 209 injecting drug users in three Russian cities to explore IDU's accounts of HIV and health risk. Policing practices, and how these violate health and human rights, emerged as a primary theme.

24 June 2010

Viva Rio launches "Drugs and culture: new perspectives"

The book covers diverse aspects related to drugs, from the history of drug use in the West to the consumption of drugs as a cultural phenomenon.

24 June 2010

Intercambios launches "Contributions to a new drug policy"

This book gathers the presentations given during the V and VI National Conferences on Drug Policy in Buenos Aires and aims to identify policies that protect public health and human rights. Published by Intercambios Civil Association and the School of Social Sciences of Buenos Aires University.

24 June 2010

OSI makes drug policy publications available in five languages

In an effort to make drug policy publications accessible to a wider audience, the Open Society Institute's Global Drug Policy Program (GDPp) has decided to select five article and have them translated into Chinese, Farsi, French and Russian.