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9 October 2008

UN Secretary General Report - International cooperation against the world drug problem:progress acheived

International cooperation against the world drug problem: progress achieved in meeting the goals and targets set out in the Political Declaration adopted by the General Assembly at its twentieth special session.

7 October 2008

Measuring the costs of drug misuse in the UK

Evidence reported reveals that 38% of those arrested in 2006-07 for offences of theft tested positive for heroin and/or crack cocaine.

25 September 2008

IDPC Advocacy Note: The European Union Drug Strategy 2005-2012: The Mid-Term Evaluation

In 2005, the 27 member states of the European Union agreed a drug strategy that runs from 2005 to 2012, with a mid-term review of progress in 2008. This advocacy note gives the IDPC perspective on this progress review, and makes recommendations for the action plan for the remaining 4 years of the strategy.

25 September 2008

UNGASS News, Issue 3

The third of our regular "UNGASS News" updates, keeping the network up to speed with developments in the review process, reports on the Demand Reduction Expert Working Group and the 2008 Global ATS Report from UNODC.

25 September 2008

TNI Debate Paper Number 16 - Withdrawal Symptoms: Changes in the Southeast Asian Drugs Market

TNI have released a new report entitled "Withdrawal Symptoms: Changes in the Southeast Asian Drugs Market”. The studies findings are that the significant decline in opium production in Burma and Laos, which has been heralded as a major success for international drug control policy, is having a devastating effect on farmers and is triggering worrying consequences for drug users.

25 September 2008

Human Rights, Health and Harm Reduction: States' Amnesia and Parallel Universes

IHRA's 'HR2' (Harm Reduction and Human Rights) team have released a new report entitled "Human Rights, Health and Harm Reduction: States' Amnesia and Parallel Universes”.

25 September 2008

Beckley Briefing Paper Number 16: Ten Years of Plan Colombia: An Analytic Assessment

This Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme briefing paper presents a critical assessment of Plan Colombia. Originally proposed as a peace programme, this soon became a military strategy aimed at weakening the link between illicit drugs and insurgency.

25 September 2008

IDPC Response to the UNODC 2008 World Drug Report

This IDPC response describes and critiques the positions taken in the Report, and attempts to articulate the nature of the future challenges faced by member states as they prepare for the review meeting in March 2009.

23 September 2008

The Evaluation of the 2005-2008 Action Plan

There have been two primary sources of information for the evaluation of progress against the set of objectives and actions listed in the action plan - the latest Annual Report of the European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction..

23 September 2008

The European Commission New Draft Action Plan for 2009-2012

The European Commission has circulated a draft of the next action plan to member states for their comments This document is due to be debated by member states' representatives at two meetings of the Horizontal Working Group on Drugs (HDG) held, respectively, on 29 September, and 13/14 October 2008.

21 September 2008

TNI Drug Policy Briefing Number 26: Rewriting History: A Response to the 2008 World Drug Report

In the new 2008 World Drug Report the UNODC is trying to hide failures behind a bad history lesson.

21 September 2008

Beyond 2008 NGO Forum

In partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and led by the Vienna Non Governmental Organisations Committee on Narcotic Drugs (VNGOC) 300 NGO delegates, from all regions of the world, met to debate and construct a consensus on policy recommendations and on mechanisms for NGOs and the government to work together.