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Dutch Remain Firm on Harm Reduction |
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Monday 2 February 2009
We will be aiming for no less than securing the inclusion of harm reduction in the political declaration by which member states determine international drugs policy, the Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation Bert Koenders told the Donor Conference on Harm Reduction that took place on January 28-30, 2009, in Amsterdam. We will do the same when, in 2010, the honour of chairing the UNAIDS governing board falls to the Netherlands. You can count on that.
Michel Sidibé the new Executive Director of UNAIDS also was
very clear about his support to harm reduction measures in his speech to the
conference: "Only universal access to harm reduction can deliver the
results we need."
Minister Koenders speech to the Donor Conference on Harm Reduction
Michel Sidibé: Why we need harm reduction to reach universal access goals.
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Europe and US split over drugs policy at UN |
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Friday 30 January 2009
The fight over the introduction of harm reduction in the Political Declaration of the UNGASS review has now reached the newspapers. A report by Reuters said that the 'US and Europe split over drugs policy'.
"US negotiators are trying to push through anti-drug programmes that were promoted during the former Bush administration but which are no longer advocated by President Barack Obama," participants at the talks in Vienna told Reuters.
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Stop US Delegation in Vienna |
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Susan Rice
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Thursday 29 January 2009
The US delegation in Vienna continues to block any inclusion of harm reduction in the new Political Declaration to be approved in March 2009 at the high-level segment of the 52nd session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs. Three members of the US Congress have written a letter to the new US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, to call for new instructions to be given to the delegation.
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US Harm Reduction Coalition calls for change |
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Nelson Mandela, showing his support for people living with HIV / AIDS |
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Tuesday 27 January 2009
Allan Clear of the Harm Reduction Coalition made an urgent appeal on the Obama White House to intervene in the current negotiations about the Political Declaration on the 1998 UNGASS review that has to be adopted in March 2009 at the High Level Segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND). For more than two million people living with HIV, mainly in Africa, hopes are high for a change in Obama's foreign policy.
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Harm reduction as part of the solution |
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Friday 23 January 2009
It is still not clear what the drug policy of President Obama will be. He has not appointed his drug czar. Many high-ranking Bush Administration officials have yet to leave office and are still setting the agenda on drug policy.
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