In March 2008, a year long ‘period of global reflection’ on the 1998 UN General Assembly Special Session
(UNGASS) on the World Drug Problem started. What have been the results? What space was there be for civil society to
participate in the different stages of the process? What were the key issues
on the table? What kind of improvements in the functioning of the UN drug
control system have been achieved?
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Recent publications IDPC on the 2009 CND |
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A series of reports by the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) on the 2009 Commission on Narcotic Drugs and its High Level Segment, held in Vienna in March 2009.
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Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 |
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 A Report on Global Illicit Drugs Markets 1998-2007, commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 2007 – the primary target of the 1998 UNGASS, aimed to significantly reduce the global illicit drugs problem by 2008 through international cooperation and measures in the field of drug supply and drug demand reduction.
Broadly speaking the situation has improved a little in some of the richer countries, while for others it worsened, and for some of those it worsened sharply and substantially', among which are a few large developing or transitional countries. Given the limitations of the data, a fair judgment is that the problem became somewhat more severe.
A report on Global Illicit Drugs Markets 1998-2007
Editors: Peter Reuter (RAND) and Franz Trautmann (Trimbos Institute)
European Commission, March 2009
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Alternative development should be unconditional |
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Statement of the Transnational Institute
Commission on Narcotic Drugs 52nd Session, High-level Segment
Round Table D - 12 March 2009, 2.30-5.30 pm
Countering illicit drug traffic and supply, and alternative development.
In his statement Martin Jelsma of TNI expressed the disappointment with the agreed texts on alternative development in the Political Declaration and Plan of Action at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) dedicated to the 1998 UNGASS review. No consensus could be reached on the issue of drug control conditionality in development assistance, despite the outcomes of expert evaluations that recommended to "not make development assistance conditional on reductions in illicit drug crop cultivation”, and to "ensure that eradication is not undertaken until small-farmer households have adopted viable and sustainable livelihoods and that interventions are properly sequenced."
He further referred to the outcomes of the first World Forum of farmers of coca, cannabis and opium poppy from Latin America, Africa and Asia.
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Coherence Not Denial |
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 Alone among UN agencies, CND continues to block support for harm reduction
A Statement from Harm Reduction Networks to the High Level Segment of the 52nd session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Vienna, 11—12 March 2009
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Out of ideas and out of touch |
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United Nations drug policy review: Out of ideas and out of touch
Press release
International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC)
March 9, 2009
As political leaders from around the world gather in Vienna on 11-12 March to review the last decade of international drug control, and set a framework for the next ten years with the signing of a Political Declaration, any hopes for progress or a new pragmatism in approaches to the world drug problem are fading fast.
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International Drug Policy: Animated Report 2009 |
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Produced by an Oscar-winning studio for the Global Drug Policy Program of the Open Society Institute, International Drug Policy: Animated Report 2009 highlights some of the disastrous effects of drug policy in recent years and proposes solutions for a way forward.
March 2009
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UNGASS News 7 |
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February 2009
A brief update to provide an overview of progress on the UNGASS review
process, drawing attention to significant developments and keeping our
network of colleagues around the world abreast of the rapidly changing
situation.
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International AIDS Society calls for Harm Reduction |
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25 February 2009 The International AIDS Society (IAS) wrote a letter to the Chair of the Commission on Narcotics Drugs (CND) to express concern about the absence of language on harm reduction in the draft outcome documents to be adopted by the 52nd session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in March 2009.
The International AIDS Society is world’s leading independent association of HIV professionals with over 11,000 members from 183 countries; and the custodian of the International AIDS Conference to be held in Vienna in 2010.
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