Items tagged with coca
| Item title | Description |
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| Submission to the House of Commons Select Committee on the cocaine trade [12.06.2009] | The attached summary report addresses the myths that surround the coca leaf and is presented to the Committee members in order to allow them to make ... |
| Coca Myths [01.06.2009] | The coca leaf has been used and misused for many ends, each of them suiting different interests and agendas. Even its very name has been appropriated ... |
| Coca Myths Summary [01.06.2009] | The coca leaf has been used and misused for many ends, each of them suiting different interests and agendas. Even its very name has been appropriated ... |
| Myth 1: Coca and nutrition [01.06.2009] | The use of coca is symptomatic of hunger and malnutrition / Coca is a solution to the world’s hunger problem While for some people, “the use of coca ... |
| Myth 2: Coca and alkaloids [01.06.2009] | Cocaine can easily be extracted from coca leaves / Coca leaves contain no cocaine To some people, “cocaine can easily be extracted from coca leaves”, ... |
| Myth 3: Coca and addiction [01.06.2009] | The use of coca produces a form of drug dependence / The use of coca will cure dependence on cocaine and crack To some people, “the use of coca produ ... |
| Myth 4: Coca and the Environment [01.06.2009] | Coca cultivation is devastating the rainforest / Coca is an ideal crop for poor soils in the tropics and will be cultivated everywhere once declared ... |
| Myth 5: Coca and society [01.06.2009] | Coca farmers should be identified as drug traffickers / Coca farmers only grow coca to satisfy traditional indigenous uses It is in the social realm ... |
| INCB elections [20.05.2009] | On Monday the 18th, at the UN-ECOSOC session in New York, elections took place for six members of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB). Th ... |
| Proposal of amendments by Bolivia to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [15.05.2009] | The Secretary-General has received a note verbale dated 12 March 2009 from the Permanent Mission of Bolivia to the United Nations, attached to which ... |
| Vienna Consensus on Drug Policy Cracks [07.04.2009] | A clear divide in drug control approaches became apparent at the end of the High Level Segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on March 11- ... |
| Law on Coca Flour [24.03.2009] | In Peru, the commercialization of coca leaf powder or coca flour has seen a huge increase in popularity in the market for healthy food, with a fairly ... |
| Round Table on Alternative Development [15.03.2009] | The last of the four ‘round tables’ of the high-level segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs was devoted to the broad issue of Countering illici ... |
| "Let Me Chew My Coca Leaves" [15.03.2009] | The first day at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs was marked by the announcement of President Evo Morales of Bolivia that he would start the process ... |
| Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 [15.03.2009] | This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 2 ... |
| Let Me Chew My Coca Leaves [14.03.2009] | In 1961, the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs placed the coca leaf in the same category with cocaine — thus promoting the false not ... |
| Letter to the UN Secretary General [12.03.2009] | On March 12, 2009, the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, sent a letter sent a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, re ... |
| Bolivia calls on Obama to back coca campaign [11.03.2009] | President Barack Obama should recognize traditional uses of the coca leaf because not all production becomes cocaine, Bolivian President Evo Morales ... |
| Speech Morales at the CND [11.03.2009] | The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) filmed the speech of the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, at the high level UN meeting in Vienna on Marc ... |
| Rewriting history [01.06.2008] | The world today is not any closer to achieving the ten-year targets set by the 1998 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs. These goal ... |
| The Coca Debate [25.05.2008] | In March 2008, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) provoked outrage in Bolivia by calling for the elimination of traditional uses of coc ... |
| European Parliament in favour of licit use of coca leaf [23.05.2008] | The European Parliament calls on the Commission and the Member States to explore ways of promoting substances derived from coca leaves for lawful use. ... |
| European Parliament in favour of licit use of coca leaf [28.04.2008] | On April 23, 2008, the European Parliament approved a report by MEP Giusto Catania on the Green Paper on the role of civil society in drugs policy in ... |
| Coca Leaf: The Heritage of the Andes [10.04.2008] | The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) released a new short film in their excellent series on the proceedings of the 2008 Commission on Narcotic D ... |
| Coca Leaf: The Heritage of the Andes [08.04.2008] | A film by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) |
| Coca Leaf Defended by Growers, Scientists… and Taxi Drivers [24.03.2008] | "They will have to kill us to make us stop planting coca," Bolivian coca grower Luis Mamani told IPS in response to a call from the International Nar ... |
| Fighting for the Right to Chew Coca [17.03.2008] | The Bolivian delegation was the first to issue what it called an "energetic protest" against the INCB's recommendations during the agency's annual me ... |
| Long life to coca leaf! [13.03.2008] | With a “Causachun coca! (quechua), viva la coca. Long life to coca leaf!” the vice -minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia ended his intervention on ... |
| Intervention of Bolivia at the 2008 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [12.03.2008] | With a "Causachun coca! (quechua), viva la coca. Long life to coca leaf!" the vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia Hugo Fernandez ended his in ... |
| Statement about the coca leaf [11.03.2008] | Statement in support of the Bolivian announcement to ask for the un-scheduling of the coca leaf from the list controlled substances of the 1961 UN Si ... |
| A real outrage against our culture [10.03.2008] | Foreign Affairs minister David Choquehuanca announced that Bolivia is going to ask for a rectification of the 2007 Annual Report of the International ... |
| Bolivia to defend coca leaf at UN [10.03.2008] | Bolivian officials at a conference on illegal drugs in Vienna are planning to ask the UN to remove the coca plant from its list of dangerous drugs. T ... |
| Blessing in disguise? [09.03.2008] | Yesterday, President Evo Morales of Bolivia sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon rejecting the recommendations of the International Narc ... |
| Letter Evo Morales to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon [08.03.2008] | In response to the 2007 annual report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), which called on countries to 'abolish or prohibit coca lea ... |
| Our studies will confirm the certainty of our assertions [08.03.2008] | Recently, TNI put online the Report of the Commission of Enquiry on the Coca Leaf, that was published in 1950 and provided the rationale for the incl ... |
| UN needs to chew on its drug policy [07.03.2008] | In an article in the National Post from Canada, journalist Steve Edwards mocks the wisdom of the INCBs recent recommendation to 'abolish or prohibit ... |
| Peru and Bolivia revolt against the INCB [06.03.2008] | Cocaleros in Bolivia threathen to occupy the installations of the United Nations in the country as well as those of Coca Cola in El Alto in protest a ... |
| UN needs to chew on its drug policy [06.03.2008] | We don’t ban beer and spirits because some folk abuse alcohol. Yet as part of its bid to stamp out illicit cocaine consumption, the United Nations dr ... |
| Abolishing Coca Leaf Consumption? [05.03.2008] | The Transnational Institute condemns the decision by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in their 2007 annual report released today, whi ... |
| INCB: controversial statements on coca leaf [05.03.2008] | Read here the full text of the controversial statements on coca leaf included in this year's Annual Report of the INCB. Some highlights: > "The Board ... |
| INCB & Coca [05.03.2008] | When the INCB Annual Report for 2007 – under embargo until March 5 – started to circulate about a month ago, I was in complete shock after reading th ... |
| Response to INCB's Annual Report 2007 [02.03.2008] | The 2007 INCB Annual Report shows some signs of a more balanced approach by the INCB to the policy dilemmas around proportionality of sentences and h ... |
| The resolution of ambiguities regarding coca [01.03.2008] | The international legal status of the coca leaf and of its traditional uses in the Andes has long been ambiguous and contested. While the Internation ... |
| The International Narcotics Control Board [29.02.2008] | This briefing paper brings together material and analysis from a number of recent reports that raise questions about the role and functioning of the ... |
| SCOPE: Proposal by the UNDCP, 1 December 1997 [24.02.2008] | FOR PARTICIPANTS ONLY E/CN.7/1997/PC/CRP.11 1 December 1997 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH FOR COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS ACTING AS PREPARATORY BODY FOR THE SPE ... |
| Super coca? [20.02.2008] | The French news agency AFP recently reported the discovery of a new species of coca plant. According to the report, which was repeated by various med ... |
| Resources on coca [01.02.2008] | Interesting articles on the culture and tradition of coca |
| De-vilifying the coca leaf [09.03.2007] | Venezuelan funding of new coca leaf processing factories in Bolivia has renewed discussion on the future of licit coca products and US and Bolivian r ... |
| Sending the wrong message [01.03.2007] | The INCB, rather than making harsh judgements based on a selective choice of outdated treaty articles, should use its mandate more constructively and ... |
| Just Say Coca [30.10.2006] | Bolivian president Evo Morales recently implored the United Nations to give the coca leaf a new life. A former coca farmer himself, Morales asked the ... |
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