Tag: INCB
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Argentina and Mexico clash with the INCB
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna in March 2010 was a rather uneventful event. One of the most controversial issues were the comments of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB ...
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In drug war, failed old ideas never die
Friday, 26 February 2010WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Here's a stern warning to the U.S. states of Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermo ...
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INCB Interferes with Countries' Sovereignty
Wednesday, 24 February 2010The UN's International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) 2009 annual report criticizes Argentina, Brazil and Mexico for moving to decriminalize the possession of drugs for personal consumption, cautioni ...
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Coca chewing out of the UN convention?
Friday, 21 August 2009On July 30th the Bolivian proposal to amend the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs by deleting the obligation to abolish the chewingof coca leaf was on the ECOSOC agenda (UN Social and Economic ...
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INCB elections
Wednesday, 20 May 2009On Monday the 18th, at the UN-ECOSOC session in New York, elections took place for six members of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB). The Board consists of only 13 members, so almost hal ...
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Horse trading at the UN
Tuesday, 19 May 2009NGOs in the drug policy field have criticised the outcome of the recent elections to the United Nation’s International Narcotic Control Board (INCB) because the process of trading votes between membe ...
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Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007
Sunday, 15 March 2009This report 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, which ...
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Que la JIFE se ponga a tono con los años que corren
Friday, 27 February 2009El debate sobre las drogas ha tomado recientemente un giro muy interesante. La Comisión Latinoamericana sobre Drogas y Democracia –de la cual hacen parte expresidentes latinoamericanos y expertos int ...
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Trees for Ecstasy
Wednesday, 04 February 2009Many people believe that ecstasy is merely a synthetic drug that is manufactured solely with chemicals, so-called precursors. However, the main raw material for ecstasy, safrole, is extracted from va ...
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UNGASS review reaches critical stage
Monday, 03 November 2008Transnational Institute, November 2008 The review of the objectives and action plans agreed at the 1998 UNGASS on Drugs has reached a critical stage. Following the thematic debate at the 2008 Commiss ...
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INCB out of step with the United Nations
Tuesday, 03 June 2008The United Nations should overhaul the operations of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the quasi judicial body that monitors states’ implementation of their obligations under the UN d ...
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The Coca Debate
Sunday, 25 May 2008In March 2008, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) provoked outrage in Bolivia by calling for the elimination of traditional uses of coca, such as chewing coca leaves and drinking coca t ...
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Tatyana Dmitrieva
Monday, 19 May 2008Tatyana Dmitrieva is a current member of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) and its Vice-President. She is Russia’s former minister of Health and she is, since 2005, the Chief Consultat ...
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Coca Leaf: The Heritage of the Andes
Thursday, 10 April 2008The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) released a new short film in their excellent series on the proceedings of the 2008 Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND). In "Coca Leaf: The Heritage of the And ...
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Cannabis resolutions at the 2008 CND
Saturday, 29 March 2008At the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in March 2008 in Vienna three resolutions on cannabis were tabled. They were all clearly against 'lenient policies' in some countries depenalising or decrimi ...
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Coca Leaf Defended by Growers, Scientists… and Taxi Drivers
Monday, 24 March 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 Narcotics Control Board (INCB) to prohibit traditiona ...
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Fighting for the Right to Chew Coca
Monday, 17 March 2008The Bolivian delegation was the first to issue what it called an "energetic protest" against the INCB's recommendations during the agency's annual meeting this week in Vienna. It also put forward a p ...
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Long life to coca leaf!
Thursday, 13 March 2008With a “Causachun coca! (quechua), viva la coca. Long life to coca leaf!” the vice -minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia ended his intervention on Monday at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND). ...
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Intervention of Bolivia at the 2008 Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Wednesday, 12 March 2008With a "Causachun coca! (quechua), viva la coca. Long life to coca leaf!" the vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia Hugo Fernandez ended his intervention at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CN ...
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Statement about the coca leaf
Tuesday, 11 March 2008Statement 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 Single Convention. Transnational Institute / Interna ...
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A real outrage against our culture
Monday, 10 March 2008Foreign Affairs minister David Choquehuanca announced that Bolivia is going to ask for a rectification of the 2007 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) that called for th ...
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Blessing in disguise?
Sunday, 09 March 2008Yesterday, President Evo Morales of Bolivia sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon rejecting the recommendations of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) to "abolish or prohibit ...
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The INCB on Harm Reduction
Friday, 07 March 2008As in years past, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) highlights the problem of HIV epidemics fuelled by injection drug use in its 2007 annual report. The phrase harm reduction is used i ...
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UN needs to chew on its drug policy
Friday, 07 March 2008In an article in the National Post from Canada, journalist Steve Edwards mocks the wisdom of the INCBs recent recommendation to 'abolish or prohibit coca leaf chewing and the manufacture of coca tea' ...
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Peru and Bolivia revolt against the INCB
Thursday, 06 March 2008Cocaleros 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 against the decision by the International Narcotics ...
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UN needs to chew on its drug policy
Thursday, 06 March 2008We 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 drug watchdog is telling millions of indigenous Sout ...
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Abolishing Coca Leaf Consumption?
Wednesday, 05 March 2008The Transnational Institute condemns the decision by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in their 2007 annual report released today, which calls on countries to ‘abolish or prohibit coca ...
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INCB: controversial statements on coca leaf
Wednesday, 05 March 2008Read 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 calls upon the Governments of Bolivia and Peru to ...
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INCB & Coca
Wednesday, 05 March 2008When 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 the worst ever paragraphs on coca written in UN hist ...
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Recalibrating the Regime
Tuesday, 04 March 2008This new report, co-authored by the HR2 team, looks at the tensions between some aspects of the global drug control system and international human rights law. The report highlights that, despite nume ...
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Response to INCB's Annual Report 2007
Sunday, 02 March 2008The 2007 INCB Annual Report shows some signs of a more balanced approach by the INCB to the policy dilemmas around proportionality of sentences and harm reduction. While this is welcome, the Board st ...
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The INCB and cannabis
Sunday, 02 March 2008Where legal ambiguities and disagreement persist around cannabis policies, the INCB continues to make narrow legal interpretations of what is allowed under the UN drug conventions and repeatedly expr ...
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UNGASS ten years on
Saturday, 01 March 2008Weaknesses in the United Nations drug control system have often been identified, related to the functioning of the key organs – the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), International Narcotics Contr ...
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The International Narcotics Control Board
Friday, 29 February 2008This briefing paper brings together material and analysis from a number of recent reports that raise questions about the role and functioning of the INCB. The IDPC analysis is that the Board mixes a ...
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UN Drug Conventions Reform
Sunday, 24 February 2008TNI briefing for the 2003 UNGASS mid-term review March 2003 The backbone of the United Nations drug control system consists of three UN Drug Conventions. The prohibition of potentially harmful substa ...
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Closed to Reason
Thursday, 21 February 2008
A report published in March 2007 by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and the Open Society Institute Public Health Program, strongly criticises the INCB. It accuses the Board of becoming 'an obstac ...
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Unique in International Relations?
Thursday, 21 February 2008
In a new report released in February 2008 by the International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA), the INCB comes in for some heavy criticism for being overly secretive, closed to external dialogue wi ...
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Flexibility of treaty provisions
Wednesday, 20 February 2008In a confidential and authoritative memorandum to the INCB, UNODC legal experts argue that most harm reduction measures are in fact acceptable under the conventions. According to the Legal Affairs Se ...
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UN: conflicting views on harm reduction
Monday, 18 February 2008Conflicting views and policies within the UN system on harm reduction have become a major concern. Consistency in messages is crucial especially where it concerns joint global programmes such as the ...
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Sending the wrong message
Thursday, 01 March 2007
The INCB, rather than making harsh judgements based on a selective choice of outdated treaty articles, should use its mandate more constructively and help draw attention to the inherent contradiction ...
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Drugs in the UN system
Tuesday, 01 April 2003
The "international community" presented an apparent unanimity in its endorsement of prohibitive drug control at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs in 1998. The real ...
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The Erratic Crusade of the INCB
Tuesday, 18 February 2003
In the Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2002 that was released on February 26, the president of the Board, Dr. Philip O. Emafo from Nigeria, launches a strong attack against gr ...
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European Cannabis Policies Under Attack
Monday, 01 April 2002A strong attack against the European practice of 'leniency' regarding cannabis use and possession took place at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) session (11-15 March, 2002) in Vi ...
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