Items tagged with coca
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| Evo does not convince the INCB on coca chewing [16.12.2011] | The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, yesterday asked inspectors of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) of the United Nations to suppor ... |
| Drug Policy in the Andes [15.12.2011] | Fifty years after signing the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and 40 years after the U.S. government declared a "war on drugs," ma ... |
| Expert Seminar on Herbal Stimulants and Legal Highs [30.10.2011] | A grey area has emerged between what is legal and what is not as states struggle with how to respond to the many new synthetic compounds emerging ont ... |
| Peru's new anti-drug czar in delicate dance with U.S. [18.10.2011] | Peru's leftist government has scored some early victories in its bid to overhaul anti-drugs policy in the world's top coca grower while keeping the U ... |
| Cocaine's becoming king in Peru [24.09.2011] | For years, Peru had a simple policy to fight cocaine: destroy the coca plants that were the key ingredient in the drug. It did not go so well. That h ... |
| La Bolivia sotto Inquisizione [20.07.2011] | Martin Jelsma (Transnational Institute, Amsterdam) racconta per la rubrica di Fuoriluogo sul Manifesto del 20 luglio 2011 la crociata contro la Boliv ... |
| Coca is not Cocaine [19.07.2011] | On June 22nd under instruction from President Evo Morales (an ex-coca grower and leader of Bolivia’s powerful coca federation), Bolivia’s congress vo ... |
| Bolivia drops out of UN drug pact to protect its coca chewers [18.07.2011] | Bolivia has presented a denunciation to the UN that seals its resignation from the United Nations 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which ban ... |
| Bolivia and the international drug control regime [15.07.2011] | Bolivia has denounced the International Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which bans the traditional practice of chewing coca leaf. Adam talks with Marti ... |
| Bolivia’s legal reconciliation with the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [11.07.2011] | On 29 June 2011, the Bolivian government denounced the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs as amended by the 1972 Protocol, indicating its inten ... |
| Treaty guardians in distress [11.07.2011] | Just when you start to see glimmers of hope that the troubled UN drug control system is opening up for a change process, its principal guardian the I ... |
| INCB Regrets Bolivia’s Denunciation of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [05.07.2011] | The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) regrets the decision by the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to denounce the Single ... |
| Bolivia formally renounces UN narcotics convention because it penalizes coca-leaf chewing [30.06.2011] | Bolivia's government has informed the United Nations it is renouncing the world body's anti-drug convention because it classifies coca leaf as an ill ... |
| Bolivia Withdraws from the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [30.06.2011] | The Bolivian government formally notified the UN Secretary General of its withdrawal from the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (as amended by ... |
| Bolivia’s concurrent drug control and other international legal commitments [30.06.2011] | Bolivia’s denunciation of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is not just about one treaty. It is about finding an appropriate balance betwe ... |
| Bolivia’s denunciation of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [30.06.2011] | Bolivia initially proposed an amendment to article 49, deleting the therein contained obligation that “coca leaf chewing must be abolished”. The arti ... |
| Bolivia to denounce and rejoin the 1961 UN Single Convention with respect to coca leaf chewing [24.06.2011] | Press conference by H.E. Pablo Solon, Permanent Representative of the Plurinational State of Bolivia on the theme, "denounce and rejoin the Single Co ... |
| Bolivia to withdraw from drugs convention over coca classification [24.06.2011] | Bolivia is set to withdraw from an international narcotics convention in protest at its classification of coca leaves as an illegal drug. President E ... |
| Bolivia Steps Up Campaign at U.N. to Legalise Coca Leaf [30.04.2011] | Is coca a dangerous drug that should be tightly regulated, or an essential part of Andean indigenous people's cultural and medicinal heritage? Or per ... |
| The 2011 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [25.03.2011] | The 54th Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) was the first for the new Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Mr. ... |
| TNI Side Event at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs [24.03.2011] | The year 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (CND), the bedrock of the current UN drug control system. TN ... |
| Lifting the ban on coca chewing [18.03.2011] | January 31 marked the close of the 18-month period during which countries could submit objections to Bolivia’s proposal to remove from the 1961 Singl ... |
| INCB Report: mixed thoughts [02.03.2011] | Today the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) released its annual report. I’ve been following the Board for many, many years now, have often ... |
| Objections and support for Bolivia's coca amendment [01.03.2011] | After the closure of the January 31, 2011, deadline to file objections to the Bolivian amendment to remove the ban on coca leaf chewing in the 1961 U ... |
| Seventeen objections to abolishing the ban on coca chewing [07.02.2011] | The final count after closure of the January 31 deadline to file objections to the Bolivian amendment to remove the ban on coca leaf chewing in the 1 ... |
| D-Day for Bolivia’s coca chewing amendment [31.01.2011] | Today is the deadline for countries to submit objections to Bolivia’s proposed amendment to remove the ban on coca leaf chewing in the 1961 UN Single ... |
| Bolivia fights objections to coca-leaf chewing [28.01.2011] | Bolivia will ask the United Nations to organize a conference on coca leaf-chewing if the U.S., Britain and Sweden don't withdraw their objections to ... |
| Press Conference by Bolivia on Amendment to Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [28.01.2011] | Bolivia would continue its campaign to remove from a United Nations convention a ban on coca leaf chewing and take its case to the Economic and Socia ... |
| The U.S. Can Still Correct its Position on Bolivia's UN Coca Chewing Amendment [28.01.2011] | The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the Andean Information Network (AIN), and more than 200 other concerned organizations and individuals ... |
| Coca-chewing Bolivians press for end to UN ban [26.01.2011] | Bolivians chewed coca leaves in demonstrations around the country Wednesday to push for a change in a 1961 UN convention to remove a ban on a practic ... |
| Bolivia launches coca leaf diplomatic offensive [21.01.2011] | Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca is on a European tour in a bid to drum up support for taking coca off a UN treaty on banned drugs. Spanish foreig ... |
| Let them chew coca [20.01.2011] | The constraint on fresh thinking was on shameful display this week. A UN convention, reaffirmed in 2009, imposes a blanket prohibition on drugs. This ... |
| The coca leaf: Storm in an Andean teacup [20.01.2011] | The United States’ State Department’s website recommends coca tea for altitude sickness, and its La Paz embassy has been known to serve it to visitor ... |
| Bolivia energises campaign to legalise coca leaf [19.01.2011] | Bolivia and the US set for more battles over the coca leaf as Evo Morales attempts to overturn legality of the indigenous plant. US diplomats are due ... |
| US objects to Bolivia bid for licit coca-chewing [18.01.2011] | The United States will file a formal objection Wednesday to Bolivia's proposal to end the ban on coca leaf-chewing specified by a half-century-old U. ... |
| Spain will not object to the Bolivian proposal to remove coca chewing from UN convention on drugs [18.01.2011] | Spain will not put forward any objection to the Bolivian proposal to remove the obligation to abolish coca chewing from the 1961 UN Single Convention ... |
| The U.S. Moves to Block Bolivia’s Request to Eliminate U.N. Ban on Coca Leaf Chewing [18.01.2011] | The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) have learned that the United States is moving to oppose, as soon ... |
| Diplomatic games to oppose lifting unjust ban on coca chewing [16.01.2011] | According to the government of Bolivia, the only three countries that did file a formal objection to the amendment of Bolivia to abolish the ban on c ... |
| U.S. Renews Anachronistic Campaign to Stamp Out Coca Leaf Chewing [14.01.2011] | Just one month after President Obama announced that the U.S. would finally sign the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, U.S. official ... |
| Correcting a historical error [13.01.2011] | In 2009, the Bolivian government requested that the United Nations amend the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. The proposed amendment woul ... |
| Opposing the Coca Chewing Amendment? [13.01.2011] | In March 2009, Bolivia's President Evo Morales chewed a coca leaf at the UN High Level session on drugs in Vienna. He announced he would seek the abo ... |
| Aide-Memoire on the Bolivian Proposal To Amend Article 49 of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [13.01.2011] | In 2009, the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales Ayma, sent a letter to the General Secretary of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, in which the Governme ... |
| Coca chewing out of the UN convention? [01.03.2010] | This briefing offers some background on the issue to amend the UN Single Convention towards a more coherent and realistic stance on the ancient tradi ... |
| US waves white flag in disastrous 'war on drugs' [16.01.2010] | After 40 years of defeat and failure, America's "war on drugs" is being buried in the same fashion as it was born – amid bloodshed, confusion, corrup ... |
| Coca chewing out of the UN convention? [21.08.2009] | On July 30th the Bolivian proposal to amend the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs by deleting the obligation to abolish the chewingof coca lea ... |
| Stepping away from the darkness [19.08.2009] | The Drug War has failed. After more than 20 years of tirelessly pushing for the same policy, the efforts have not been able to bring the expanding il ... |
| Drug policy reform in practice [14.08.2009] | The academic journal Nueva Sociedad recently released an issue to promote the debate in Latin America on drug policy reform. TNI contributed with the ... |
| Amendment against anti-coca chewing provisions [21.07.2009] | In March 2009, Evo Morales sent his formal request to the Secretary General Bang Ki Moon to delete articles 49(c) and 49(e) of the 1961 UN Single Con ... |
| Coca leaf should be allowed in the UK [05.07.2009] | On 12 June 2009, TNI submited a memorandum to the 'House of Commons Select Committee on the cocaine trade' to allow the coca leaf in its natural form ... |
| Towards a world market for coca leaf? [26.06.2009] | When we think of people like Pope Paul VI, the Queen of Spain or Britain’s Princess Anne, most of us do not think of them as criminals. But that is w ... |
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