UN can’t agree on abolition of death for drug offences
by Brigid Pike
Ministers and government representatives attending the high-level segment of the 57th Session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), held in Vienna on 13–14 March 2014, agreed a Joint Ministerial Statement (E/CN.7/2014/L.15). The contents are outlined in ‘Towards UNGASS 2016’ elsewhere in this issue of Drugnet Ireland.
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UN body passes drug resolutions
by Brigid Pike
The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), the UN’s drug policy-making body, met in Vienna between 13 and 21 March 2014 for its 57th Session. For the first two days Ministers and representatives of member state governments undertook a high-level review of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem. The conclusions of this review are described in ‘Towards UNGASS 2016’ elsewhere in this issue of Drugnet Ireland.
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Regional drug strategies across the world
by Brigid Pike
In March 2014 the EMCDDA released a ‘paper’ giving a comparative analysis of regional drug strategies across the world.1 The paper explores the drug strategies and action plans adopted over the last five years by six intergovernmental organisations, involving 148 countries in four continents. The purpose of the EMCDDA paper is to inform decision-makers, professionals and researchers working on international drug policy about the way in which countries in the same region have decided to strategically approach drug-related security, social and health problems.
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Towards UNGASS 2016
by Brigid Pike
Ministers and government representatives attending the high-level segment of the 57th Session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, held in Vienna on 13–14 March 2014, agreed a Joint Ministerial Statement (E/CN.7/2014/L.15). This statement contains the participants’ conclusions with regard to progress in implementing the Political Declaration and Action Plan on the world drug problem, agreed in 2009. It will inform the preparations for and deliberations at the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the world drug problem in two years’ time.
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