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10/21/2005

DRUGS: UNODC TO OPEN OFFICE IN BEIJING, THE DANGEROUS LIAISONS OF PROHIBITIONISTS

Chinese Government Enthusiastic about Future Partnerships, Signs Memorandum of Intent

According to the UN Information Service, on 19 October, the Government of China, represented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), and the United Nations
10/13/2005

Afghanistan: When Counternarcotics Undermines Counterterrorism


The Washington Quarterly
2005 Autumn, Vol. 28, No. 4; Pg. 55

The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
by Vanda Felbab-Brown is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at
10/06/2005

Not what the doctor ordered. An alternative use for opium

AN ATMOSPHERE of despair prevails in the village of Shinwari, close to Nangahar province's border with Pakistan. This year's internationally-funded $860m blitz on Afghanistan's opium industry produced a 96% drop in the poppy hectarage in the province
10/03/2005

AFGHANISTAN: WHILE IN KABUL INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS DISCUSS LEGALIZATION OF OPIUM, UNODC CALLS AFGHAN HEROIN A GROWING THREAT ACROSS EUROPE

According to the United Nations Information Service, UNODC Executive Director, Antonio Maria Costa, in opening a Forum on "Drug Control in the Baltic Region: New Challenges" in Vilnius stated that "the Baltic region, as well as the Nordic countries a
08/30/2005

AFGHANISTAN: HARSH PUNISHMENTS OR FORWARD THINKING PRAGMATIC POLICIES?

According to a Report on Afghanistan issued by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on 29 August, opium cultivation has decreased by 21%, down from 131,000 ha in 2004 to 103,000 ha in 2005. UNODC Director Costa attributed the change to the Govern
08/26/2005

Feature: Western Hemisphere Anti-Prohibitionists Set to Gather in Buenos Aires

Argentina's capital city will be the location of a three-day conference early next month bringing together anti-prohibitionists from across the hemisphere in an effort to strengthen a nascent movement to end the war on drugs. At the same time, confer
07/13/2005

Let a Thousand Licensed Poppies Bloom

EVEN as Afghanistan's immense opium harvest feeds lawlessness and instability, finances terrorism and fuels heroin addiction, the developing world is experiencing a severe shortage of opium-derived pain medications, according to the World Health Orga
07/07/2005

DRUGS: PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION BY MARCO PANNELLA AND EMMA BONINO, (ALLIANCE OF LIBERAL-DEMOCRATS OF EUROPE) TO THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL AND COMMISSION ON METHADONE IN THE UKRAINE

Text of the Parliamentary question by Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino, (Alliance of Liberal-Democrats of Europe) to the European Council and Commission on Methadone in the Ukraine


Whereas:
- The joint-ministerial Committee on Drug Contr
06/29/2005

DRUGS: IAL WRITES TO UKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER ON METHADONE

New York, 29 June 2005

to the Urgent attention of:

H. E. Mrs. Julia Timoshenko
Prime Minister
Fax: +380 44 254 0770
Cc:
Mr. Mykola Tomenko
Deputy Prime Minister
Fax: +380 44 254 0584
Mrs. Nina Korpacheva
Commis
04/21/2005

Seminar of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Brussels, 21 April 2005
Speaking notes by Marco Perduca

Last November, together with my colleagues of the Transnational Radical Party and the International Antiprohibitionist League, I had the privilege to consult with MEP Marco Pannella (A
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