Special Reports

Financing Dispossession

February 2012
Kevin Woods
Tom Kramer

China’s opium crop substitution programme has very little to do with providing mechanisms to decrease reliance on poppy cultivation or provide alternative livelihoods for ex-poppy growers. Financing dispossession is not development.

Addicted to punishment

January 2013
Jorge Parra Norato, Rodrigo Uprimny & Diana Esther Guzmán

This report reveals the average maximum sentence for a drug offense rose from 34 years in prison in 1950 to 141 years today and in three countries surveyed, drug trafficking was subject to longer maximum and minimum penalties than murder.

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Systems Overload: Drug Laws and Prisons in Latin America

December 2010

Study reveals alarming pattern in imprisonment for drug crimes in Latin America

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Burma: Neither War Nor Peace

July 2009

Whilst a twenty year ceasefire still holds, there is unlikely to be peace and democracy in Burma without a political settlement that addresses ethnic minority needs and goals.

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Withdrawal Symptoms in the Golden Triangle

January 2009

Drug control agencies have called the significant decline in opium production in Southeast Asia over the past decade a 'success story'. This report casts serious doubts on the claim noting that Southeast Asia suffers from a variety of 'withdrawal symptoms' that leave little reason for optimism.

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10 years review

July 2008
Drugs and Democracy

This report summarises the lessons of TNI's 10 years of work in the field of international drug policy, emphasising drug controls that respect human rights: the rights of farmers caught in the illicit economy to a life in dignity; decriminalisation of drug use; and the promotion of harm reduction approaches where they are proven to save lives.