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Here are some references to TNI staff, fellows or advisors from other media outlets. Please note that as many of our network also work for other organisations, we do not assume to take credit for all of these media "hits."

Colombia Takes Step Towards Drug Decriminalization
In Sight - Organized Crime in the Americas

The rate of overcrowding in Colombia's prisons reached nearly 39 percent in 2009, much of it due to the excess number of small-time drug offenders, according to the WOLA and TNI report.

Drugged out
Time Magazine

Even after proven to be uneffective, drug policies in South East Asia are still focussed on window dressing and not actually solving problems. 

Bolivia Steps Up Campaign at U.N. to Legalise Coca Leaf
IPS News

Is coca a dangerous drug that should be tightly regulated, or an essential part of Andean indigenous people's cultural and medicinal heritage? Or perhaps both?

Book Review of “Whose Crisis, Whose Future?” by Susan George
The Broker

Susan George, (2010), “Whose Crisis, Whose Future? Towards a Greener, Fairer, Richer World”, Polity Press, Cambridge. The book is published as well in French and Spanish, see details below.

Here is a book that attempts to explain how high finances direct the economy and how they bring about the enormously unequal world we live in. As I read, I had the feeling I was invited to a party, a party for well-meaning adults with a clear sense of social responsibility.

Bolivia right to reject Cancun climate farce
Green Left

Bolivia alone stood up to the world at December’s UN climate conference in Cancun, Mexico; daring to reject the flawed agreement endorsed by 191 other nations.

Bolivia energises campaign to legalise coca leaf
The Guardian

Bolivia and the US are set for more battles over the coca leaf as Evo Morales attempts to overturn the legality of the indigenous plant.

A model country with double standards
Radio Nederland Wereldomroep

The Dutch government oversight on transshipments of arms is not as strict as international rules require.

US objects to Bolivia bid for licit coca-chewing
Associated Press

The United States will file a formal objection to Bolivia's proposal to end the ban on coca leaf-chewing specified by a half-century-old U.N. treaty.

Deadly Chile prison fire puts heat on Latin America's crowded jails
The Christian Science Monitor

The Chile fire, started by rioting prisoners, has drawn fresh attention to the poor conditions, lack of guards, and gang violence rampant in Latin American jails.

The significance of Myanmar’s 2010 election
New Mandala

TNI mentioned as background reading material for understanding Burmese elections.

The limits of Chinese expansionism
Asia Times

China's fast growing capital expansion within South East Asia is raising concerns about landgrabs and exploitative practices, especially as it is often aligned with support for authoritarian regimes such as Burma.

 

TNI-WOLA report: Latin America drug laws 'worsen prison overcrowding'
BBC

Drug laws in eight Latin American countries have exacerbated their prison overcrowding problems and failed to curb trafficking.

 

The colour of money
Bangkok Post

Despite a questionable human rights record, foreign governments and companies are investing billions of dollars to get their hands on the country's natural resources

Suu Kyi’s release far from certain
The Star (Malaysia) / Straits Times (Singapore)

The Burmese elections will be the most defining moment in Burmese politics for a generation, but Aung San Suu Kyi's rumoured possibility of release is still uncertain.

Bolivia Breaks with U.S. Policy, But Not the War on Drugs
Change.org

Bolivia needs to do much more to establish a progressive dialogue on its harsh judicial and sentencing drug law; report from TNI on the countrie's drug-related prison overload.

Crime and Drugs -- To legalize or not to legalize
Latin American Herald Tribune

Nations throughout Latin America and the world are debating whether to legalize drugs or not. For anyone who has seen the violent effects of illegal drugs -- decapitated bodies, drive-by shootings, car bombs -- a thorough and honest exploration of alternatives is long overdue.

Myanmar elections mute ethnic voices
Asia Times

Two reports by TNI published earlier this month have raised critical issues surrounding the upcoming elections in Burma, expected sometime later in 2010. Below, a piece from the Asia Times looks at these in the context of the country's complex political situation.

To Kill, But Not Pollute
Inter Press Service

European Union subsidies earmarked for reducing air travel's contribution to climate change may help develop deadlier warplanes than those already found in the world's arsenals, Brussels officials have admitted.

TNI contributor, former UN official Denis Halliday returns home after Israel's Flotilla Raid
Irish Times

Denis Halliday spent two days in an Israeli jail after the MV Rachel Corrie, part of the aid flotilla which sought to break the illegal blockade of Gaza, was intercepted in international waters by the Israeli military on Saturday, 5 June 2010.

Book Review: An India that can say yes: a climate-responsible development agenda
Economic and Political Weekly

This review of Praful Bidwai's An India that can say yes: a climate responsible agenda for Copenhagen and beyond, considers his critique of Indian climate policy and recommendations for more ambitious action from India to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change, while defending North-South equity.

Download the full review as a .pdf