Publications

Towards revision of the UN drug control conventions

Briefing
Dave Bewley-Taylor
March 2012

Recent years have seen a growing unwillingness among increasing numbers of States parties to fully adhere to a strictly prohibitionist reading of the three principal UN drug control conventions.

The Limits of Latitude

Briefing
Dave Bewley-Taylor
March 2012

A growing number of nations are developing policies that shift away from the prohibition-oriented failed approach to drugs control. Ultimately however nations will need to reform the overall UN based global drug control framework of which practically all nations are a part.

The Global Water Grab: A Primer

Primer
March 2012

Water grabbing refers to situations where powerful actors take control of valuable water resources  for their own benefit, depriving local communities whose livelihoods often depend on these resources and ecosystems.

Counter-terrorism, ‘policy laundering’ and the FATF

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Report
March 2012

A lack of democratic control, oversight and accountability of the FATF has allowed for regulations that circumvent concerns about human rights, proportionality and effectiveness.

Financing Dispossession

Report
February 2012

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.

Ending Burma’s Conflict Cycle?

Briefing
February 2012

Peace does not just involve the government and ethnic armed opposition groups, but involves all of Burma's citizens.

15 years of the Asia-Europe People’s Forum

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Report
February 2012

Review of 15 years of Asia European Peoples' Forum reveals its crucial role as the only permanent network and forum linking Asian and European movements and organisations, but also calls for reform to strengthen its work in the future.

 

 

State of Corporate Power 2012

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Report
January 2012

Who are the global 1%? What companies do they run? How do they escape accountability? Check out TNI's powerful infographic displays that expose the social and environmental costs of global corporate power.

Chewing over Khat prohibition

Briefing
Axel Klein
January 2012

Khat has been consumed for thousands of years in the highlands of Eastern Africa and Southern Arabia.Strict bans on khat introduced in Europe ostensibly for the protection of immigrant communities have had severe unintended negative consequences.

The Politics of Climate change and the Global crisis

Book
January 2012

In his book Bidwai addresses the impacts of climate change and the politics of the international climate negotiations; and second, lndia as an example of an 'emerging economy' major polluter, which can potentially both aid or obstruct the fight against climate change.

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