The second Informal Drug Policy Dialogue was co-hosted by the Department for Drug Strategic Affairs of the Hungarian Ministry of Youth, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities. The two-day dialogue was focused on three themes: (1) harm reduction developments at the regional and UN level; (2) alternative development: dilemmas around coca and opium reduction efforts; and (3) preparations for the 2008 UNGASS review. Participants had the opportunity to exchange information and make comments from their own perspective on developments in these policy areas. The aim was to come to workable suggestions and ideas that could be used in the ongoing debate.
As in 2004 on the isle of Crete, the meeting had an informal nature. The two-day dialogue was focused on three themes: (1) harm reduction developments at the regional and UN level; (2) alternative development: dilemmas around coca and opium reduction efforts; and (3) preparations for the 2008 UNGASS review.
The second Informal Drug Policy Dialogue was co-hosted by the Department for Drug Strategic Affairs of the Hungarian Ministry of Youth, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities. The two-day dialogue was focused on three themes: (1) harm reduction developments at the regional and UN level; (2) alternative development: dilemmas around coca and opium reduction efforts; and (3) preparations for the 2008 UNGASS review.
Fiona Dove, Hans Berkhuizen, Ronald Gijsbertsen, Danielle Hirsch, Ruud van den Hurk, Ineke Zeldenrust
26 March 2013
Article
One of the wishes of the Fair, Green and Global Alliance[1] (FGG) members was recently fulfilled by the Rutte II Cabinet: the trade and global development portfolios have been brought under a single Minister, the Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation.
Just few days left to the inauguration of the new building of the ECB. Great participation is expected from all over Europe: social movements, activists, migrants, precarious and industry workers, trade-unions and parties will come to Frankfurt to say no to austerity and contest the authority of ECB and the other EU institutions.
La segunda reunión del Diálogo Informal sobre Políticas de Drogas fue auspiciada por el Departamento sobre Asuntos Estratégicos en materia de Drogas del Ministerio de Juventud, Familia, Asuntos Sociales, e Igualdad de Oportunidades. El diálogo de dos días se centró en tres temas: (1) desarrollos de la reducción del daño a nivel regional y de la ONU; (2) desarrollo alternativo: dilemas relacionados con los esfuerzos de reducción de la coca y del opio; (3) preparaciones para la revisión de UNGASS 2008. Los participantes tuvieron la oportunidad de intercambiar información y compartir comentarios sobre su visión de los cambios acontecidos en estas áreas de políticas. El objetivo era llegar a ideas y sugerencias factibles que pudieran emplearse en el actual debate.
Graham Boyd, Sarah Trumble, Lanae Erickson Hatalsky
11 April 2014
Report
Despite a federal prohibition on marijuana possession, sale, and use, Colorado and Washington recently became the first states to enact laws legalizing the recreational use of this drug. Although the Obama Administration has taken steps to attempt to deal with this evolving situation, we believe the status quo is untenable and Congress must act to provide certainty and a framework for these states moving forward. This report explains the problem and offers a solution.
It had been billed as a summit to push for universal access to water, but attending the Budapest Water Summit held last week felt like grasping at a mirage of water in a desert. The slogans and appearance were attractive, but held no prospect of delivering the human right to water for all.
Die Regierung Orbán betont, sie wolle die großflächigen Agrarstrukturen aufbrechen und lokalen Landwirten Ackerbesitz ermöglichen - auch nach der Liberalisierung.
Recently disclosed US State Department and CIA records cast a new light on the Letelier assassination, revealing that the US had extensive awareness of a secret assassination operation and suggesting that US officials called off actions that might have stopped it.
The Taiwaneese government should impose the energy and greenhouse gas taxes as early as possible, instead of promoting carbon trade, say environmental protection organizations.
Reading Arroyo the riot act would not be a gesture of benevolence on
the part of Washington. It is one that would serve the US’s current
interests as Obama discerns them.
La segunda reunión del Diálogo Informal sobre Políticas de Drogas fue auspiciada por el Departamento sobre Asuntos Estratégicos en materia de Drogas del Ministerio de Juventud, Familia, Asuntos Sociales, e Igualdad de Oportunidades. El diálogo de dos días se centró en tres temas: (1) desarrollos de la reducción del daño a nivel regional y de la ONU; (2) desarrollo alternativo: dilemas relacionados con los esfuerzos de reducción de la coca y del opio; (3) preparaciones para la revisión de UNGASS 2008. Los participantes tuvieron la oportunidad de intercambiar información y compartir comentarios sobre su visión de los cambios acontecidos en estas áreas de políticas. El objetivo era llegar a ideas y sugerencias factibles que pudieran emplearse en el actual debate.
