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.
Martin Jelsma,
estimó que "las restricciones impuestas por la Convención Única sobre la
hoja de coca y sus usos tradicionales, en ausencia de cualquier
evidencia de peligrosidad, fueron un error histórico y una violación de
los derechos de los indígenas".
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?
La Convención Única de Naciones Unidas sobre Estupefacientes, piedra angular de la política internacional contra las drogas, cumple este año su 50 aniversario con un número cada vez mayor de países cuestionando de alguna forma su eficacia.
La ley es tan incongruente que una persona que porta unos pocos gramos de marihuana puede acabar cumpliendo una sentencia igual que una persona acusada de transportar varios kilos de cocaína.
El secretario general de la Junta Nacional de Drogas (JND), Milton Romani, junto a expertos, participó en una conferencia titulada "Políticas de drogas: debate mundial" con el apoyo de Washington Office on Latin América (WOLA) y de TNI.
The final count after closure of the January 31 deadline to file objections to the Bolivian amendment to remove the ban on coca leaf chewing in the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, comes to 17 objections: the US, UK, Sweden, Canada, Denmark, Germany, the Russian Federation, Japan, Singapore, Slovakia, Estonia, France, Italy, Bulgaria, Latvia, Malaysia and Mexico. That means that only 17 of the 184 countries that are Party to the treaty (as amended by the 1972 Protocol) have filed an objection. We call on them to still reconsider and withdraw their objection before the issue appears on the UN agenda for a decision.
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.
EE.UU. se opondrá esta semana a la petición de Bolivia para que la ONU despenalice la ancestral costumbre de masticar las hojas de coca en los países andinos.
On 17 December 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian man set himself on fire in protest at a police beating after he resisted attempts to confiscate the cart that he used to sell vegetables and fruit. His desperate action prompted a wave of protests - first in Tunisia and then across the whole of the Middle East - as public anger at pervasive corruption, police brutality, unemployment, neoliberal economic policies, rising inequality and persistent human rights abuses exploded to the fore.
This section explores the underlying causes of the uprisings, debates the military intervention in Libya, examines the ongoing constraints on democratic movements, and looks to highlight the implications of changes in the Middle East for Western powers and their main ally, Israel who have supported autocratic dictatorships to facilitate ready access to oil, support the 'War on Terror' and act as a repressive buffer for migration into Europe.
The current law prohibits drug use and punishes possession for personal use with internment and forced treatment. Domestically, a legal market for coca leaf has always existed and Bolivia is trying to change the international legal regime for the coca leaf.
In Peru, coca leaf consumption has never been criminalized and a state-controlled licensing system exists for its cultivation and distribution. With regard to other drugs, in 1982, Decree 122 established that dependent users shall no longer be punished for possession of drugs for immediate personal consumption, but only when a medical certification is provided to prove the dependency.
El TNI albergó la Red Internacional para la Abolición de las Bases Extranjeras a principios de la década de 2000, hasta que se agotaron los fondos. Sin embargo, los movimientos contra las bases extranjeras en todo el mundo continúan luchando activamente contra la ocupación de sus tierras. En esta colección se reúnen algunos estudios y recursos relevantes.
