EMBARRASSMENT FOR UNITED NATIONS DRUG-CZAR COSTA
OPEN LETTER TO ANTONIO MARIA COSTA
Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Vienna
6 December 2008
Dear Mr. Costa,
REPORT ON NGO FORUM BEYOND 2008
Concluding remarks, about the NGO Forum “Beyond 2008”
Vienna 7 – 9 July 2008
by Fredrick Polak, delegate for ENCOD
THE CANNABIS TRIBUNAL IN THE HAGUE
SEE THE
[END CONCLUSIONS OF THE CANNABIS TRIBUNAL
>http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl4pldjizh4]
SEE THE DEBATE BETWEEN CDA SPOKESWOMAN CISCA JOLDERSMA AND LEAP MEMBER HANS VAN DUIJN
DRUGS AND DIPLOMACY
Workshop on the opportunities and capacities of drug user associations to actively participate in the design of policies that directly concern them.
New videos from Vienna
Dear Friends,
Let me call your attention to our new videos filmed at the Beyond 2008 global NGO forum, they are available on our website:
War on Drugs: The New Jim Crow?
Best wishes,
Peter Sarosi
COSTA’S SELECTIVE EVIDENCE-SEEKING
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa arranged a study visit to Amsterdam on 24 April, during which he visited coffeeshop De Dampkring (the Atmosphere) and a user room (for inhalation and injection of heroin and cocaine), accompanied by two or three collaborators from UNODC, and high officials of the Netherlands Ministry of Health and of the City of Amsterdam.
Source: ENCOD
HAVE YOUR SAY ON ENCODs POSITION ON NGO FORUM IN VIENNA
On July 7 to 9 in Vienna, Austria, ENCOD will participate in the “
Beyond 2008
” NGO Forum. This forum is meant to collect the points of views of NGOs regarding the outcome and the direction of global drug policies. The NGO Forum is supposed to produce a statement that will be included in the process of reflection that governments and UN agencies are in, and that will conclude at next year’s annual meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna (March 2009)
As ENCOD we would like the following issues to be part of the definitive statement for the NGO Forum in Vienna. Please comment them by replying to this article or join the discussion on this issue at the ENCOD forum.
AFTER VIENNA 2008
Letter from a Berlin activist who planted one cannabis plant at the Netherlands embassy in Vienna after the demonstration on 7 March 2008.
REPORT ON CND MEETING 2008
Report of CND-meeting, Vienna 10 – 14 March 2008
by Fredrick Polak, member of ENCOD steering committee, and of the board of Stichting Drugsbeleid, Netherlands Drug Policy Foundation