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
REPORT ON SECOND SESSION CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM
Report on the second session of the Civil Society Forum on Drug Policy in the EU, 20 / 21 May 2008
By: Joep Oomen and Martin Barriuso, ENCOD representatives at the forum.
Read also the official report of the European Commission
LETTER TO EUROPEAN COMMISSION ON ALDO BIANZINO
Today, 20 May 2008, the ENCOD delegation at the second session of the EU Civil Society Forum on Drug Policy in the EU handed over the following letter to the representatives of Director General Jonathan Faull of the European Commission Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security
STATEMENT TO CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM ON EU DRUG POLICY
EUROPEAN COALITION FOR JUST AND EFFECTIVE DRUG POLICIES – ENCOD vzw
Statement to the Civil Society Forum on Drug Policy – 20/21 May 2008
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.
COMMISSION BUYS THE SILENCE OF CITIZENS
On 14 April 2008, the deadline expired for presenting applications to the call for proposals for the budget line on Drug Prevention and Information, which was established to support the role of civil society organisations in EU drug policy. ENCOD has decided not to apply to this call for proposals. In the following statement, we explain why.
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
