Source: The Financial Times
October 27 2010
Editorial
REPORT OF UN HUMAN RIGHTS SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR: WAR ON DRUGS HAS FAILED
Source: UN Doc No A/65/255
By Anand Grover, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right of Everyone to the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health
26 October 2010
PLAN C: PROGRESS REPORT 3
In the end of june 2010 we launched “Plan C” with the purpose of obtaining the legal import of traditional derivates of the coca leaf in Europe.
See also the first progress report of August and September 2010
Here we present you the report of October. We have also publish the full report of the mission in Bolivia in Spanish, including the conclusions of the 23 September meeting in the National Senate.
FOURTH CIVIL SOCIETY FORUM
ENCOD was invited to the fourth session of the Civil Society Forum on EU Drug Policy that will be held on December 13th and 14th 2010 in Brussels, Belgium. The agenda of this meeting was prepared at the meeting of the core group to take place on 8 November 2010
Read also the report on the last CSF produced by ENCOD, UNAD and INPUD.
PUBLIC HEARING ON “DRUG REFORM AND REGULATION, A WAY OUT OF THE CRISIS?”
After the event you will be able to see a video registration here
READ THE PRESS RELEASE
DRUGS ARE ALSO A DEVELOPMENT ISSUE – WHICH IS WHY WE SHOULD LEGALISE THEM
Source: Guardian blog
5 October 2010
By Jonathan Glennie
Since drug prohibition deeply affects some of the world’s poorest people, the development community must back legalisation calls
TIME TO DISCUSS THE ALTERNATIVES
ENCOD’s Position Paper for the Civil Society Forum on Drug Policy in the European Union
OPEN LETTER TO THE CONFERENCE “URBAN DRUG POLICIES IN A GLOBALISED WORLD”
Open letter to the participants of the conference “Urban Drug Policies in the Globalised World Prague 2010“
Prague, 30 September 2010
Dear ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues and friends,