2/9 Post-UNGASS 2016 - Solutions that should be considered
As pointed out by the Transform Drug Policy Foundation (2012), it remains important “to acknowledge that there are no ‘silver bullet’...
1/9 Post UNGASS 2016 - What’s in it for me ?
We now have heard about UNGASS 2016, what it means and who will take part in it; which is already much more than most around the world,...
UNGASS 2016 - The Civil Society Task Force
The “importance of actively and meaningfully engaging civil society” during UNGASS 2016 was notably outlined by the CND Resolution 58/8...
5/5 UNGASS 2016 member states - Stretching the limit of the U.N. conventions
Although most examples below come from the American continents, most notably the Latin American region, the latter are not the only one...
4/5 UNGASS 2016 member states - Evolving within the perimeters of the “drug-control cornerstones”
This country regroupment is probably the most controversial issue of the section, as it puts together many countries that are currently...
3/5 UNGASS 2016 member states - In between two chairs
The “ambivalence” group is made up of countries and nations regroupment which, in the case of Brazil for example, are principally going...
2/5 UNGASS 2016 member states - The 'die-hards' of the regime
Through the analysis of the current respective domestic situations of Russia, as-well as of Indonesia and Singapore - both of which have...
1/5 UNGASS 2016 - The most powerful actors
Crucial to the Special Session are the implicated actors which we will intend to present in this new set of articles. Who are the...
The lost UNGASS Decade (1998-2008)
For analyst Martin Jelsma (2015), the last UNGASS 1998 supported “the quixotic goal of a drug-free world” by establishing 2008 as the...
UNGASS 1990 and 1998 - The dream of a 'drug-free' world
As noted by several researchers, “there is something very special about illicit drugs. If they do not always make the drug user behave...