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Afghanistan's opium production halved in 2010 but soaring prices may encourage farmers to go back to opium cultivation, warned UNODC in its 2010 Afghan Opium Survey released in September.
As part of the EC-funded project "Network of Community Services for Alternative Sentence", this seminar focused on the services provided by the project's partnership organisations and the Probation Service Office in Fier to discuss the issue and opportunities for collaboration.
Глобальная комиссия по вопросам ВИЧ и права организована Программой развития Организации Объединенных Наций (ПРООН) при поддержке Секретариата ЮНЭЙДС. Цель Комиссии – повысить понимание того, как правовая среда влияет на национальные меры в ответ на ВИЧ, а также как законы и их правоприменение могут поддержать, а не блокировать, эффективные меры в ответ на ВИЧ.
On 11th October 2010, coca growers in three provinces of La Paz, Bolivia, demonstrated in the North and South Yungas in protest to the Bolivian government’s latest attempt to restrict and control coca leaf production and sales.
The first meeting of the Commission took place in October 2010 in Brazil, to discuss priority HIV-related legal and human rights issues on which the Commission's work will focus over the next 18 months.
The central purpose of the DCAM website is to assist all organisations and individuals interested in accelerating access to medicines policy change by providing the guidance materials and data they need.
The conference will be held on 14-15 October and will focus on drug users in prison, injecting rooms, harm reduction in nightlife settings, the role of elected officials in the development of the harm reduction policies, drug user involvement, hepatitis C, etc.
The European Harm Reduction Network (EuroHRN) has been recently formed by ten organisations with a shared interest in advocating for and sharing knowledge on harm reduction within Europe. If you would like to join EuroHRN please email Maria Phelan at maria.phelan@ihra.net.
As the new UNODC Executive Director, Yuri Fedotov, takes office, HCLU, EHRN and the Andrey Rylkov Foundation, sent him an open letter to welcome his statement on health and human rights and offer their support in his struggle to convince governments to reform their drug policies.
The first IDPC/CIDDH course on drug law enforcement directed at police officers took place in Sept.2010 in Lima, Peru. The course was well attended and focused on harm reduction, human rights and a cost-benefit analysis of law enforcement.