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A key role and added value of IDPC is the production of policy analysis for a broad range of audiences including academia, civil society and policy makers. The majority of these publications are collaborations with members and partners, and are translated into multiple languages to support and facilitate advocacy.

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15 July 2009

IDPC Briefing paper: ECOSOC side event‘From Vienna to Geneva to New York – Reconciling UN Mandates with Regard to the Response to Illicit Drugs’ Geneva, 7th July 2009

This briefing provides an overview of the IDPC side event held in the margins of the annual ECOSOC meeting in Geneva on 7th July 2009. Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of UNAIDS and Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund both spoke out strongly in favour of system-wide coherence on drug policy at the UN level.
5 July 2009

IDPC Briefing Note - The 10-year review of the United Nations Drug Control System: Difficult questions remain for member states and UN system wide coherence

IDPC produced this briefing note for the ECOSOC high level meeting in July 2009. The political declaration of the CND, adopted by consensus, masks deep divisions between member states and contains elements that bring UN drug control policy into conflict with the work of UNAIDS, the development agencies, and the human rights apparatus.
17 June 2009

IDPC Briefing on UK Launch of Drugs and Democracy Report

On 28th May 2009, Chatham House hosted the UK launch of Drugs and Democracy: Toward a Paradigm Shift – the report of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy. The report calls for the engagement of civil society and public opinion so that a debate on safer, more efficient and humane drug policies can take place.