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IDPC Publications

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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5 March 2010

IDPC Briefing Paper - Time for an Impact Assessment of Drug Policy

This briefing paper calls for a much needed Impact Assessment of drug policy. All stakeholders in the drugs debate share the goal of a policy and legal structures that maximise social, environmental, physical and psychological wellbeing. However the drugs debate has been emotive, polarised and deadlocked and as a result, policy development has lacked objective scrutiny. Impact Assessments would bring drug policy back into the arena of science.
3 March 2010

IDPC Drug Policy Guide, First edition

The ‘war on drugs’ has failed to eradicate drug markets and use. A growing number of policy options are available to address drug-related harms. The IDPC Guide brings together global evidence and best practice to assist national policy makers in the design and implementation of drug policies. The Guide will be updated regularly to reflect new developments in the drug policy field.
3 March 2010

IDPC Magazine 1 - Human rights violations in the name of drug control

Welcome to the first issue of the IDPC magazine. The stories in this inaugural issue tell us of the disproportionate harm suffered by individuals because of badly focused resources that target low-level “offending”, and of the human rights abuses committed in the name of drug control.
19 October 2009

Заметка по адвокации - Обращение к Исполнительному директору УНП ООН: ключевые вызовы на ближайшие два года

В настоящий момент Международный консорциум по наркополитике не имеет предпочтений в вопросе повторного назначения г-на Косты или выбора альтернативных кандидатов. Мы четко представляем себе ключевые вопросы наркополитики, с которыми столкнется УНП ООН в ближайшие годы, и собираемся предложить нашу поддержку любому кандидату, готовому серьезно воспринять эти вызовы и модернизировать повестку УНП ООН, чтобы она позволила обеспечить готовность организации к работе в условиях XXI века. Мы обнаружили шесть ключевых вызовов, с которыми столкнется будущий Исполнительный директор.
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.