Topic: Narcotics Trafficking - CIAO Search Results

Publication Date:: 02-2007
Content Type:: Special Report
Institution:: Open Society Foundations
Abstract:: In this report on the International Narcotics Control Board—a secretive UN-funded body responsible for monitoring compliance with the UN drug conventions—Daniel Wolfe, OSI International Harm Reduction Development Deputy Director, and Joanne Csete, Executive Director of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, detail the ways in which the Board rejects scientific evidence and expert legal analyses, praises governments that violate human rights, and stresses drug control at the expense of public health, blocking evidence-based efforts to address the epidemic of HIV among injecting drug users. Closed to Reason offers recommendations to increase the Board's accountability and transparency and to make it an effective part of the international response to HIV/AIDS.
Topic:: HIV/AIDS, Health, United Nations, Narcotics Trafficking, and Legal Sector
Political Geography:: Global Focus

Author:: Mark Falcoff
Publication Date:: 04-1997
Content Type:: Special Report
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: More than a decade ago, the U.S. Congress established a procedure whereby each year the president must “certify” that a given country is cooperating with us in the eradication of drug production and trafficking. Governments that lag behind, show little enthusiasm for our crusade, or are found colluding with narco-lords are subject to sanctions. Those “decertified” are denied foreign assistance, as well as U.S. votes for loans at the international financial institutions. Such countries–or, rather, our investors in their countries–also become ineligible for premiums from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).
Topic:: Foreign Policy, Defense Policy, Narcotics Trafficking, and Drugs
Political Geography:: Latin America and United States of America

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