DRUG POLICY ACTIVISTS THREATENED WITH LEGAL SANCTIONS
FREEDOM FOR MARC EMERY AND ANDRE FÜRST – STOP THE DRUG WAR MACHINE
REPORT FROM THE CND MEETING IN VIENNA, MARCH 2005
From 7 to 11 March, the yearly Meeting of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs took place in Vienna. ENCOD Steering Committee Members Andria Efthimiou-Mordaunt and Peter Sarosi were in Vienna and sent a daily report on the things they saw and heard.
UN DOES NOT SUPPORT HARM REDUCTION
Following pressure from the US government, Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna has written a fax in which he assures that UNODC will continue to be opposed to the concept of harm reduction.
Report of activities
During the year 2004, ENCOD’s members were engaged in several events that introduced the seeds of a legal regulation on drugs. Here is an overview of these events and their results.
INVOLVING CIVIL SOCIETY IN DRUG POLICY AND PRACTICE
“The involvement of civil society on local level in every day practice”
Presentation to the 54th meeting of Permanent Correspondents of the Pompidou group
November 2004
Report before 2004
ENCOD and its members are constantly involved in the organisation of campaigns and lobbies in the field of international drug policy. Here you find more information on these campaigns. To know more about them, please contact us.
MINUTES OF ENCOD GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 2004
Minutes of the 2004 General Assembly of ENCOD
Where: Brugerforeningen Copenhagen Denmark
When: June 25th and 26th, 2004.
THE HARD WAY FORWARD TO ANOTHER DRUG POLICY
The experiences of a representative of the European NGO Council on Drug Policy while attending the conference called “The Way Forward” on a new European Union strategy on illicit drugs, which was held in the Hotel Conrad, Dublin, Ireland, on 10 and 11 May, 2004.
A GOOD BUDGET CUT
Encod/Kanaba Expert Panel on drug policies
Warsaw, Friday 30 April 2004
From prohibition to legalization: a “good budget cut”
A cost-effectiveness approach to criminal justice and drug treatment systems under prohibition
By Grazia Zuffa (Forum droghe)
ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF DRUG POLICY REFORM
ENCOD SPEECH AT THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC FORUM
WARSAW, 30 APRIL 2004