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Published in: openSecurityIn the shadows of globalisation: drug violence in Mexico and Central AmericaThe wave of violence afflicting Mexico and the northern triangle of Central America (Honduras, Guatemala and El...
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Published in: HomeThe courage of Cheran: organizing against violenceMistrust in government systems of rule has led the town of Cherán in Mexico to create its own institutions. The...
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Published in: HomeMexico's parallel worlds
It is strange how you have to go abroad to see the ability of wildly divergent realities to persist, side-by-side,...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of December 1st 2011
Local officials in both British Columbia and Amsterdam wrangle with their respective national governments on the...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of November 24th 2011
While governments around the globe debate on which direction to go in revising drug policy, the American military...
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Published in: HomeInside Mexico’s maze of mirrorsMexico’s government has led a five-year war against organized crime that has turned parts of the country into sites...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of October 2nd 2011
Following the successful openDemocracy Conference, ‘After the War on Drugs: Envisioning a Post-Prohibition World’;...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of September 3rd 2011
We lead this week with a look at a new Open Society report assessing the Portuguese government's rejection of the...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of August 21st 2011
This week we lead with the alarming news that Irina Teplinskaya, friend of the openDemocracy Drug Policy Forum and...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of August 14th 2011
With a startling 400% rise in the number of women incarcerated for federal crimes in Mexico since 2007, we lead this...
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Published in: openSecuritySyrian government marks start of Ramadan with bloody crackdown
Syrian government marks start of Ramadan with bloody crackdown. Eritrean government backed planned to bomb AU...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 31st 2011
The WHO refers to hepatitis C (HCV) as a “viral time bomb” due to the remarkable toll in worldwide infections and...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 24th 2011
This report is dedicated to the memory of Amy Winehouse, who tragically passed away yesterday. As we mourn the loss...
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Published in: HomePassing by at 30,000 feet, an Américan ‘threat’ to America?Mexico City to Barcelona flight forced to return to Mexico because Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar, en route to Italy, is...
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Published in: HomeMexican Caravan of Solace: a movement beginsA movement has begun in Mexico. United by the poet Javier Sicilia, victims of the misguided, corruption-fuelled war...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 18th 2011
This week we lead with the Committee for the Prevention of Torture's new Report on Poland - highlighting a serious...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 9th 2011
Portugal decriminalized all drugs 10 years ago and the results are in: decreased youth drug use, falling overdose...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of May 16th 2010
We lead this weeks report with a message from the Drug Policy Alliance's Executive Director, Ethan Nadelmann, on the...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of May 2nd 2011
We lead this weeks report with news that at the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, one of the UN's...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of January 24th 2011
We lead this week's report with news of the disquieting appointment to the ACMD of Dr Raabe, an anti-harm reduction...
