Protecting communities: Responding to the impact of urban drug markets
This paper looks at the challenge posed by urban drug markets, particularly the impact on crime, safety, and development. It combines a granular...
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A rising tide: Trends in production, trafficking and consumption of drugs in North Africa
This report offers a sizing and analysis of the developing trends around drugs in the Maghreb. It begins by detailing the production of narcotics in...
Crisis and opportunity: Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on illicit drug markets.
The implications of the coronavirus pandemic for governance and law enforcement will be profound and, from the perspective of illicit drug markets,...
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Black Sea: A rising tide of illicit business?
At the end of November 2019, the Azeri customs authority made its largest-ever seizure of Afghan-sourced heroin. At 930 kilograms, it was also the...
Africa experiencing fastest growth in heroin use worldwide
On 16 October, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) addressed the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna....
Supporting Safe Spaces (Tanzania)
‘Supporting Safe Spaces’: a resilience shelter for women and girls who are affected by drug use and Tanzania’s war on drugs has been opened in...
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Enforcement of drug laws: Refocusing on Organized Crime Elites
In this first report of this decade, the Global Commission on Drug Policy outlines how the current international drug control regime works for the...
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Interview with Ruth Dreifuss on the decriminalization of drugs.
How would you assess the current state of the debate around decriminalization of drugs? There have certainly been positive developments since the...
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Drug policies and development
The 12th volume of International Development Policy explores the relationship between international drug policy and development goals, both current...
Enforcement of drug laws: Refocusing on Organized Crime Elites
In this first report of this decade, the Global Commission on Drug Policy outlines how the current international drug control regime works for the...
The evolution of illicit drug markets and drug policy in Africa
This continental report reflects on the changing drug policy environment in Africa. Globally, support for drug policy reform has grown over the past...