Year: 2018

Better to Ask Forgiveness than Permission: Spain’s Sub-National Approach to Drug Policy

Better to Ask Forgiveness Than Permission: What the rest of the world can learn from Spain’s approaches to drug policy The movement for drug policy reform is a global one – and it has become increasingly important to look at what other countries are doing on drug policy to see what can be learned. Portugal’s…Continue Reading Better to Ask Forgiveness than Permission: Spain’s Sub-National Approach to Drug Policy

GDPO collaboration with Central European University on MPA student project

As part of its mission to provide dug policy research and publication opportunities for postgraduates and early career scholars, over the course of the past year the Global Drug Policy Observatory has been pleased to have worked with three second year students studying on the Master of Public Administration (MPA) course at the School of…Continue Reading GDPO collaboration with Central European University on MPA student project

Measuring Drug Policy Outcomes: Intersections with Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The following blog was first posted by Nazlee Maghsoudi, ICSDP, 07/05/2018 Original link; http://www.icsdp.org/measuring_drug_policy_outcomes_intersections_with_human_rights_and_the_sustainable_development_goals_sdgs For the sixth consecutive year, a side event was held at the 61st Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to continue the global discussion on reprioritizing the objectives and indicators used to evaluate drug policies. Pic 1Recent years have…Continue Reading Measuring Drug Policy Outcomes: Intersections with Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)