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Edging forward: How the UN’s language on drugs has advanced since 1990

Edging forward: How the UN’s language on drugs has advanced since 1990

IDPC. International Drug Policy Consortium

In an effort to help digest and contextualise the UNGASS Outcome Document, this IDPC briefing paper explores a selection of key themes by analysing the consensus-based language agreed by UN member states during high-level meetings over the last quarter of a century. The briefing studies the evolution in agreed language on: the success/failure of drug control, harm reduction, human rights, development, civil society engagement, criminal justice responses and flexibilities in the conventions, access to controlled medicines and UN systemwide coherence.

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