Opium

This edition of the Macro Poverty Outlooks periodical contains country-by-country forecasts and overviews for GDP, fiscal, debt and poverty indicators for the developing countries of the South Asia region. Macroeconomic …

income shock brought about by the enforcement of the opium ban. This ongoing deflation reflects a troubling … the falling price of imported commodities. The opium cultivation ban may be causing additional deflationary … from illicit to licit crops. More- over, since opium cultivation is more la- bor-intensive than other …

In 2023, we continued I would like to express my gratitude to the United to grapple with the challenges of upholding our core Nations agencies, our partners from the International …

Finding alternatives to opium Baz Mohammad knew he wanted a change. As an opium poppy Across Afghanistan … ago, however, he realized that contributing to opium cultivation assistance provides a source of income …

At the same time, the Emir has put in place a mechanism to provide actionable guidance for the administration via the Office of Administrative Affairs as well as established an …

regulations for de facto government officials, and the opium ban in April 2022. Overall, the first six months …

At the same time, the Emir has put in place a mechanism to provide actionable guidance for the administration via the Office of Administrative Affairs as well as established an …

regulations for de facto government officials, and the opium ban in April 2022. Overall, the first six months …

This research briefing documents the horrifying surge in executions in Iran in 2023, the highest in eight years. More than half of the executions were for drug-related offences amid a …

from over 5kg to over 50kg for bhang, cannabis or opium, and from 30g to 2kg for heroin, morphine, cocaine …

20 But the development of the settlement, the conquest, whatever words you choose, of Victoria, came very specifically in a particular period and that was the period from the mid-1830s …

the first one was the Prevention of the Sale of Opium and Protection of Aborigines Act 1896 and then that …

of the Convention on the Prevention and Artsakh Punishment of the Crime of Genocide:“[d]eliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole …

producer of Tatmadaw, declared a state of emergency. opium, the key ingredient in the drug heroin. Security … Following the Taliban’s imposition of a ban on opium production in Afghanistan in April, the cultivation … conditions “drive farmers in remote areas towards opium to make a living.” The UN office has emphasized … realities and vulnerabilities fac[ing] people living in opium-cultivat[ion] areas.” The emergence of Myanmar as …

Since 2007, HRI has been at the forefront of advocating for the abolition of the death penalty for drug-related offences worldwide, including via the Death Penalty for drug offences: Global …

Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, (2022) ‘Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act’, Bill No. 149 …

Much has been written about deterrence, the process of committing to punish an adversary to prevent an attack. But in sufficiently rich environments where attacks evolve over time, formulating a …

Organization 123: 19-30. Mery, Aschkan (2021): The Opium of the People: Essays on Counter-narcotics Eorts …

To evaluate the European Union’s (EU) policy framework towards China, this study analyses the varied facets of bilateral relations and the EU’s approach towards China, including its policy of de-risking, …

historical narrative, started with defeat in the first Opium War (1842) and lasted until the PRC’s establishment …