Fifty Years of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs: A Reinterpretation
نویسنده
چکیده
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, signed on 30 March 1961. 73 countries were represented at the conference that took place in New York from 24 January to 25 March 1961, which sought to lay a new solid foundation for drug control in the post-war United Nations era. The aim was to replace the multiple existing multilateral treaties in the field with a single instrument as well as to reduce the number of international treaty organs concerned with the control of narcotic drugs, and to make provisions for the control of the production of raw materials of narcotic drugs. The Single Convention entered into force on 13 December 1964, having met the requirement of forty state ratifications.
منابع مشابه
Regime change: re-visiting the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.
BACKGROUND March 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. This legal instrument, the bedrock of the current United Nations based global drug control regime, is often viewed as merely a consolidating treaty bringing together the multilateral drug control agreements that preceded it; an erroneous position that does little to provide historical context for conte...
متن کاملII. Functioning of the international drug control system
71. Thus, as at 1 November 2010, the number of States parties to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 Protocol16 remained at 184. Two States, namely Afghanistan and Chad, continued to be parties to the 1961 Convention in its unamended form. 17 A total of eight States had yet to accede to the 1961 Convention: one State in Africa (Equatorial Guinea), one in Asia ...
متن کاملRegulatory barriers for adequate pain control.
In 1961 the "Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs" was adopted by the United Nations to explicitly address the need for narcotic drugs to curtail suffering and keep the distribution of these drugs in the control of health professionals. Fifty years later, neither goal has been reached for a variety of reasons. Governments have avoided putting in place systems to assure adequate supplies to relie...
متن کاملDo international model drug control laws provide for drug availability?
A preliminary review of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) model drug control laws was conducted by the Pain & Policy Studies Group (PPSG) to determine whether the models provided governments with language they can use to carry out the obligation to ensure adequate availability of opioid analgesics for the relief of pain and suffering, specified in the Single Convention on Nar...
متن کاملThe Child’s Right to Protection from Drugs
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) stands alone among the core UN human rights treaties in setting out a human right to protection from drugs. Article 33 provides that “States Parties shall take all appropriate measures, including legislative, administrative, social and educational measures, to protect children from the illicit use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances a...
متن کامل