Europe and the United Nations: Clinical Trials, Not Criminal Trials

HPHR Journal ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Attaran ◽  
Roger Bate ◽  
Stefano Bonino ◽  
Paul Newton
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Criminal Trials ◽  
Substandard Medicines ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Drugs And Crime

Conducting clinical trials has never been harder, but it may soon become criminal too, under two dangerously unwise legal initiatives emanating from Europe. Two well-meaning legal texts designed to fight falsified or substandard medicines—one from the Council of Europe (CoE), and another from the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) but drafted by the Irish Medicines Board—are so negligently done that they would expose honest researchers and drug manufacturers to prosecution, simply for their involvement in something so basic as a placebo-controlled trial. If clinical trials are not unwittingly to lead to criminal trials, the research community must intervene against these errant legal proposals becoming binding.

CZY ZALEWA NAS FALA PRZEMOCY? POLITYCY I MEDIA VS. DANE STATYSTYCZNE

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Hamer ◽  
Hanna Hamet
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Police Data ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Drugs And Crime

By detailed analyses of Polish and world statistics, the authors search for the answer if in fact,as some politicians and citizens claim, the world and in particular European Union and Polandare overcome by the wave of violence. Data gathered, among others, by Polish Public OpinionResearch Center (CBOS), Eurostat and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNOCD), aswell as anthropologists and police, clearly prove the opposite. Scientific comparisons concerningviolence over the centuries show that its scale drastically decreased and the world gets saferwith time. Statistical reports of the United Nations especially clearly indicate European Union(including Poland) as particularly peaceful region against the rest of the world, having the lowestmurder rates. Eurostat data confirm these results, also showing decrease in other crimes overthe years. Polish police data similarly prove existence of this trend and CBOS indicates thatit is reflected in increasing sense of security among Poles. In the second part of the article theauthors explain potential reasons for using such false slogans as “increasing wave of violence” bypoliticians and raising fear in voters as well as psychological mechanisms responsible for theirpotential effectiveness.

scholarly journals Bērna tiesības zināt savu izcelsmi: tiesību apjoms un aktuālie problēmjautājumi

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-69
Author(s):  
Olga Šķerberga
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Right To Know ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
National Legislation ◽  
International Commitments ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Legal Frameworks

Informācija par izcelsmi ir būtiska personas identitātes sastāvdaļa, tā ir viena no bērna pamattiesībām un ietilpst tiesības uz privātās dzīves aizsardzību tvērumā. Bērna tiesības zināt savu izcelsmi, tāpat kā tiesības uzaugt ģimenē vai tiesības tikt uzklausītam, ir viena no pamattiesībām, ko aizsargā starptautiskie akti. Tomēr šīs tiesības īstenošana nacionālajā līmenī pilnībā liegta bērniem, kuri ir adoptēti, dzimuši izmantojot donora dzimumšūnas, un glābējsilītē ievietotiem bērniem. The objective of the article is to analyse problems of legal frameworks of a child’s rights to know its origin in case of adoption, baby boxes and medically assisted fecundation, as well as to put forth amendments in the legislation if discrepancy is ascertained between international commitments of a state and regulation in the national legislation of a child’s rights to know its origin. Implementation of a child’s right to know its origin is analysed, examining the attitude of subjects of international public law – the United Nations and the Council of Europe in supervision of children’s legal interests; performing research of regulatory enactments, recommendations and directions, judgements of courts and comparing legal framework of a child’s rights to know its origin in the Republic of Latvia.

Article 220 TFEU

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friedrich Erlbacher
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
The United Nations

Articles 302–304 EC The Union shall establish all appropriate forms of cooperation with the organs of the United Nations and its specialised agencies, the Council of Europe, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Making Crime a Sustainable Development Issue: From ‘Drugs and Thugs’ to ‘Peaceful and Inclusive Societies’

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarrett Blaustein ◽  
Tom Chodor ◽  
Nathan W Pino
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Crime Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Millenium Development Goals ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Drugs And Crime

Abstract Development has long featured on the United Nations (UN) crime policy agenda; however, crime was only officially recognized by the international community as a global development priority following the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. Adopting a sociological institutionalist perspective, this article sets out to account for how this recognition was achieved. We draw on interviews with senior UN crime policy insiders and documentary sources to analyse the efforts of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to amplify awareness of the crime-development link following the omission of this issue from the Millenium Development Goals and amidst significant institutional and material pressures to strengthen its ties to the wider UN system. The article accounts for the political construction of the crime-development nexus and the important role that UNODC has historically played in facilitating global governance in this emergent and increasingly expansive sphere of policy and practice.

Part II Commercial Aspects of the Marine Environment, 11 The Contribution of UNODC to Ocean Governance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Forlati Serena
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Control Programme ◽  
International Terrorism ◽  
Effective Prevention ◽  
Transnational Organized Crime ◽  
Ocean Governance ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Drugs And Crime

This chapter discusses the contribution of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to ocean governance. Formally established in 2004, UNODC is an office of the United Nations (UN) Secretariat focused on addressing the interrelated issues of drug control, crime prevention and international terrorism in the context of sustainable development and human security. The chapter first provides an overview of UNODC’s history, governance and budget before considering its role in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It then examines UNODC’s involvement in ocean governance, particularly in effective prevention and repression of crime at sea, based on the legal frameworks of UNCLOS and the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC). Finally, it describes two UNODC Programmes that have an impact on the process of ocean management: the Container Control Programme and the Global Maritime Crime Programme.

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