Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD)

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Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD)

Basic Documents

Hemispheric Drug Strategy

Hemispheric Drug Strategy and Plan of Action (current)
Hemispheric Plan of Action on Drugs (2016 - 2020)
Hemispheric Plan of Action on Drugs, 2011-2015 (PDF, 177 kb)
Strategy and Plan in combined PDF edition (2011-2015).
Introduction to the Hemispheric Drug Strategy
by James Mack, former CICAD Executive Secretary, June 2010
Resolution of the OAS General Assembly, June 8, 2010
A Comprehensive Drug Strategy, José Miguel Insulza, OAS Secretary General. Originally published in Huffington Post, June 23, 2010

CICAD Documents

Regular and Extraordinary Session of Meetings: Final Reports, presentations and working papers
Annual Reports to the OAS General Assembly
CICAD Statute and Regulations (amended 1996) - PDF, 65 kb
Anti-Drug Strategy in the Hemisphere (1996)
- Action Plan for the Implementation of the Anti-Drug Strategy
Inter-American Program of Action of Rio de Janeiro Against the Illicit Use and Production of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and Traffic Therein (1987)
- Statute of the Specific Fund of the Program of Action of Rio de Janeiro
- Declaration and Program of Action of Ixtapa (1990): guidelines for implementing the Program of Rio
Inter-American Program of Quito (1990): Comprehensive Education to Prevent Drug Abuse

CICAD Briefing Papers

Focus on CICAD - December 2011 (PDF, 385 kb) ::: May 2011 (PDF, 890kb) ::: January 2011 (PDF, 326 kb) ::: May 2010 (PDF, 480 kb)
CICAD brief (2 page summary of programs and projects, November 2011, PDF, 88 kb) and in Spanish, French and Portuguese

CICAD Achievements

A brief summary of CICAD achievements over the last decade (2005)
Testimony of CICAD Executive Secretary James Mack before the US Congress, March 30, 2006
The CICAD Observer archives. A quarterly newsletter about CICAD activity.

Summits of the Americas

Every four years, the meeting of heads of state and government of the Hemisphere agree to an agenda of political commitment and international cooperation. Among the measures adopted, they give specific mandates on dealing with the drug problem and related issues. Here the relevant points are extracted:

Port of Spain 2009: Declaration of Commitment
Mar del Plata 2005: Declaration and Action Plan
Quebec 2001 Extract of the Final Declaration and the Plan of Action related to CICAD and the MEM
Santiago 1998 Final Declaration and Plan of Action

International and Inter-American Treaties and Conventions

Key international and regional agreements, as specified in the Hemispheric Drug Strategy.
The international framework for drug control: agreements and institutions.
Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and other related materials (CIFTA, 1997). Also see Model Regulations.
Inter-American Convention against Corruption (HTML, 1996)
Declaration on Security in the Americas (PDF, 2003)

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