Foreign Policy in Focus articles from March 2001

Foreign Policy in Focus archives from March 2001

Facilitating Access to Essential Medicines.
March 1, 2001... One in five adult South Africans, one in seven Kenyans, and one in four Zimbabweans has HIV/AIDS. U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher has likened the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa to the plague that decimated Europe in the fourteenth century. ...

Problems with Current U.S. Policy.
March 1, 2001... Despite the legality of compulsory licensing and parallel importing, and despite the public health emergency enveloping much of the developing world, the U.S. until mid-1999 actively opposed developing country efforts to implement compulsory...

Toward a New Foreign Policy.
March 1, 2001... In May 1999 the World Health Assembly, the policymaking body of the World Health Organization (WHO), passed a resolution that declared public health concerns "paramount" in intellectual property issues related to pharmaceuticals. Although...

Sources for More Information.
March 1, 2001... Organizations Africa Policy Information Center 110 Maryland Ave. NE, #509 Washington, DC 20002 Voice: (202) 546-7961 Fax: (202) 546-1545 Email: apic@igc.org Web: http://www.africapolicy.org/ Consumer Project on Technology...

Coca Eradication.
March 8, 2001... As early as 1925, the U.S. government advocated the destruction of crops used in drug production, including coca, opium poppy, and cannabis. U.S.-sponsored drug crop eradication started in Mexico after President Nixon's war on drugs was...

Problems with Current U.S. Policy.
March 8, 2001... In Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia, human rights groups worry that the U.S. is providing expanded counternarcotics assistance to security forces, despite the undemocratic and repressive nature of their governments. In Peru, between 1990 and 2000,...

Toward a New Foreign Policy.
March 8, 2001... A major impact of America's efforts to eradicate coca has been a reduction in trade in unprocessed coca leaf. The coca leaf, which contains less than 1% cocaine and has been used for millennia by indigenous people in the Andes, was included in...

U.S. Human Rights Policy Toward China.
March 15, 2001... Key Points * For the last several decades, U.S. policy toward the People's Republic of China (PRC) has consistently subordinated human rights concerns to geopolitical or economic interests. * The human rights situation in China has...

Problems with Current U.S. Policy.
March 15, 2001... Key Problems * U.S. policymakers frequently resort to rhetoric about the importance of human rights rather than implementing meaningful policy measures. * U.S. critics of China's human rights violations often let their ideology...

Toward a New Foreign Policy.
March 15, 2001... Key Recommendations * The Bush administration should make an early and strong commitment to human rights as a priority in U.S. foreign policy. * Washington should establish a consistent human rights policy that is applied equally to...