Helen Clark

@HelenClarkUNDP

Helen Clark is a former Prime Minister of New Zealand and former Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme.

<p>The government has announced it will invest £780 million in drug treatment in an effort to break the ‘cycle of crime’ fuelled by addiction (Christopher Furlong/PA)</p>

Drugs are as much a health issue as a criminal one

Prohibition-based policy approaches have not eradicated and will not eradicate cannabis consumption

Prohibition of cannabis does not work in New Zealand, or anywhere else

Fewer than 100 people have received medicinal cannabis treatment in the UK

Cannabis and heroin tell a painful story about our broken drugs system

Helen Clark with Paul Harrison (left) of the UNDP and John Scanlon of CITES

Elephant Campaign

Hanoi Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference must result in action

Kenya Wildlife Services rangers pile up elephant ivory onto a pyre. On the 30th April 2016 they burned approximately 105 tonnes of confiscated ivory

Illicit wildlife trafficking is about people - they alone can fix it

An elephant walks across the open plains of the Maasai Mara National Reserve on February 29, 2016 in Talek, Kenya.

Giants Club Summit

It is time to act on wildlife crime before it is too late

The fall of Saigon – by demolition