Debt campaign

• ACT NOW: Support Debt Justice for Zimbabwe

  by Jubilee Debt Campaign

  14 April 2012

  With fresh elections due next year, debt campaigners in Zimbabwe want lessons learned about the country’s $7 billion debt. Take action now to support their call. Zimbabwe stopped paying most of its debts in the year 2000. Since then, Zimbabweans have faced economic chaos and social upheaval. But today there is new hope.

• October 8 to 16, 2011

  Week of Global Action Against Debt and IFIs. Break the chains of debt!

  21 September 2011

  Break the chains of debt! The system of debt continues to devastate the lives of people around the world. People in the South face the daily impacts and consequences of the financial indebtedness of their countries, which far from having been "relieved" is growing in step with the crisis and the pursuit of extraordinary profits by the most concentrated forms of capital. They continue also to bear the burden of the unpaid historical, social, ecological, and climate debts which are increasing as well to the rhythm of false solutions to the global crisis.

• Debt justice campaigns at World Social Forum in Dakar

  by Cristiano Morsolin

  23 February 2011

  Several non-governmental organizations launched at the World Social Forum in Dakar, capital city of Senegal, an international campaign to demand G20 countries to combat financial activities of tax havens that are extremely detrimental to developing countries. The campaign calls citizens around the world to send messages to G20 Presidents to bring the issue of financial secrecy in tax havens to the November Summit of developed and emerging countries, according to AFP news agency. The (...)

• Egypt’s debt must fall with Mubarak’s regime

  by Nick Dearden

  18 February 2011

  The debts of Egypt and Tunisia must be cancelled if the people on the streets of Cairo and Tunis are to take control of their economy and hold Western countries to account In the best tradition of dictators, Hosni Mubarak pillaged Egypt’s economy, and leaves office with as much as $70 billion in his family’s bank account while he bequeaths $30 billion in debt to the Egyptian people. Zine el Abidine Ben Ali leaves $15 billion to the people of Tunisia, taking a more modest $3 billion for (...)

• A Global Justice Perspective on the Irish EU-IMF Loans: Lessons from the Wider World

  by Debt and Development Coalition Ireland

  23 December 2010

  This document outlines lessons from the global debt justice movement, provides a background to the Irish EU‐IMF loans (up to the 28th November 2010), and offers some recommendations based on these lessons from DDCI. It also flags up recommendations from other groups.

• 4th CADTM South Asia Workshop

  Sri Lanka : Debt and Development

  by B. Skanthakumar

  10 December 2010

  Sri Lanka presentation at CADTM 4th South Asia Network workshop in Colombo, Sri Lanka between 9-11 December 2010 4th South Asia CADTM Workshop Sri Lanka presentation 9-10 Dec 2010

• Global Anti-debt Week

  Pakistan : Campaigners urge debt waiver

  12 October 2010

  LAHORE, Oct 10: The anti-debt campaigners, including a foreign member visiting Pakistan to show solidarity with local activists, on Sunday urged the donor countries as well as international financial institutions to write off all foreign debts which the country owed to bilateral and multilateral creditors. They also called for immediate freeze of foreign debt repayments of Pakistan keeping in view the flood-devastated economy of the country. The campaigners urged grants instead of loans (...)

• Global Week of Action against Debt and the IFIs

  Break the Chains - Transform the System

  27 August 2010

  October 7-17, 2010 We’ve been told that the global economy is on the road to recovery. The Wall Street casino that triggered the global financial and economic crisis is back up and running; the largest banks are back to paying out enormous bonuses to their CEOs and investors; the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have a new lease on life with massive increases in their operating capital and political role. People and the planet should not pay the costs of the crises! For the (...)

• III Jubilee South/Americas Regional Assembly

  Managua Declaration. “Towards Debt Reparations and the Building of Alternatives"

  by Jubileo Sur Americas

  30 June 2010

  Celebrating our Jubilee South / Americas III Regional Assembly, representatives of social movements, grassroots organizations, religious, environmental, professional, political, sexual diversity organizations, and anti-debt coalitions from 10 Latin American and Caribbean countries gathered in Managua, Nicaragua, from June 16 to 18, 2010. We are women and men, peasants, workers, indigenous, popular activists confronting and resisting the advance of capital over our territories, cultures, and (...)

• Week of Global Action against Debt and the IFI’s. No More False Solutions: People and the Planet  need Debt Cancellation and Reparations, NOW!

  15 September 2009

  October 12 – 18, 2009 Week of Global Action against Debt and the IFI’s No More False Solutions: People and the Planet  need Debt Cancellation and Reparations, NOW! The global financial and economic crisis has devastating consequences on the lives of millions of people the world over, both South and North, and on our common home, the planet Earth. Together with the food, climate, and fuel crises, it has led to massive job and wage losses, cut-backs in the provision of basic human rights to (...)

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