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Suspending public debt repayments by legal means
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Cécile Lamarque,
Renaud Vivien
6 July 2011
Like the governments of the South did in the 1980s, the governments of the North are using the debt as an excuse to introduce austerity policies that in many respects are similar to the structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) advocated by the IMF and the World Bank. Naturally, we have nothing against austerity measures being applied to capital holders, speculators and high income earners as a means of ensuring social justice and respect for people’s economic, social and cultural rights (...)
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9th CADTM International Seminar: Debt and human rights: what are the obligations of creditor states and International financial Institutions?
6 December 2010
With 11.11.11 - Coalition of the North-south movement in Flanders and CNCD-11.11.11 - National Centre for Cooperation towards Development under the auspices of Olga Zrihen, MP Friday 26 November 2010, ‘Maison des parlementaires’, Brussels
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International Court of Justice rules on Uruguayan Botnia case
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CEDHA
30 April 2010
ICJ RULES ON PULP MILL CASE: World Bank’s IFC, Nordea, Calyon and Finnvera Complicit in Violations of International Law April 20, 2010 – The Hague - With nearly a 4-year road block firmly in place on the Argentine Uruguayan border in protest over a World Bank (IFC-financed) Finnish pulp mill, the long-awaited International Court of Justice (ICJ) verdict came in today, clearly legitimizing local protests and indicating that Uruguay violated international law in the unilateral decision to (...)
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60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 22th anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development
7th CADTM INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ’DEBT AND HUMAN RIGHTS’
22 October 2008
DEBT AND HUMAN RIGHTS 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) 22th anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development (1986) 7th CADTM international seminar On 4th and 5th December 2008 9.30-5, Belgian Senate (21 rue de Louvain)- Brussels Thursday 4 December Introduction, Olga Zrihen (Sénatrice) et Eric Toussaint (CADTM Belgique) Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Declaration on the Right to Development, Assassment and perspectives, Julie (...)
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International Campaign on Illegitimate Debt
Resolution of support for Ecuadorian Debt Audit
19 September 2008
The undersigned participants in the First South-North Study and Strategy Meeting of the International Campaign on Illegitimate Debt, representing 50 global and regional networks and organizations from 36 countries from throughout the world, meeting in Quito, Ecuador, on September 9 – 15, 2008, CONSIDERING 1.That the people of Ecuador have been demanding that their government fulfill its right and obligation to take necessary measures in the face of the debt claimed illegitimately of their (...)
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Odious debt roundtable report
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Eurodad
4 August 2008
The World Bank and Eurodad have published the outcome report of the recent round-table on odious debt and responsible lending. The round-table represented the first open dialogue on the issue of illegitimate debt between CSOs and the World Bank. It also involved inputs from creditor and debtor governments, academics and other experts. The report covers some of the main discussions and debates on the definition of illegitimate and odious debt, proposals for how the issue could be tackled, (...)
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Natural Resources are the Common Goods of Humanity
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CADTM
20 July 2008
Controlling the use of natural resources is one of the major concerns of all governments. However, large quantities of these natural resources are found in countries of the South (oil, metals, diamond, timber, etc.) and thus attract the great powers, such as the US, the EU or China, who have an imperative need for them to feed their economies. The consequences are often tragic for people in the Global South, who cannot benefit from their own resources. For instance the Democratic Republic (...)
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Press release
International civil society organisations protest Telecom Italia’s new attacks and confiscatory measures against Bolivia
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People’s Social Summit
16 May 2008
Civil society organisations meeting in the People’s Social Summit in Lima denounce the recent decision of ETI and Telecom Italia this month to demand that the New York State Court freeze the accounts of the National Telecommunications Company (ENTEL) as part of a strategy of aggression against the government of Bolivia. Lima, 15 May 2008 Meeting in Lima during the People’s Social Summit Linking Alternatives 3, the organisations signed below, denounce the recent acts of aggression of (...)
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Press Conference May 13, 2008
United States Supreme Court Order Clears the Way for the Khulumani International Lawsuit to Go Forward
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Khulumani Support Group
14 May 2008
Khulumani Support Group, a national membership based organisation of victims and survivors of Apartheid, welcomes the order issued by the United States Supreme Court yesterday that the judgment of the Second Circuit Court of Appeal in the Khulumani International Lawsuit stands. This significant development opens the way for the case to go forward to trial. The circumstances of the Supreme Court Order are that the Court lacked the necessary quorum of six justices to issue an opinion. Four (...)
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Succesful international action of civil non violent disobedience « Nato Game Over » on March 22th 2008 at NATO headquarters in Brussels
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CADTM Belgique
24 March 2008
Saturday March 22th at ten days from the next NATO’ summit in Bucarest, 450 demonstrators from 17 European countries opposing the war logical sustained by NATO were jailed for several hours (from 6 to 10 hours) at Brussels law Courts. Among them were 11 CADTM Belgium members. The reason for their detention was their participation to the international action « Nato Game Over », a non violent action of civil disobedience organized by the Pacifist movement Vredesactie (Action for peace) in which (...)
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