Press releases
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For Immediate Release
We Won’t Pay for Their Crises Anymore!
15 April 2020 - by CADTM Europe
In the midst of the Coronavirus crisis, Mario Draghi stated in the pages of the Financial Times that “whatever it takes” must be done to guarantee the future of the Eurozone. He was reaffirming a principle that has been applied by European policymakers for a long time already: absorb the private sector’s losses, even at the expense of permanently (...) -
Call
Morocco: For the suspension of the payment of micro-finance loans for a period of 6 months, renewable with exemption of all interest
5 April 2020 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc
The country has taken the measures announced by the Economic Vigilance Committee to address the impact of the Corona virus pandemic. However, these measures have not yet included micro-finance victims. The professional group of Moroccan banks has announced that those who have lost their jobs due to the Coronavirus pandemic (employees, (...) -
Press release
Will Ecuador once again set an example of courage in the face of creditors?
24 March 2020 - by CADTM International
Will Ecuador once again set an example of courage in the face of creditors? On March 23, 2020, the National Assembly adopted by a majority vote a resolution calling for all State resources to be mobilized to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Consequently, the National Assembly calls on the country’s government to request from the IMF and other (...) -
The CADTM supports the struggle of the Lebanese people to break away from social injustice and shake off the burden of illegitimate debt
10 March 2020 - by CADTM
As the Lebanese government suspends any payment of its external debt from 9 March 2020, the CADTM reasserts its support to the Lebanese people in a struggle that started in October 2019. Popular meetings and marches have been continuously organized in Lebanese towns and neighbourhoods since the start of the upheaval on 17 October 2019 after (...) -
Crisis on the Greece-Turkish Border : let’s have done with Fortress Europe
7 March 2020 - by CADTM
Press release of the CADTM International network Once again, European policies have proved to be murderous. For several days now tensions have increased at various cross-border points between Greece and Turkey. Attempts by migrants to cross into Greek territory have resulted in heavy interventions (including the use of firearms) by Greek (...) -
ATTAC/CADTM MOROCCO Member of CADTM International Network
Morocco: Immediate freedom for Omar Radi (Activist & Journalist)
30 December 2019 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc
Immediate freedom for Omar Radi (Activist & Journalist) No to the repression of free voices and forms of expression that reject injustice and demand democracy. Solidarity with all political prisoners and popular struggles. The Moroccan state increasingly restricts freedoms and harasses activists of popular protests. It tries to silence (...) -
Puerto Rico rises...
24 July 2019 - by CADTM AYNA
CADTM Latin America and the Caribbean (CADTM - ABYA YALA - Our America) stands in solidarity and marches along with the brave Puerto Rican people and, among them, the comrades with whom we participated in the Latin American and Caribbean Week against Illegitimate Debts, held from December 2 to 8, 2018. We are aware, through the experiences (...) -
The Sudanese revolution is our honour! Down with the Transitional Military Council!
6 June 2019 - by CADTM International
Since mid-December 2018, Sudan has been going through a major popular uprising. The social explosion has been driven by poverty, precarious living conditions and unemployment (which strongly affects young people, as elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa). It was triggered by the record inflation that pushed up the price of basic (...) -
Municipalities and citizens movement defeat anti-democratic EU directive
24 April 2019 - by Collective, ACiDe, CADTM, Corporate Europe Observatory
Trade unions and other social movements, city councilors, municipalities, regional councils and even some governments can now claim victory over a proposal tabled by the European Commission in January 2017. The proposed Notification Procedure directive would have given the Commission veto powers over rules and regulations tabled in the area (...) -
Mozambique: impact of Cyclone Idai boosts case for non-repayment of secret loans, says UN rights expert
4 April 2019 - by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
GENEVA (29 March 2019) – “The realisation of economic, social and cultural rights in Mozambique should not be jeopardised by the servicing of the country’s debt and in particular its ‘secret loan’ component. Human rights and devastating impacts of Cyclone Idai must imperatively be considered in debt discussions,” says UN human rights expert Juan (...) -
Appeal: Let’s make March 8th, 2019 a women’s strike, a day of solidarity among women
3 March 2019 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc
Appeal Let’s make March 8th, 2019 a women’s strike, a day of solidarity among women. In defense of our economic, social and legal demands. Our rejection to all forms of violence in private and public places. Let’s make our voice heard against all forms of discrimination, inequity and oppression. Let’s, we, women of Morocco, who are (...) -
The resignation of the World Bank president should encourage countries to terminate all agreement with the Bretton Woods institutions
21 January 2019 - by CADTM International
On Monday, 7 January 2019, Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank (WB) has announced his resignation. Kristalina Georgieva, the current Chief Executive Officer of the World Bank will assume the role of interim President effective February 1 till the President of the United States, Donald Trump designates Kim’s successor. Truly symbolic of (...) -
Rodrigo Rato condemned. The IMF bad streak continues.
17 October 2018 - by CADTM
In reaction to Rodrigo Rato’s recent condemnations for fraudulent practices as director of the Spanish banks Caja Madrid and then Bankia, the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) considers that, in consideration of the victims, the dead and left aside and those who had to leave their homes as a result of the structural (...) -
Solidarity & support Call - Toward international organizations and activists advocating for freedom and people’s rights
20 July 2018 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc
“RIF Hirak” prisoners in Morocco are facing undeserved sentences Let’s expand the international solidarity until the drop of adjudications and their release. The Appeal Court of Casablanca stated on Tuesday, 26 June 2018, heavy sentences against the leaders and activists of the popular and heroic movement of the Rif region “Hirak Rif”. This (...) -
SOCFIN: profits on the rise, but not for local communities
30 May 2018 - by CADTM Belgium , CADTM France, Collective
NGOs and solidarity organisations supporting the struggles of affected local communities assess the problems caused, and promises unkept, by the SOCFIN group, as shareholders meet for the rubber and oil palm giant’s AGM on 30 May. Five years ago, on 5 June 2013, a first international mobilisation of local communities affected by the SOCFIN (...) -
Enough is Enough!
6 November 2017 - by Ende Gelände
Buir, Germany, November 5th 2017 Ende Gelände blocked the Hambach coal mine today, the German energy giant RWE had to stop three excavators and one conveyor belt. Ende Gelände action sends out powerful signal for an immediate exit from coal in the run-up to the 23rd UN climate summit. In the early afternoon, thousands of climate activists (...) -
The Moroccan State will be held fully responsible for any physical or psychological harm to the Rif and Hirak detainees or those that are close to them
27 September 2017 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc
The Moroccan State will be held fully responsible for any physical or psychological harm to the Rif and Hirak detainees or those that are close to them. ATTAC CADTM Morocco is following with great concern health condition of Rif Hirak’s detainees due to their hunger strike which has been going on for more than 20 days. Some of them have even (...) -
Solidarity Statement
We demand the release of all Egyptian detainees, arrested for resisting the handover of “Tiran and Sanafir” islands to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
22 June 2017 - by Collective
The Egyptian authorities have recently started a wide campaign of arrests of activists who actively oppose and resist a new agreement that will allow the handover of the Egyptian islands “Tiran and Sanafir” to Saudi Arabia. Among the arrested people were members of the newly-founded party “Bread and Freedom” as well as leaders from other parties (...) -
Lagarde Trial: A business class get-out-of-jail free card
5 January 2017 - by CADTM Belgium , CADTM France
The committee for the abolition of illegitimate debts reacts to the French Court of Justice’s verdict, exempting the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). On Monday 19th of December 2016, the French Court of Justice gave its verdict on the Tapie case: Nicolas Sarkozy’s former minister and current head of the IMF, (...) -
Press release
The LuxLeaks and Lagarde trials: for how much longer will the judiciary protect financial delinquents?
20 December 2016 - by Attac Luxembourg, CADTM Switzerland , CADTM Belgium , CADTM Spain, CADTM France
LuxLeaks trial: the wrong ones are in the dock! On 12th December the trial of Antoine Deltour, Raphaël Halet and Edouard Perrin – the two whistleblowers and the journalist who brought the Luxleaks scandal out into the open— opened again in Luxembourg. In June 2016, Edouard Perrin was acquitted but the Office of the Public Prosecutor of (...)
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