Press releases
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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, Christine (...) -
Press release
The LuxLeaks and Lagarde trials: for how much longer will the judiciary protect financial delinquents?
20 December 2016 - by Attac Luxembourg, CADTM Belgium , CADTM France, CADTM Switzerland , CADTM Spain
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 (...) -
Press release
COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco: What strategy for the social movements facing climate change ?
15 September 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc
Morocco is preparing to host the Conference of the Parties (COP22) on climate change in Marrakech between 7th and 18th November 2016. This conference is taking place in the context of a worsening ecological crisis, in itself a dimension of the crisis of civilisation that the capitalist system is going through. This year’s COP also comes at a (...) -
The CADTM network supports the bill relating to the audit of the public debt that has just been submitted to the Tunisian parliament
22 June 2016 - by CADTM international
On June 14th, a bill relating to the audit of the public debt was submitted to the Assembly of the Representatives of the People, the Tunisian parliament. This bill was co-signed by 73 MPs from all parliamentary groups except for the Islamist party Ennahdha. It aims at setting up a committee for the truth on the Tunisian public debt, whose (...) -
Press Release
Who has been lying : the CADTM or the Paris Club ?
4 June 2016 - by CADTM
On Thursday 2 June 2016, the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) issued a press release entitled “The Paris Club will abolish the Greek debt and adopt official statutes” in order to comment a fake press release by the Paris Club that announced two decisions and to spotlight a new information website : clubdeparis.fr. By (...) -
The CADTM network’s Global Assembly is to be held in Tunis from 26 to 30 April 2016
26 April 2016 - by CADTM international
The CADTM will hold its Global Assembly in Tunis from 26 to 30 April. About sixty delegates from some thirty member organisations of the CADTM network in Africa, South America, Asia and Europe are expected to meet in Tunis. The Assembly will assess the CADTM’S action and decide on the guidelines of its struggle against the ‘debt system’. In (...) -
Marrakech (Morocco): Attac’s twelve spring university banned!
15 April 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc
Marrakech authorities prevent ATTAC/CADTM Morocco from the organization of its twelve (12) spring university. Marrakech authorities proceeded today to the prevention of ATTAC Morocco to organize its spring university scheduled from 08 to 10th April 2016. In this morning, April 08 2016 , Marrakech authorities informed hotel owner that no (...) -
The Moroccan authorities refuse to give their approval to ATTAC Morocco in order to organize the international assembly of CADTM network
23 March 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc
ATTAC CADTM Morocco is an association that contributes to dismantling the foundations of neo-liberal politics advocated by the international, financial and commercial institutions, it also leads activities of mobilization and raising awareness about the wrongdoings taking place in the different popular sector. The association’s work is centered (...) -
INTERNATIONAL JOINT STATEMENT
International condemnation of the murder of indigenous leader Berta Cáceres in Honduras
8 March 2016 - by Planet Earth
Berta Cáceres, indigenous leader and spokesperson for more than 20 years of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras - Copinh), was murdered on March 3, while she was resting in her home in La Esperanza, Intibucá, about 188 km from Tegucigalpa, by (...) -
Restructuring public debts : CADTM International has debt auditing at the core of its A & B Plans
25 September 2015 - by CADTM international
On 10 September 2015, The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted, by a substantial majority (136 votes in favour, 6 against and 41 abstentions), a resolution on the nine principles to be followed in public debt restructuring. A restructuring usually means either a rescheduling of maturity or debt relief. The UN objective is to set up (...) -
Stop State Irresponsibility Towards Reemerging Social Tensions
9 July 2015 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc
Recently Morocco has seen a number of cases of mob violence spontaneously committed by citizens against various targets which include several attacks on subsaharan migrants in Tangier, two young women for wearing skirts in Inzegane, and another against a trans individual in Fez. This publicly committed violence should be firmly condemned. (...) -
In Tunis, the social movements come together for a better World
23 March 2015 - by CADTM international
The World Social Forum is taking place this year in Tunis (Tunisia) from 24 to 28 March. The CADTM, which has been an active organiser since the beginning, has sent a forty strong delegation coming from nineteen different countries and four continents. Members from Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain, DR Congo, Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, (...) -
Press release
Hands off Greece, fighting back and resisting
1 January 2015 - by CADTM Europe
Even before the dissolution of the Greek parliament and the ensuing electoral campaign, International and European powers have launched a campaign of lies and threats aimed at cowering the Greek electorate away from voting for SYRIZA (United Social Front) in the upcoming general election to take place on 25 January. Seconded by the mainstream (...) -
Press release
2 big banners opened out on European Institutions this 19th of December
19 December 2014 - by CADTM Belgium
During the mobilisation called by D19-20 Alliance to surround the European Council, CADTM and Quinoa - both members of the Alliance - along with activists opened out two big banners on the buildings of the European Commission and the Council. More pictures here « STOP TTIP, STOP AUSTERITY AND DROP THE DEBT » « MERRY CRISIS AND HAPPY AUSTERITY » (...) -
Press Release
Why we boycott the World Human Rights Forum (WHRF) in Marrakech from 27th to 30th November 2014 ?
17 November 2014 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc
Morocco will host the second edition of the World Human Rights Forum (WHRF) in Marrakech from 27th to 30th November 3014. The holding of this event coincides with the policy of muzzling of civil liberties of the Moroccan authorities. The activities of several Moroccan NGOs were just banned, others have been not allowed to access to public spaces (...) -
CADTM prompts Argentina to embrace the Calvo doctrine and to follow the example of Ecuador in setting up an integral debt audit
17 October 2014 - by CADTM
The Argentine parliament has just passed legislation for launching a debt audit commission. It will look into the debts contracted by the country since the military junta took over in 1976. The Commission, which is yet to take off, is supposed to submit its report within 180 days. The audit can genuinely serve the interest of the people. Thus, (...) -
The CADTM pays tribute to the combat of Cephas Lumina, independent UN expert against odious and illegitimate national debt
6 June 2014 - by CADTM international
For many years, the UN Human Rights Council has been preoccupied by the question of public debt. Within this organ of the United Nations, an independent expert is charged with examining the effects of external debt on human rights. Cephas Lumina, who has occupied the post since 2008, has just completed his mandate. During the last six years, (...) -
Solidarity with the people of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia: the CADTM demands a moratorium on the debt of these countries and an end to austerity measures
2 June 2014 - by CADTM international
Since May 17, floods in the Balkans have taken a heavy toll with 17 deaths in Serbia, 27 in Bosnia and 2 in Croatia. Add to this disaster tens of thousands of displaced people and of homes without electricity, and enormous material damage. According to the political authorities, flooding on this scale has not been seen in the region for over a (...) -
Morocco
Moroccan Riches’Justice imprison the young activists
26 May 2014 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc
ATTAC/CADTM Morocco Statement All eager for freedom are invited to show their solidarity Today, Thursday 22 May 2014, The Court of First Instance in Casablanca decided a cruel sentences (years in prison for five activists and 6 months to four others and two months suspended sentence and a fine of five thousand dirhams) against young activists (...)
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