Press releases
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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, (...) -
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The LuxLeaks and Lagarde trials: for how much longer will the judiciary protect financial delinquents?
20 December 2016 - by Attac Luxembourg, CADTM Belgium , CADTM Switzerland , 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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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, (...) -
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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 (...) -
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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 (...)
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