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Rwanda: A look back at the 1994 genocide
5 April 2024 - by Eric Toussaint
Starting on 7 April 1994, in less than three months, nearly one million Rwandans – the exact figure has not yet been determined - were exterminated because they were (or supposed to be) Tutsis. Tens of thousands of moderate Hutus were also (...) -
Series: 1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough !
World Bank and IMF support to dictatorships
6 March 2024 - by Eric Toussaint
In July 2024, the World Bank and the IMF will be 80 years old. 80 years of financial neo-colonialism and the imposition of austerity policies in the name of debt repayment. 80 years is enough! The Bretton Woods institutions must be abolished and (...) -
ADB violates its own safeguard policies in Nepal Hydropower Project
30 January 2024 - by Sushovan Dhar
The 140 MW Tanahu Seti Hydroelectric Project (THP) is located in the Tanahu District of Nepal’s Western Development Region. It is a storage type hydropower project with a capacity of 140 MW. As part of the project, a dam with a height of 140 (...) -
Final declaration of the seventh national congress of ATTAC CADTM Morocco
22 December 2022 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
ATTAC CADTM Morocco organized its seventh national congress in Rabat on December 16, 17 and 18, 2022 under the slogan: “Let’s continue our contribution to build resistances for freedom and for social and environmental justice”. In Morocco, the (...) -
Financing the 30x 30 agenda for the Oceans: Debt for Nature swaps should be rejected
16 December 2022 - by CADTM, Collective
1. At the UN Biodiversity Conference, or COP-15, the post-2020 framework will likely endorse the target of declaring 30% of the world’s land and oceans as protected areas by 2030. We recognise that protected areas can be effective means to (...) -
The World Bank, Geopolitics and Mal-Development
11 October 2022 - by Eric Toussaint, Renaud Duterme
Éric Toussaint is a tireless militant and spokesperson for the CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt). His extensively documented indictment of the World Bank will be published by Pluto Press in 2023. He condemns an institution (...) -
Call for the Suspension of the EU – Colombia Free Trade Agreement
18 June 2021 - by Group of signatories
Brussels, June 14, 2021 Ms. Ursula von der Leyen President of the European Commission Mr. Josep Borrell High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Vice President of the European Commission Mr. Valdis (...) -
Complicity of International Financial Institutions in Violation of Human Rights in the Context of Economic Reforms
30 November 2020 - by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
This Article demonstrates that the introduction of austerity measures does not contribute to economic recovery, but instead has negative consequences in terms of economic growth, debt ratios, and equality, and routinely results in a series of (...) -
Global Economic Solutions Now!
1 October 2020 - by CADTM International, Collective
The CADTM International network agrees to sign even though we are against calling upon the IMF, which amounts to giving it more power by increasing Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), and against creditor-led debt restructurings, because history has (...) -
President Trump’s man elected to head the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
17 September 2020 - by Ariela Ruiz Caro
Failures in the region’s coordination have allowed President Trump’s candidate to easily win the election of the IDB presidency despite the violation of the institution’s rules. In an expeditious process, on September 12, Mauricio Claver-Carone (...) -
The pandemic has exposed the nakedness of European neoliberalism
27 July 2020 - by Eric Toussaint, Miguel Urbán Crespo
Miguel Urban is a member of the European Parliament elected from the Spanish state and a member of Anticapitalistas. He was interviewed by Eric Toussaint. What is the objective of the Covid Tax initiative at the European level and at the level (...) -
IIF Private creditor participation proposal: A cure worse than the disease
5 June 2020 - by Daniel Munevar
Following the G20 Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) announced during the 2020 Spring Meetings, the International Institute of Finance (IIF) has released a template for the voluntary involvement of private creditors in a debt service (...) -
Abolish illegitimate and odious claims by European countries from third parties and give absolute priority to human rights
3 April 2020 - by ReCommons Europe
Phase 2 of the ReCommonsEurope project: “The impact of European financial policies and development cooperation strategies on the South and possible alternatives”. This document is the first of the five texts that form part of the publication (...) -
Emergency financing for Low-Income Economies to tackle COVID-19: Cost estimates for the impact of the crisis and emergency financing requirements
2 April 2020 - by Daniel Munevar
This briefing is provided to inform development of policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis and in support of calls from wider civil society for debt cancellations for the world’s poorest countries in the face of the current crisis. The COVID-19 (...) -
Embargo and blockade during a pandemic : attacks on the integrity of peoples condemned by international law
2 April 2020 - by Fondation Frantz Fanon
Embargoes and blockades are today, more than yesterday, characteristic aggressions of states exercising them against the peoples subjected to them. In the circumstances, any reduction of peoples’ capacity to meet their basic needs, by preventing (...) -
Poor countries cut public spending, debt payments trebled
17 January 2020 - by Jubilee Debt Campaign
Figures calculated by Jubilee Debt Campaign from IMF and World Bank data show that growing debt burdens are contributing to public spending cuts. For the 15 countries spending over 18% of revenue on debt payments, 14 saw public spending cuts (...) -
The Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) on private debt and human rights
13 January 2020 - by Chiara Filoni, Eva Betavatzi, Mats Lucia Bayer
This is our contribution to the appeal made by the UN Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, Mr. Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky. Mr. (...) -
“Historic process continues at the UN: This week states enter substantive negotiations of the text of a binding treaty on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights”
18 October 2019 - by Stop corporate impunity
Historic process continues at the UN: This week states enter substantive negotiations of the text of a binding treaty on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights 14 October 2019, Geneva: The (...) -
Financial institutions complicit in impact of austerity measures on human rights, says UN expert
10 September 2019 - by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
GENEVA (10 September 2019) – Austerity measures imposed by international financial institutions such as the IMF, regularly cause violations of human rights, says UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky in a (...) -
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 (...) -
The US Supreme Court Judgment: A Challenge to World Bank’s unfettered immunity
31 March 2019 - by Sushovan Dhar
The verdict is finally out. On 27 February, in a historic 7-1 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that international organizations like the World Bank Group are not above immunity and can be sued in US courts. This was in (...) -
Stop the EU’s Services Notification Procedure - municipalities need democratic space to protect the interests of citizens!
15 November 2018 - by Collective
A coalition of more than 75 civil society groups, unions, mayors and progressive parties running major European cities has come out to oppose a controversial proposed EU directive that has been pushed by business lobbies and would create major (...) -
Declaration of the Global Campaign for the closing of the 4th session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights
22 October 2018 - by Stop corporate impunity
Mr. President, The Global Campaign to reclaim peoples’ sovereignty, dismantle corporate power and stop impunity (Global Campaign), an international network of more than 250 members representing social movements and affected communities and (...) -
“The European Commission is the most obscure power of all”
19 October 2018 - by Real World Radio
MEP Lola Sánchez: “There is a struggle between democracy and corporate power within the EU” MEP Lola Sánchez, of Podemos Party, Spain, said this Monday in Geneva (Switzerland) that the head of the European Union delegation at the UN negotiations (...) -
The IMF and World Bank: Aiding and abetting inequality in Asia
10 October 2018 - by APMDD - Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development
Despite economic growth, inequality in Asia deepens Fiscal neoliberalism imposed by IFIs continues to exacerbate inequality Civil society renews calls to hold World Bank and IMF to account for their actions Asia continues to draw attention as (...)
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