Press release
5 November 2021 by CADTM International
From 8 to 16 November 2021, the CADTM International network will be meeting in Dakar (Senegal) to boost its struggle against illegitimate debt, whether public or private, in the North as in the South. First a feminist seminar will be devote to microcredit in Africa, a financial device which is presented as a way of fighting poverty but whose consequences turn out to be particularly disastrous for women. Next the General Assemblée of CADTM Africa will bring together all member organizations on the continent. This very dense week will conclude with the World Assembly of the network, a key moment in the CADTM’s life.
After the international caravan in Morocco in 2014, the world social forum in Tunis in 2015, the 7th South Asian workshop in Sri Lanka, the seminar held in Mali, the publication of a book on microcredit in Morocco in 2017, and the 2019 pan-African campaign, the CADTM international network pushes its struggle against microcredits further with a new seminar devoted to this issue, focusing on its specific impact on women in Africa, and more specifically in the context of the CoViD pandemic. On the programme of the event from 8 to 11 November: workshops, debates and mobilizations, organized by the African Coordination of feminist struggles, with women delegates from 15 countries (Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal, South Africa, Togo).
On 12 November 2021, delegate members from some fifteen countries in the African network will convene on the occasion of the continent’s general Assembly. They will focus on how to deal with the debt crisis when 20% of African countries are defaulting or about to default. The issue was also examined by the CADTM network in Kinshasa during the third university of CADTM Africa held from 28 to 30 October 2021.
Five years after the World Assembly held in Tunis, delegates from all member organizations of the CADTM International network will come together from 13 to 16 November for the traditional World Assembly of the network. The agenda is fascinatingly rich, including a political debate on the global situation and national as well as continental reports. The work of the joint international secretariat and events of the network since the Assembly held in Tunis in 2016 will be assessed. The network’s political charter and organizational charter, already amended by the CADTM international Council in September 2019, will be updated again to better respond to what is currently at stake. Lastly we will examine the perspectives of the CADTM International network and the requests for adhesion we have received over the past five years. The various meetings of the World Assembly, which will be held both on line and face-to-face, will be interpreted simultaneously into French, English and Spanish.
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