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x-debt_wThe South-North International Campaign on Illegitimate Debt is an intensified effort of debt campaigners all over the world to compel governments and international financial institutions to cancel and/or repudiate illegitimate debt. Building on national, regional and global initiatives, the campaign seeks to raise greater public awareness and promote grassroots actions aimed at ending illegitimate debt. It also seeks to reshape the terms of the debt debate by challenging the dominant debt framework peddled by international financial institutions (IFIs) and by advancing critical analyses and people's perspectives. An International Facilitation Team (IFT) composed of JUBILEE South , JUBILEE USA Network, EURODAD and CADTM serves as catalyst and facilitator for the various campaign initiatives. Read more...
A Forum on Illegitimate Debt
Thursday, 22 May 2008

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  1. Jubilee South, European Network on Debt and Development, Jubilee USA Network, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, and the NGO Committee on Financing for Development, invites you to a briefing and discussion event on the International Debt and UN FFD Process: A Forum on Illegitimate Debt on May 28, 2008, from 3:00-6:00PM at the UN Conference Room 9, UN Building, New York.
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Illegitimate Debt Bulletin, Issue 6
Monday, 12 May 2008
Illegitimate Debt Bulletin #6 is out. Featured are the ff: 

2008 Global Week of Action vs. Debt and IFIs Set for October 12-19

International

  •  South-North strategy meeting on illegitimate debt in Ecuador
  • UNDP consultation with CSO on debt
  • Brief debt update from the Spring Meetings 2008
  • Odious debt and responsible lending: World Bank hosts round table debate
  • Eurodad comment on the World Bank paper on Odious debt
  • International press campaign: the triple failing of the big private banks

Seminars, Worshops and Conferences

  • Jubilee South-APMDD Debt Audit Training March 29 - April 5, 2008
  • BRAZIL SEMINAR: "UNASUR: INTERESTS AND CONFLICT"
  • CUBA : 10th international meeting of economists entitled « Globalisation and development problems »
  • CUBA: 7th hemispherical meeting against the Free Trade treaties and for the integration of the peoples.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Debt and human rights
  • FRANCE : Dem walla dee
  • How much it costs? Special dictators
  • Spain - Observatory of Debt in Globalisation
  • NEW INFORMATION BULLETIN: AUDIT RIGHT NOW!
  • BRAZIL NEW PUBLICATIONS ON DEBT - MAGAZINE ABC of the DEBT
  • LEAFLET ON THE HISTORY OF DEBT

Campaigns and Action Alerts

SOUTH AMERICA

  • Argentina CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE PAYMENT OF THE DEBT TO THE PARIS CLUB
  • Brazil : Campaign for an audit - NEW DENOUNCIATIONS ON THE ILLEGITIMACY OF THE EXPLOSIVE

INTERNAL DEBT

  • Meeting of the International Debt Observatory (IDO) in Cuba, 7 March 2008
  • Illegitimate Debt Campaign Bulletin, Issue 6, April 2008 1

BULLETIN
  • ECUADOR : news from the Commission of debt audit by Eric Toussaint

EUROPE

  • Spain - « Who owes you ? » campaign
  • BELGIUM - A conference "Debt and migrations"
  • Belgium - Political interpellation on debt
  • SWITZERLAND - CETIM - Report of the independent expert on the effects of economic reform policies and external debt on the effective enjoyment of all human rights
AFRICA

  • Morocco: Internal Debt Burden
  • "Stop the persecutions! For humane migration policies"
  • MALI - Live from Mali : news of the citizen's audit !
  • IVORY COAST : A symposium on debt
  • West Africa: news from Guinea-Conakry and Senegal
  • News from Congo - Benin - Togo

ASIE
  • Filipino Debt Activists Launch Illegitimate Debt Forum Series

USA
  • Jubile Act for responsible lending and expanded debt cancellation

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Week of Global Action
logo_wgaThe debt problem is not over, despite all the promises and schemes offered by lending governments and international financial institutions.
   
The debt continues to exacerbate poverty and rob the peoples of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific of their human rights
  • to health, education, housing, water and all the other essential goods and basic services which should be available to all
  • to livelihoods, living wages and job security
  • to healthy environment and sustainable use of ecological resources
  • to independence and political autonomy
  • to self-determination in economic development and all other aspects of national  life
It is a scandal that the rich world continues to demand hundreds of millions of dollars every day from the South, in payment of ‘debts' that have emerged from unjust economic relations that impoverish the South and enrich the North. Visit the Week of Global Action Website.
 
Action Alert
Liberia Needs Your Voice!
Petition on the Government of Austria to cancel the "toxic debt" claimed from the Philippine Gov't