Press releases
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Debt campaigners expose flaws in G8 debt proposalsby Collective5 July 2005Campaigners from five continents gathered in Edinburgh are saying that the G8 debt relief proposals do not go far enough and have strings attached. Under pressure from campaigners the G8 has tabled a new debt cancellation proposal. Campaigners say it goes further than previous schemes but is (...)
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G8 Summit: Voices from "Indebted Countries" Warn Current Plans Insufficientby Jubilee South3 July 2005DEBT ACTIVISTS PUT G8 ON NOTICE: "MAKING HISTORY" REQUIRES ENDING ECONOMIC & POLITICAL DOMINATION OF GLOBAL SOUTH As protesters, advocates, and government officials begin to make their way to Scotland for the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, prominent debt activists from across the Global South (...)
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G8 Debt Cancellation Deal: An Incomplete, Yet Positive Step Forwardby The 50 Years Is Enough Network21 June 2005The announcement by G8 Finance Ministers on June 11 of a deal to cancel debts claimed of 18 Global South countries by the IMF, World Bank, and African Development Bank (AfDB) represents a significant success for debt campaigners around the world. Since mobilization on the debt issue began with (...)
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Jubilee South/ Americas reiterates demand for 100% unconditional cancellation of debtby Jubilee South13 June 2005JUBILEE SOUTH/AMERICAS REITERATES DEMAND FOR 100% UNCONDITIONAL CANCELLATION OF DEBT CLAIMED OF SOUTH COUNTRIES AND AUDIT TO DETERMINE WHO OWES WHOM Buenos Aires, June 11, 2005 - The G-8 Finance Ministers announced this afternoon a new proposal to advance toward the cancellation of part of the (...)
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Civil society groups mark Wolfowitz’s first day as World Bank president with denunciationby Soren Ambrose6 June 2005
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Africa Action Condemns G-7 Inaction on Debt Cancellationby Africa Action6 June 2005
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Sign-on Letter for Wolfowitz’s First Day as President of World Bankby Collective27 May 2005
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Initial considerations of the international fact-finding and solidarity mission to Haitiby Collective12 April 2005The International Fact-finding and Solidarity Mission to Haiti, headed by Argentine Nobel Peace Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Nora Cortiñas of the Mothers of the May Square-Founders’ Line and composed of 20 representatives of social, cultural, and political movements, networks, and (...)
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From Wolfensohn to Wolfowitz - The Imperial Wolf Shows its Teethby Jubilee South6 April 2005Other members of the G8 along with the so-called “donors” might pretend to be scandalized at the selection, but the real scandal are the policies and practices of the World Bank/ Washington Consensus of which they too form a part. Without a doubt the nomination of Wolfowitz is reprehensible, a (...)
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Press ReleaseInternational fact-finding and solidarity mission to Haïtiby Jubilee South4 April 2005Argentine Nobel Peace Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and Nora Cortiñas of the Mothers of May Square-Founders’ Line, will head up an INTERNATIONAL FACT-FINDING AND SOLIDARITY MISSION TO HAITI, April 3 to 9. The Mission’s goal is to investigate the present situation of the Haitian people, in the (...)
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