Press releases
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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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Immediate and unconditional debt cancellation for tsunami-affected countries and all South peoples!by Freedom from Debt Coalition4 April 2005Press Statement On the occasion of the 112th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly, the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) and the Jubilee South call on all delegates, their parliaments and governments to seriously take into account the grave situation of South countries and to put an end (...)
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Wolwofitz to World Bank?! - Critics amazedby The 50 Years Is Enough Network21 March 2005Maybe Worst Possible Choice; Global Opposition to Selection “The Ball is in the Europeans’ Court” Two hours ago, President Bush announced his nomination of Paul Wolfowitz, currently Assistant Secretary of Defense, to be the next President of the World Bank. The U.S., by tradition, nominates the (...)
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Statement in response to nomination of Paul Wolfowitz to head World Bankby Social Justice Committee21 March 2005Social Justice Committee asks Canadian government to oppose nomination of Paul Wolfowitz to presidency of World Bank Montreal -16 March 2005 - Following today’s announcement that US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is the Bush administration nominee to the presidency of the World Bank, (...)
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Statement in response to nomination of Paul Wolfowitz to head World Bankby Essential Action21 March 2005STATEMENT OF ROBERT WEISSMAN, DIRECTOR, ESSENTIAL ACTION, IN RESPONSE TO NOMINATION OF PAUL WOLFOWITZ TO HEAD WORLD BANK Unless the Bush administration’s intention is to speed up efforts to shut down and replace the World Bank altogether, it is hard to imagine a worse selection for World Bank (...)
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Paul Wolfowitz as Head of the World Bank! Say it ain’t So!by Mobilization for Global Justice21 March 2005The Mobilization for Global Justice is shocked and awed at the audacity of the Bush administration in nominating Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to head the World Bank. Mr. Wolfowitz is a proven enemy of justice and peace worldwide. Our stomachs turn and our hands wring at the thought (...)
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Jubilee Debt Campaign calls for urgent implementation of the Commission for Africa’s proposals on debt cancellationby Jubilee Debt Campaign11 March 2005Jubilee Debt Campaign is calling on Tony Blair to meet the challenge laid down by the Commission for Africa’s proposals on debt cancellation, committing the UK government to exert maximum political pressure on the G8 to rapidly deliver the commitment and the resources needed to turn good (...)
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Call to ActionWe are all Creditors!by Jubilee South8 March 2005JUBILEE SOUTH/AMERICAS INVITES ALL ORGANIZATIONS AND MOVEMENTS IN THE REGION TO JOIN IN THE STRUGGLE TO PUT AN END TO DEBT DOMINATION AND ACHIEVE RESTITUTION AND REPARATIONS FOR THE SOCIAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND HISTORICAL DEBTS, IN LATIN AMERICA, THE CARIBBEAN, AND THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH. II (...)
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WSF 2005: Call from social movements for mobilisations against the war, neoliberalism, exploitation and exclusionby Assemblée des mouvements sociaux16 February 2005We are social movements gathered in the 5th World Social Forum. The great success of the plural and massive participation in the Forum gives us the possibility and the responsibility to organize more and better our campaigns and mobilizations, to expand and strengthen our struggles. Four years (...)
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Debt Cancellation on G-7 Agenda-“Delay is Unacceptable”by Jubilee USA5 February 2005
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