Illegitimate debt

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Participants of South Asian Workshop call for a resistance to the anti-people policies of the World Bank, IMF, ADB and other IFIs

The debt campaigners and activists from South Asia including participants from Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and India that have assembled at Katmandu for the “2nd South Asian workshop on International Financial Institutions (...)
The Illegitimacy of Debt and Illegitimate Debt

15 January 2009 - by Lidy B. Nacpil

The perspective on the illegitimacy of debt is based on a critical, holistic and rigorous understanding of historical and prevailing realities. It is also a perspective that is EMPOWERING for the peoples of the South. From this perspective, (...)
International Campaign against the illegitimate debt

NORTH/SOUTH STUDY AND STRATEGY MEETING ON ILLEGITIMATE DEBT. QUITO, SEPTEMBER 9-15, 2008

From September 9-15, 2008 the organisations working on debt held a North/South dialogue at Quito, Ecuador. After Dakar in 2000, Havana in 2005, this dialogue was concretised at the World Social Forum at Nairobi in 2007 with the creation of (...)
International Campaign against the illegitimate debt

North/South study and strategy meeting, Quito, Sepetember 9-15, 2008

26 September 2008 - by Myriam Bourgy

From September 9-15, 2008 the organisations working on debt held a North/South dialogue at Quito, Ecuador. After Dakar in 2000, Havana in 2005, this dialogue was concretised at the World Social Forum at Nairobi in 2007 with the creation of (...)
Grupo Nacional Deuda

Financial debt and sovereignty in the Constitution of 2008

THE DEBT IN THE CONSTITUTION PROPOSAL TO THE NATIONAL CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY REGARDING THE DEBT AND FINANCIAL SOVEREIGNTY (February 2008) GENERAL THOUGHTS During the long neoliberal period, the foreign debt and the indebtedness system in (...)
International Campaign on Illegitimate Debt

Resolution of solidarity and support for the people of Haiti

Between August 15 and September 7, 2008, the Caribbean was severely hit by four successive hurricanes (Fay, Gustav, Hanna, and Ike) that devastated several regions with disastrous consequences in particular for the peoples of Cuba, the Dominican (...)
International Campaign on Illegitimate Debt

Resolution of support for Ecuadorian Debt Audit

The undersigned participants in the First South-North Study and Strategy Meeting of the International Campaign on Illegitimate Debt, representing 50 global and regional networks and organizations from 36 countries from throughout the world, (...)
Odious debt roundtable report

4 August 2008 - by Eurodad

The World Bank and Eurodad have published the outcome report of the recent round-table on odious debt and responsible lending. The round-table represented the first open dialogue on the issue of illegitimate debt between CSOs and the World Bank. (...)
Debt Campaign

7^th bulletin of international campaign on illegitimate debt

This is a publication that comes out every two months to summarise recent and forthcoming actions in the International Campaign on Illegitimate Debt carried out by activists across the world. It aims to publicise the actions and give (...)
Governments urged special audits on foreign debt management

20 May 2008 - by ANTARA News

A non-governmental organization urged the government to conduct special audits on the management of Indonesia`s foreign debt in order to ascertain its effectiveness from the viewpoint of the government as its user and the creditors` (...)
The Debt Relief Package of Rupees 60, 000 crores ($ 15 billion): Can it stop the farmers’ suicide in the country?

10 May 2008 - by Sushovan Dhar

55-year-old Dattu Chaudhary, who owned 3 hectares of land committed suicide in Nara village in Maharashtra, India on March 4, 2008 barely four days after the Finance Minister of India, P. Chidambaram announced a mammoth loan waiver for farmers. (...)
debt campaign

6^th bulletin of international campaign on illegitimate debt

Here is the 6th Bulletin of International Campaign on Illegitimate Debt
World Bank hosts illegitimate debt roundtable

24 April 2008 - by Jubilee Debt Campaign

After months, and indeed years, of pushing the World Bank to engage with the issue, this week the illegitimate debt campaign moved an important step forward. On Monday the Bank hosted a roundtable discussion at its headquarters in Washington (...)
Debt campaign

5^th BULLETIN International Campaign on Illegitimate Debt

Here is the 5th BULLETIN International Campaign on Illegitimate Debt
Jubilee South e-Bulletin

Jubilee South pursues campaign vs. illegitimacy of debt in World Social Forum III

29 March 2003 - by Jubilee South

Jubilee South activities in the World Social Forum III bore an international articulation of various strategies in addressing and overcoming the illegitimacy of debt and related issues on (...)