Vulture Funds profit from Greek Misery
As EU negotiations recommence in Greece, debt campaigners condemn ‘speculators who are gambling with the lives of Greece's people'
Ministers planning to massage aid figures when cancelling unjust debt
UK ministers are planning to use cancellation of a made-up debt to help meet their overseas aid target. Sudan currently ‘owes’ £678 million ($1bn) to the UK, and might qualify…
Jubilee campaign calls for European debt cancellation
Jubilee Debt Campaign today called for a cancellation of many of the debts owed between European countries. They urged Europe’s leaders to combine this with market regulation to prevent debt…
Vince Cable’s export unit breaks coalition’s green promise
UK's ECGD backs $1bn of loans for deep-sea oil drilling as climate talks take place in Durban.
Details of Zimbabwe’s $7bn debt revealed for first time
Newly uncovered documents reveal that Zimbabwe’s £210 million debt to the UK includes loans from Tony Blair’s government to Zimbabwe’s police force while they were engaged in internal repression.
Vulture fund demands millions from DR Congo in illegal debt
Jubilee Debt Campaign has today called on vulture fund FG Hemisphere to drop its multimillion dollar debt claim against the Democratic Republic of Congo. An investigation has revealed the debt…
G20 failure to tackle debt ‘incredible’
Jubilee Debt Campaign reaction to the G20 summit in Cannes
UK lends ‘climate loan’ to heavily indebted Jamaica
UK lends ‘climate loan’ to heavily indebted Jamaica
‘Skeletons’ lobby Cable to come clean on loans to dictators
People dressed as skeletons protested outside the Department for Business yesterday evening, urging Vince Cable to reveal the ‘skeletons in his cupboard’. The event followed news that the department is…
Vince Cable’s department demanding payment for arms sales to Mubarak
Newly uncovered documents by Jubilee Debt Campaign reveal that Vince Cable’s Department for Business is still demanding money from the Egyptian government in payment for loans made to General Mubarak…