Ghana in talks with IMF as debt problems deepen
Ghana is to hold negotiations with the IMF in September on a new loan programme following a fall in the currency which has increased the level of debt payments. Under…
UN experts blocked from making debt proposals
The United Nations Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing has identified debt sustainability as one of the key financing challenges facing countries in the meeting of new Sustainable…
Vulture funds profit from shadowy financial markets
In the wake of Argentina being blocked from making debt payments, there is much speculation about who lies behind various trades taking place in financial markets. Argentina has been declared…
Argentina ‘default’ caused by vulture fund greed
31 July 2014 – Argentina has been judged to be in technical default on some of its debts as talks at the end of a 30-day grace period on a…
Don’t owe, won’t pay: YES to life! NO more vultures!
This past June 16th, the Supreme Court of the U.S. announced two highly pernicious decisions not only for Argentina and its people, but for all those who defend sovereignty and…
Africa loses $58 billion to rest of the world every year
New research published today by 10 UK and African NGOs reveals Africa is losing $192 billion every year to the rest of the world – almost 6 and a half…
We tell Glastonbury: Don’t Turn the Clock Back!
The Drop the Debt bus set off as usual for its annual mid-summer South West route to Glastonbury Festival. On board at Worthy Farm were Jubilee Debt Campaigners sounding the…
Judge Griesa: It is just not to pay an illegitimate and immoral debt
An open letter from Nobel Peace Laureate, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, to Thomas Griesa, the US judge presiding over the ‘debt trial of the century’ between Argentina and two vulture funds…
Dr Martin Dent OBE: a humanitarian giant and the author of ‘Brand Jubilee’
“Inspirational”, “visionary”, “fantastic academic”, “true philanthropist”, and “great English eccentric” are just some of the descriptions given to Martin Dent, who died on Saturday 3 May 2014, aged 89. In 1990,…
Risk of new Argentinian debt default after vulture fund verdict
Endgame approaches in ‘debt trial of the century’ after shock Supreme Court loss Reacting to today’s decision by the United States Supreme Court not to hear Argentina’s appeal against a…
