Jubilee Debt Campaign welcomes US call for Ebola debt relief
UK government must support expanded debt relief at Brisbane G20 this weekend. Jubilee Debt Campaign has welcomed a call by US officials for emergency debt relief from the IMF for…
Calls on UK government to prevent debt crises
Eighteen organisations from the UK and Global South have written to British Minister for International Development Justine Greening calling for support for a range of measures to prevent debt crises…
Lending boom threatens to create new debt crises
New figures released today predict that current rates of lending could lead to debts becoming unsustainable in many impoverished countries over the next decade, just a few years after some…
Argentina passes law to establish debt audit commission
Argentina has legislated to create a commission to investigate the origin of the country’s debt, dating back to the military dictatorship of 1976 to 1983. The law states that once…
Team Jubilee help make history at the 2014 Great North Run
A 'Great North Weekend' for Runners and Campaigners
UN votes for rules to stop vulture funds
The United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution to create new legal rules to stop financial speculators like vulture funds from undermining debt restructurings. The motion, passed by 124…
Developing countries propose new global debt rules
Over 130 developing countries have unanimously submitted a proposal to the United Nations calling for new legal rules to stop predatory financial speculators like vulture funds from undermining debt restructurings.…
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…
