Jersey announces plans to crack down on vulture funds
Jersey Chief Minister Ian Gorst is proposing to introduce legislation to limit vulture funds profiteering on debt claims from some of the world’s poorest countries.
Irish Government should stop ‘zombie bank’ payments
UK Campaigners support Irish call to halt payments on Anglo-Irish debt
Campaigners call for halt to Anglo Irish Bank payments
A new campaigning network has today launched in Ireland calling on the Irish government to stop paying the debts of the former Anglo Irish Bank / Irish Nationwide Building Society…
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