2025: The year we Cancel Debt, Choose Hope
This year, as we launch the Cancel Debt, Choose Hope campaign, campaigners and activists from all over the world are coming together in the biggest global movement for debt cancellation…
Lower-income country debt payments hit highest level in 30 years
Lower-income country debt payments have trebled in the last decade, according to figures calculated by Debt Justice based on IMF and World Bank data. The calculations show that external government…
A climate finance COP – or a massive flop?
Rising sea levels, tropical storms and droughts aren’t just destroying lives and ecosystems, they are also pushing lower-income countries further into crushing debt. This year’s international climate talks – COP29…
Drowning in Debt: The Climate Finance Failure of COP29
This COP was supposed to be an opportunity for rich countries to finally stump up the bill for their climate debt – to provide adequate, public, grants-based climate finance of…
Debt cancellation – a first step towards reparatory justice
Debt was on the front page of the Guardian in October, when it was reported that No.10 could take action on debt as part of a programme of ‘reparatory justice’.…
Private lenders to make $14 billion profit after debt relief deals
New research released today by Debt Justice[1] shows that private lenders will still make $14 billion profit on loans to lower-income countries, even after agreeing limited debt relief.[2] The research…
Vacancy: Policy and Campaigns Manager
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Debt cancellation could put 5 million more children in school
Debt relief could lead to 17 million people gaining access to clean drinking water, 5 million more children attending school, and over 59,000 children and mothers’ lives being saved in…
The climate crisis is heating up, here’s why we can’t solve it without dealing with the debt crisis
The climate crisis is intensifying across lower-income countries. From severe droughts and flooding in Zambia to intensifying hurricanes across the Caribbean, the communities least responsible are bearing the brunt of…
UK Court rules that Mozambique is owed over $2 billion in hidden debt case
This week a UK Court ruled that United Arab Emirates company Privinvest owes over $2 billion to Mozambique in a debt scandal which dates back to 2014. Mozambique campaigners the…
