Two-thirds of Guinea’s debt to be cancelled
The International Monetary Fund and World Bank have announced that the West African country of Guinea will get $2.1 billion of debt cancelled. This amounts to around two-thirds of the…
Impact of debt relief in Bolivia
A new report has found social and economic improvements in Bolivia since debt cancellation in 2005, but other factors are also responsible. Fundación Jubileo (Jubilee Bolivia) have released research on…
Launch of ‘Jubilee for Justice’ call
Global poverty campaigners have called on the public to remember the original meaning of Jubilee during this weekend’s diamond jubilee celebrations, as they launch a new petition to the Prime…
Debt threat returns in developing world
Call for ‘new jubilee’ as financial crisis and ballooning private debt create new vulnerability in impoverished countries
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…
Uncovering Zimbabwe’s Debt
Zimbabwe’s recent history has been characterised by political oppression, economic chaos and social division. That story is well known in the UK. However it is rarely the case that a…
G8 must cancel Egypt’s unjust debts
Campaigners call for Egypt and Tunisia to be freed from dictator loans and control by international financial groups
IMF crisis windfall should be used to cancel debt
Jubilee Debt Campaign has joined an international campaign for the IMF to use windfall profits from the sale of gold to cancel debts.