Position on Migration and Asylum
Jubilee Debt Campaign works to tackle poverty caused by unjust debt through education, research and campaigning. The lack of safe and legal routes into the UK and the lack of support for…
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Nick Dearden: The market doesn’t know best when it comes to hunger
Partnerships with food giants such as Monsanto and Unilever will not eradicate hunger – and they might well make it worse Davd Cameron’s attempt to detoxify the Conservative party has…
Guatemala’s Chixoy dam: where development and terror intersect
A 1982 massacre paved the way for a hydroelectric dam built with development bank funds. What lessons have been learned? Thirty years ago a massacre took place in the Guatemalan…
Goodnight Greece – Good morning Colony!
Our friends in the Greek Debt Audit Campaign have responded to this week’s Eurogroup statement on Greece: Greek Debt Audit Campaign announcement on the November 27 Eurogroup decision. On November…
Egypt groups speak out against IMF loan
Egyptian civil society and political groups have written an open letter to the head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, and the Egyptian President, to oppose the IMF’s proposed $4.8 billion…
30 years since Mexico’s default, lessons for Greece
Thirty years from Mexico’s debt default, Greece must break the sadistic debt spiral. As Greece’s leaders pay down the latest multi-billion euro instalment on their debt, they would do well…
UK Government goes back on debt relief pledge
The UK government has failed to cancel £19 million of debt owed by the Democratic Republic of Congo, even though it has pledged to do so.
Lib Dems urged to reveal ‘Skeletons in Cupboard’
Delegates to the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference on Tyneside on Saturday were surprised to be confronted with ‘Drop the Debt’ campaigners dressed as skeletons.