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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EVENT: Join the virtual MP lobby 2020
Lobby your MP to stop poorer countries being faced with an impossible choice: saving lives or repaying debt. Join our virtual MP Lobby The coronavirus pandemic has turned our world…
How the Chancellor responded to the fight against coronavirus and debt
Thousands of us wrote to our MPs last month calling for debt cancellation for countries in the global south to help with the fight against coronavirus. If you wrote to your MP, you likely received a response forwarded on…
Poor country debt payments soar to highest level since 2001
Jubilee Debt Campaign launches new Debt Data Portal showing: Average developing country external debt payments increased by 115% between 2010 and 2020 52 countries are now in debt crisis Figures…
Job vacancy – Senior Policy and Campaigns Officer
Job Title: Senior Policy and Campaigns Officer Location: London Status & Hours: Permanent, 5 or 4 days a week (35 or 28 hours per week) Salary: £33,641 pro rata (rising…
G20 failures, and our next steps
Despite the clear need for more debt cancellation the G20 finance ministers failed this week to act. $2.8 billion dollars are spent on debt payments a month by the world’s poorest counties,…
Press release – G20 debt failure will lose poor countries billions each month
G20 Finance Ministers today discussed the progress of their Debt Service Suspension Initiative. Ahead of the meeting campaigners have been calling for cancellation of debt payments, including measures to require…
$11 billion of IMF loans are bailing out private lenders
New research from Jubilee Debt Campaign shows how IMF loans to 28 highly indebted countries are enabling debt repayments to private lenders during the Covid-19 crisis The figures are released…
Gleneagles 15 years on: The last debt cancellation
Last week marked week marks 15 years since the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, when leaders of the world’s richest countries agreed debt cancellation for many of the world’s poorest heavily indebted countries. This hard won victory was…
Drop Debt, Save Lives: Global South Debt and Covid-19
Together with Eurodad, we have released a briefing to how the global south has been affected by covid-19, and what can be done about it. Read it here This briefing…