Jubilee 2000 anniversary: call for photos and memories
Did you take part in the 'human chain' around Birmingham city centre in 1998? If you'd like to share your experience of the campaign, we'd love to hear from you.
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Honorary Treasurer sought
Jubilee Debt Campaign is seeking a qualified finance professional with significant experience of financial management and oversight in a charitable context to join our Board of Trustees in the role…
The senseless student loan sell-off
The government is set to lose £800 million of taxpayers’ money through the sale of student loans that it hopes to complete before the end of the year.
We’re in Mozambique to help tackle the UK’s role in the debt crisis
This week in Mozambique: campaigners and civil society organisations are holding a conference to discuss debt justice, ensure the Mozambique people do not pay for the hidden loans, and to…
The truth about the UK’s debt: 10 key facts
Debt has been one of the main issues facing the UK economy. Austerity policies have been introduced in the name of reducing the UK government’s debt. But what do we…
10 key facts which show the truth about the UK’s debt crisis
• Amount of interest being paid on government debt is at virtually the lowest level since records began • But the UK economy has the highest deficit with the rest…
African Finance Ministers call for greater transparency of PPPs
Finance Ministers of low income Francophone countries have called for a range of measures to ensure the costs of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are transparent. In a communique at the IMF…
Hidden debts contribute to crisis in Congo
Questions still to be answered about scale of hidden debts and who loans were from Congo and Chad both cannot repay, but negotiations complicated by loans backed by oil The…
Impoverished countries are being sold a dangerous private finance scheme
A new manifesto has been launched by civil society organisations from all over the globe, to condemn this exploitative financial practice
Campaign improves IMF debt assessments, but risk of crises continues to increase
The IMF and World Bank have agreed some positive changes to their system for monitoring debts of impoverished countries, though some large issues have been ignored. The system, known as…