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The debt crisis
- The basics about debt
- 1. Why should we drop the debt?
- 2. How big is the debt of poor countries?
- 3. Where did the debt come from?
- 4. Hasn't all the debt been cancelled?
- 5. Hasn't the UK cancelled all debts?
- 6. What do countries have to do to get cancellation?
- 7. Where do debt payments go?
- 8. Doesn't corruption make debt cancellation pointless?
- 9. How do we prevent future debt crises?
- 10. What can I do?
- Debt and... papers
- Debt and Extractives
- Debt and Islam
- Debt and Women
- Debt and Education
- Debt and Climate Change
- Debt and Public Services
- Debt and Health
- Debt in more depth
- Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative
- Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative
- Debt swaps
- Debt institutions
- Debt Sustainability Framework
- Does debt relief work?
- How much debt has been cancelled?
- What's been done with the money?
- But doesn't corruption mean debt cancellation is wasted?
- Where can I find out more?
- Country debt profiles
- Angola
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belize
- Cambodia
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Georgia
- Grenada
- Haiti
- Indonesia
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Marshall Islands
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Nepal
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Sierra Leone
- Tajikistan
- Tunisia
- Ukraine
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Voices of Southern activists
- Letter from Jubilee Nigeria
- Letter from Uganda
- Letter from Tanzania
- Charity Musamba, Jubilee Zambia
- African NGOs on 2005 debt proposals
- President of Tanzania at Jubilee Debt Campaign conference
- President of Tanzania's message to debt campaigners
- Message from African Debt Campaigners
Act now!
- End the Vulture Culture
- ACTION 1: Who Killed the Vultures Bill?
- ACTION 2: Ask the Government to Make the Vultures Law Happen
- Vulture Funds Bill - Q&A
- Take further action
- Campaign Latest
- Order campaign materials
- Responding to your MP
- Vulture funds - where are they operating now?
- Case study: Zambia
- Vulture funds in more depth
- Vulture funds in the media
- UN expert urges action against vultures
- Climate Debt
- Bangladesh Climate Finance
- Copenhagen 'deal' is a 'shameful and monumental failure'
- Copenhagen Summit
- Bolivian Press Release
- Climate Justice Press Release
- Bolivia's lead negotiator asks us to lobby for justice
- Having A Good Time
- Order campaign materials
- The Climate Debt Crisis - new report
News
- Campaign news
- Committee stage for vultures bill
- 'Cake Sale' outside Vulture Fund law firm
- Financial Sector Lobbies Against Vultures Law
- Bangladesh rejects DFIDs World Bank proposal
- MPs show support for vulture bill
- G7 supports debt cancellation for Haiti
- Civil society sends message to donor summit
- Bolivian MPs call for debt audit
- Progress on Haiti’s Debt – Keep up the Pressure
- Call for total cancellation of Haiti's debt
- Taxpayers’ money could fund child labour or slavery overseas
- Vultures gather over Argentina
- Vulture Funds Bill enters Parliament
- Copenhagen: The sound of silence
- JDC and WDM tell Gordon to pay the climate debt
- Andrew Gwynne MP to sponsor vultures bill
- Vultures Swoop on Liberia in London Court
- Videos from Put People First walking tour
- Iceland voters should demand new debt system
- Vultures Bill passes second reading, but Tories slow progress
- More news stories >>
- UN expert urges action against vultures
- 2009 news archive
- Zimbabwe: A HIPC?
- Vulture funds: 203 MPs sign Early Day Motion
- Global south unites in Barcelona
- Recovery towards what?
- Standing Up Against Poverty – and Vulture Funds
- IMF sell-off - good as gold?
- Jubilee Debt Campaign supports Brazil audit
- Time to Ditch the Dollar
- Iceland proves debtor has rights too
- Campaign breakthrough: Vultures law proposed
- Zimbabweans call for debt audit
- Vulture Culture Updates
- At long last - Haiti gets $1.2 bn debt cancellation
- New Film and Vulture Antics at Glastonbury
- Disappointment as rich block progress at UN
- The G8 is dead, long live the UN
- Put People First - Beyond the London Summit
- Climate debt - Bolivia calls for justice
- IMF's Golden Opportunity
- MPs demand an end to debt 'vultures'
- Liberia secures vulture victory
- US pledges $20 million to Haiti debt relief
- Brown's New World Order
- G20 fails to deliver real change - JDC response
- Put People First - 35,000 march on the G20
- Campaigners warn of new ‘Global Debt Crisis’
- 6 Billion Ways - 1,500 discuss global meltdown
- UK must follow US lead on vulture funds
- Stories from 2008 >>
- The Climate Debt Crisis - new report
- 2008 news archive
- Doha: disappointment on debt
- Togo qualifies for debt relief scheme
- PM urged to call time on global greed
- Bank chief challenged over Haiti debt claims
- Debt Week goes global
- Over 100 million Stand Up and Take Action
- Ecuador delivers historic audit
- End Poverty Now forum
- Off-track on dealing with debt
- Debt and the financial crisis
- Make aid work - and drop the debt!
- New loans are not the answer, G8 told
- Forget Jay Z - it was all about Dropping the Debt
- Over 10,000 chains delivered to UK government
- $347m of Togo's debt cancelled
- Pick Up the Pace: UK responds to campaign
- 1,000 campaigners join Journey to Justice
- Drop the Debt Fast gets under way
- World Bank hosts illegitimate debt roundtable
- Stories from 2007 >>
- 2007 news archive
- Gambia gets $140m debts cancelled
- UK lets World Bank off the hook
- Liberia to enter debt cancellation process
- Stalemate at World Bank and IMF annual meetings
- Debt campaigners hold Global Week of Action
- New figures show extent of vulture fund threat
- North East MPH take part in Great North Run
- Thomas Sankara anniversary to be marked
- Ecuador instigates debt audit
- World Bank to go on trial in India
- Loan sharks resurface at Greenbelt Festival
- Birmingham interfaith group takes message to No. 10
- IMF must seize chance for reform, after failure by World Bank
- Brown government urged to tackle roots of debt crisis
- São Tomé and Príncipe gets debts cancelled
- Loan sharks stalk Glastonbury
- Vulture still hovering over Zambia
- German G8 fails urgency test
- The impact of debt on women revealed
- Your Voice Against Poverty - 2 June
- European campaigners tell World Bank to cut the strings
- Wolfowitz resigns, but necessary change has only just begun
- Vulture scavenges millions from Zambia
- Vulture's wings clipped by judgment
- G7 told to clear debt skeletons from the cupboard
- Faith leaders urge PM to further action on debt
- Jubilee Congregations and Jubilee Schools schemes launched
- Debt campaigners join World Social Forum
- Call for action on corruption
- Liberia slowly edging towards debt cancellation
- Stories from 2006 >>
- Debt campaigners honoured by Newcastle University
- 2006 news archive
- Sierra Leone gets debt cancellation, finally
- UK must not let World Bank off the hook
- Kyrgyz groups protest about debt cancellation schemes
- Central African Republic pays off old debts
- Haiti starts debt cancellation process
- Debt cancellation for poorest Latin American countries
- Uruguay escapes IMF debt-and-conditions trap
- More countries set for debt cancellation - at a price
- Norway sets standard for rich countries
- UK responding to campaigners on conditions
- Campaigners banned from IMF / World Bank meetings
- Malawi gets debt cancellation
- Nobel winners praise Norway for cancelling debts
- Campaigners call for Latin American debt cancellation
- Afghanistan gets debt cancellation
- Disappointing G8 in St Petersburg
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - one year on briefing
- Paris Club gets red card on 50th birthday
- World Debt Day
- Cameroon gets debt cancellation
- Pressure pays off at World Bank - but further to go
- Renewal of Global Call to Action Against Poverty
- Republic of Congo qualifies for debt relief
- Stories from 2005 >>
- 2005 news archive
- Campaigner pressure pays off at IMF
- G8 promises under threat
- Nigeria gets debt cancellation - but at what price?
- Next step on debt secured after frantic negotiations
- Loose ends on debt deal need tying up
- Battles on debt and poverty on eve of UN Summit
- G8 debt deal still not secure
- Burundi qualifies for some debt relief
- IMF leak reveals plans to weaken G8 debt deal
- The G8 stand still on debt when a giant leap is needed
- Debt cancellation for Nigeria agreed in principle
- The G8 and debt cancellation – the facts
- Campaigners force step forward on debt
- Step forward on debt a tribute to campaigners
- When is 100 per cent not 100 per cent?
- Bush & Blair announcement a tiny step forward, when giant leap is needed
- World Debt Day marked around the world
- Rich world fails campaigners' challenges on debt and gold
- Zambia, Honduras and Rwanda get increased debt relief
- Debt campaigners urge gold sales to fund debt cancellation
- Opposition to Wolfowitz's nomination as World Bank President
- Commission for Africa urges further action on debt
- President of Tanzania calls for 100% debt cancellation
- G7 open door to 100% debt cancellation - but don't deliver yet
- Mandela tells G7 to MAKE POVERTY HISTORY
- Canada debt promise puts pressure on G7
- 'Bury the debt' is part of international calls for action
- Debt moratorium for tsunami countries not enough
- Marshall Plan for Africa a 'pipedream' unless debt wiped out
- Brown calls for "full debt relief"
- MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY in 2005
- Tsunami debt relief welcome but insufficient
- Call for a fair debt process
- Madagascar receives some debt cancellation
- No debt cancellation at World Bank meetings
Events
Media
- Media releases
- Iceland voters should demand new debt system
- Taxpayers’ money could fund child labour or slavery overseas under new rules, warn campaigners
- Vultures Bill passes second reading, but Tories slow progress
- Parliament to vote on Vulture Funds bill tomorrow
- City law firm criticised for vulture fund cases
- Unique conference on multifaith responses to global poverty
- Bangladesh resisting climate finance over World Bank involvment
- European campaigners demand G7 cancel Haiti's debts
- Venezuela cancels Haiti’s debt
- Haiti summit must wipe out $890m debt
- Debt movement calls for total cancellation of Haiti's debt
- Taxpayers money could fund child labour overseas, warn campaigners
- UK must take some responsibility for Iceland crisis
- Vulture Funds awarded $20 million from Liberia in High Court
- Twelve months on, finance still rules the world
- Jubilee Debt Campaign brings faiths together to launch new project in Inter faith week
- UK continues to exclude NGO's from G20 discussion
- Government moves to take on vulture funds
- Brown told: "Rich don't have answers to the crisis"
- Mp's demand an end to vulture debt
- IMF told: Sell gold to fight poverty
- Governments plans to water down export standars "dangerous and short-sighted"
- G20 fails to deliver real change
About JDC
- About Jubilee Debt Campaign
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- Jubilee Debt Campaign local & regional groups
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- South West England
- Wales
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- Yorkshire & Humber
Resources
- The credit crunch and the debt crisis
- Unfinished business: 10 years of drop the debt
- Enough is enough: The debt repudiation option
- Cut the Strings!
- Tightening the chains or cutting the strings?
- Loose Ends
- In the balance
- If not now, when?
- Call for Change
- Did the G8 Drop the Debt?
- Books
- The Climate Debt Crisis - new report
- Who killed the vulture funds bill?
- Commit to a Vultures Law
- News and action update
- Drop Haiti's Debt
- News and Update Action
- Copenhagen: a terrible deal or nothing at all
- Time to Pay the Climate Debt
- End the Vulture Culture
- End the Vulture Culture
- End the Vulture Culture
- Time to pay our climate debt
- Demand a strong vultures law
- G20: NO MORE BUSINESS AS USUAL
- A breakthrough on vultures
- News and Action Update
- Action Alert
- Beyond the London Summit
- Action alert: UN Financial Crisis Summit
- Debt update
- News and action update
- March for Jobs, Justice and Climate
- Six Billion Ways Conference
- News and action update
- An end to business as usual?
- Call time on global greed
- Global Debt Week, 12-19 October 2008
- A fairer way of dealing with debt
- News and action update
- End Poverty Now Campaigners Forum
- 50 Crucial Days
- News and action update
- Food crisis in Haiti
- Journey to Justice report
- World Debt Day 2008
- Report launch, Tuesday 20 May
- Journey to Justice: Sunday 18 May 2008, Birmingham
- Drop the Debt Fast
Education
- Jubilee Schools Take Action
- About Jubilee Schools
- Jubilee Schools Around the Country
- Ideas for Jubilee Schools
- Noticeboard
- Background Information and Fact Sheets
- Glossary of Terms
- An Introduction to Debt
- The G8 and the Debt Campaign
- It's a Question of Debt
- A Jewish View of Debt and the Jubilee
- Some Islamic Perspectives on Poverty and Debt
- Facts, stats and other useful information
- Games and Activities
- The Sticker Game
- Debt Word Search
- Sudoku
- Pity for Poor Africans (1788)
- I was hungry
- The Snake Pits of Debt
- Debt Diamond
- Debt Busters
- Forgive Us Our Debts
- World Debt - What Should Be Done?
- Global Bingo
- President For a Day
- Drama and Role Plays
- The Bigger Issue
- A Child of the World
- Getting Into Debt
- Managing Millions
- The Debt Game
- A Matter of Life and Debt
- The President For a Day Experience
- Presentations
- Debt, poverty and changing the world
- Debt and Health
- Debt and Public Services
- Debt and Climate Change
- Debt and Women
- Debt - the Facts
- The UN Millennium Development Goals
- DVDs and Videos
- Hole in the Bucket
- Drop It!
- Life After Debt
- Hoperaisers
- A Matter of Interest
- 2005 - The Year of Make Poverty History
- Who Rules the World?
- Djourou - a rope around my neck
- Debt, poverty and changing the world
- Debt and Health
- Debt and Public Services
- Debt and Climate Change
- Debt and Women
- The World Can't Wait for Debt Cancellation
- Debt - the Facts
- Where Now on Debt?
- The UN Millennium Development Goals
- Personal Stories and Quotes
- Felistus from Zambia
- Peter from Zambia
- Maria from the Philippines
- Quotes About Debt and Debt Relief
- Quotes About Justice and Taking Action


