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  • 8 Dec 2011
    Jubilee campaign calls for European debt cancellation

    Jubilee Debt Campaign, the successor organisation to Jubilee 2000, has called for a cancellation of many of the debts owed between European countries.

  • 29 Mar 2010
    Playing chicken: Income inequality and its devastating social impact

    Imagine what our world would look like if instead of money as currency, our communities were based on the trading of chickens. In this world of chicken trading it would be very obvious if one person’s ‘wealth’ of chickens was dramatically more than that of someone else, says Jonathan Dorsett

  • 6 Jun 2007
    Vulture funds undermining G8 debt deal say campaigners

    On the opening day of the G8 summit, leading international debt cancellation advocacy groups declared that the deal leaders negotiated 2 years ago has not solved the debt crisis. They also issued a strong call to the G8 to stop the activities of 'vulture funds'.

  • 4 Feb 2007
    Have a heart, US treasury told on Liberia

    A national grassroots campaign mounted by Jubilee USA, the international humanitarian agency, Church World Service (the ecumenical Christian relief network) and allied organizations is urging Americans to send Valentine's Day wishes to US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, asking him to have a heart and cancel Liberia's 3.5 billion dollar debt.

  • 1 Feb 2007
    Faith leaders and humanists urge PM to act on global debt

    An alliance of sixteen faith community leaders and the chief executive of the British Humanist Association have sent a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair, urging the government to take further decisive action on the “affront and injustice of international debt”.