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  • 18 Feb 2011
    Government challenged on debt and the Millennium Development Goals

    Jubilee Debt Campaign has joined with 27 other British organisations to analyse the outcomes of the 2010 summit on realising the Millenium Development Goals.

  • 8 Jan 2011
    South Sudan should not be born into debt

    If South Sudan secedes, the new country should not start life with a debt burden, says the Jubilee Debt Campaign

  • 7 Jan 2011
    Two million pay for home on cards

    Housing and homelessness charity Shelter says more than two million people are using credit cards to pay their mortgage or rent.

  • 31 Aug 2010
    British charities call for debt cancellation for Pakistan

    The Jubilee Debt Campaign is calling on the British government to exert pressure on international institutions to cancel Pakistan's debt.

  • 14 Aug 2010
    Vince Cable urged to end Britain's 'dodgy deals'

    Activists have handed in thousands of postcards to Business Secretary Vince Cable, urging him to overhaul the controversial Export Credit Guarantee Department.

  • 13 Aug 2010
    Stop the legal loan sharks

    In the wake of the economic crisis, we've all been encouraged to be more realistic about debt. It's a message that will be of little use to those who are forced into the hands of loan sharks by desperation, poverty and the refusal of banks to give them credit. And for all the government's words about financial responsibility, they're letting the loan sharks get away with it.

  • 25 Mar 2010
    Government misses target to halve child poverty

    The government appears likely to miss its target of halving child poverty by 2010 by at least 600,000 children, according to figures given in yesterday's budget and highlighted by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG).

  • 25 Mar 2010
    Friends of the Earth welcome budget's Green Investment Bank plan

    Friends of the Earth has welcomed yesterday's Budget announcement to set up a Green Investment Bank, and has published a critical appraisal of the chancellor's other plans.

  • 25 Mar 2010
    Stuck in a deflationary spiral

    What do yesterday's announcements mean in terms of tackling the economic crisis, its main victims, and the climate change challenge? Here is my more or less immediate response to Alistair Darling’s final budget.

  • 24 Mar 2010
    Environmentalists call for green budget that boosts jobs

    As the Chancellor of the Exchequer prepares to deliver his budget today, he has been urged to lay “the foundations of a green future” by the campaigning group Friends of the Earth.