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2008 Debt Diary
Please use the following dates to help in your prayers for justice for the countries affected by the burden of unpayable debt, much of it illegitimate.
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Sept |
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| 12 |
Drop the Debt Fast begins |
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GCAP 50 Days of Action Against Poverty and Equality begins |
| 12-13 |
Spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, Washington DC |
2-4 |
High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Ghana |
| 14 |
World Bank roundabouts on illegitimate debt, Washington DC |
25 |
UN Conference on the Millenium Development Goals, New York |
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| May |
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Oct |
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| 16 |
World Debt Day: 10 years since the Birmingham G8 human chain |
12-13 |
Annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, Washington DC |
| 17 |
Drop the Debt Fast ends |
12-19 |
Global Week of Action on Debt |
| 18 |
Journey to Justice: breaking the chains of global debt, The International Convention Centre, Birmingham |
17 |
World Poverty Day |
| 20 |
Launch event for Ten Years On Report, Houses of Parliament |
17-19 |
GCAP Stand Up and Take Action mobilisation |
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50 days of Action Against Poverty and Inequality ends |
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G8 Summit, Lake Toyakp, Hokkaido, Japan |
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29-2 Dec |
UN Financing for Development Conference, Doha |
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Dec |
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10 |
60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
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 | | Vulture Funds | | This morning (26/11/09), the Republic of Liberia was taken to the High Court in London by two Vulture Funds seeking to make large profits on a debt dating back to the 1970s.
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 | | Put People First: G20 Counter Conference | | In March, we marched in our tens of thousands to demand the G20 Put People First. But so far the G20 has only tinkered round the margins of the global economy, in an effort to return to business as usual.
On 7 November, as the G20 returns to the UK ..
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 | | The other credit crunch | | Could there be a more timely week for it to be Global Debt Week? As the global financial turbulence continues, campaigners around the world are mobilising for a week of action against reckless lending, which has affected developing countries ...
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| A Fairer Way of Dealing with Debt | | Almost daily we are seeing what rich countries can do when faced with a debt crisis. Hundreds of billions of pounds have been made available in recent weeks to bail out western banks whose reckless lending has been found out.
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| Jubilee Debt Campaign - July Update | | New Loans are not the Answer, Over 10,000 chains delivered to UK government, Pick up the Pace: UK responds to campaign, $347m of Togo's debt cancelled, Forget Jay Z - Glasto was all about the Debt, Contact details.
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| Time to drop Suharto's arms debt | | When Indonesia's former dictator General Suharto died last week, one
injustice he didn't take to his grave was his debts. Nearly ten years
after his removal from power, Indonesia is still paying back billions
of dollars to the rich world.
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| Take urgent action for Liberia | | Request for people to write or email Alistair Darling to use his influence to break the deadlock among the IMF shareholders who have been discussing the issue for more than 18 months.
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| That was the week that was | | Campaigners new and old have just finished taking part in a global week of action on debt, reminding politicians, the media and the public that despite progress in recent years, the daily injustice of poor country debt is far from resolved.
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| JUBILEE DEBT CAMPAIGN ACTION ALERT | | Last year your campaigning helped get Hilary Benn to take a stand at the World Bank. He withheld £50 million in protest over the conditions attached to aid and debt relief, which made the Bank sit up and take notice. We need to do it again.
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| JDC Updates | | Opportunity to lobby the UK government to put its money where its mouth is with regard to damaging conditions enforced by the World Bank when making loans.
Also the opportunity to lobby Donegal International and the "Vulture" funds and Zambian debt.
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