Many advocacy and relief groups note that dealing with Haiti’s international debt will play a key role in that country’s recovery from the earthquake. Several groups have initiated campaigns to cancel the debt. The United States Treasury and the G7…
Read more »The One campaign reports that the effort to cancel Haiti’s debt continues to move forward. One notes that at the meeting of the G7 finance ministers in Iqaluit, Canada, Canadian Finance Minister James Flaherty “announced that all the G7 countries…
Read more »Ask Your Representative to Co-Sponsor the Jubilee Act Today The Jubilee Act for Responsible Lending and Expanded Debt Cancellation (HR 4405) cancels impoverished country debt, prohibits harmful economic and policy conditions on debt cancellation, mandates transparency and responsibility in lending…
Read more »Jubilee USA Network is an alliance of more than 80 religious denominations and faith communities, human rights, environmental, labor, and community groups working for the definitive cancellation of crushing debts in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. They suggest that the…
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