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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?
- Reports
- REPORT: The State of Debt
- REPORT: Climate Loan Sharks
- The Climate Debt Crisis
- REPORT: The Department for Dodgy Deals
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Sierra Leone
- Tajikistan
- Tunisia
- Ukraine
- Pakistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- 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
Campaigns
- End Britain's Dodgy Deals
- Liberal Democrats: Take Action on Dictator Debt
- ACT NOW: Drop Egypt's dictator debt
- Keep the pressure on: update your MP
- Vince Cable's response to our campaign
- ACT NOW: Investigate dictator debts
- BRIEFING: Uncovering Britain's Debt Secrets
- REPORT: The Department for Dodgy Deals
- Campaign Latest
- What is a debt audit?
- Case Studies
- Order Campaign Materials
- ACT NOW: Stop debt vultures swooping on Greece
- ACT NOW: Don't let Vultures swoop in Jersey
- Campaign Latest
- SUCCESS: Vultures Law Passed
- Vulture funds - how it happened
- Vulture Funds Bill - Q&A
- Vulture funds - where are they operating now?
- Case study: Zambia
- Vulture funds in more depth
- Vulture funds in the media
- Debt and the financial crisis
- ACT NOW: Stop the EU silencing the UN on debt
- Campaigners call for Greek Debt Audit
- European Crisis: Time for a Debt Court
- REPORT: Climate Loan Sharks
- ACT NOW: Say No to World Bank Climate Loans
- Campaign Latest
- ACT NOW: Send a pound to the UN Climate Fund
- UPDATE: Refusing public money
Events
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News
- Campaign news
- Debt threat returns in developing world
- Japan to write-off some of Burma's debt
- UK backed millions in loans for Zimbabwe Hawk jets
- The Greek Elections and the question of debt
- Rich countries fail to silence UNCTAD
- Dictator Debt Die-in at Dodgy Deals Department
- Argentina still ‘owes’ UK dictator debt for Falklands arms
- Egyptian government considers IMF loan
- Hundreds debate a global economy 'for the 99%'
- UK government goes back on debt relief pledge
- Lib Dems urged to reveal 'Skeletons in Cupboard'
- More loans and debt for Sri Lanka
- Guinea set to borrow $200 million from IMF
- UK government rejects calls for Zimbabwe audit
- Greece is a smokescreen for the mother of all bank bailouts
- Greek Debt Audit Campaign statement
- Jersey plans to crack down on vulture funds
- Great North Run: Now recruiting for 2012
- Debt zombies protest outside Irish embassy
- Vulture funds profit from Greek misery
- What the EU summit means for debt
- Jubilee on Jersey
- Government shuns Dodgy Deals bill despite MP support
- No to the 50% haircut - Greek Audit Commission
- Top 5 questions about the Greek debt crisis
- Halloween protest exposes skeletons in cupboard
- Irish debt audit finds banks are main culprits
- UK considering loan to indebted Sri Lanka
- Biggest ever JDC team runs Great North Run
- Tim Jones blogs from Zimbabwe
- Lessons for Zimbabwe from the Europe debt crisis
- South Sudan starts life debt free
- UK loses Zimbabwe payment record
- New IMF loans for Cote d'Ivoire
- Hundreds take on Dodgy Dealers at Glastonbury
- Jersey and Guernsey consider action on vulture funds
- UK backs exports for nuclear power plant
- Developing country groups slam UK climate loans
- All aboard for Glastonbury 2011
- Tim Jones: The invisible debts
- The IMF and Jamaica’s Debt Problem
- Nick Dearden blog from Athens Debt conference
- Demanding Debt Relief at the IMF Spring Meetings
- MPs back overhaul of Vince Cable department
- MPs urge overhaul of “secretive” department
- Call for moratorium and audit of Tunisia’s debt
- Debt relief on the agenda of IMF windfall talks
- MEPs back tighter controls on export credit
- IMF crisis windfall should be used to cancel debt
- VICTORY: Vulture funds law set in stone
- BP violating human rights rules, says UK
- Protests in S Asia over World Bank climate loans
- Debt and the Millennium Development Goals
- Egypt's debt must fall with Mubarak's regime
- Nick Dearden blogs from the World Social Forum
- EU Parliament proposes new export safeguards
- £1 billion of debt cancellation to count as aid
- South Sudan should not be born into debt
- IMF conditions fuelling Pakistan's political crisis
- Stories from 2010 >>
- Details of Zimbabwe's $7bn debt revealed for first time
- 2010 news archive
- Private debt, public pain: lessons for Ireland
- Togo and Guinea-Bissau set for $3 billion of debt cancellation
- Cancun: World Bank role 'still uncertain'
- Global call for World Bank Out of Climate Finance
- Irish Campaigners say IMF Has Failed All Around the World
- Debt flashmob outside Pakistan summit
- Campaign success: Mitchell to overhaul CDC
- Birmingham campaigners quiz Poverty Minister
- Great North Runners raise thousands for JDC
- Campaigners call for debt cancellation for Pakistan
- Dodgy Dealers protest outside Cable's office
- CDC: Fighting Poverty or Supporting Finance?
- IMF debt write-off for Haiti at last (and new loan)
- Fuelling Injustice: Debt and Muslim countries
- Drop the Debt @ Glastonbury 2010
- Drop The Debt – In A Field Of Its Own At Glastonbury 2010
- IMF admits more debt relief might be necessary
- Election 2010: Vote Global
- Nick Dearden: International Money Fiends
- Landmark Law Passed to Tackle Vulture Funds
- Liberia receives debt cancellation
- Labour commits to a Vultures Law
- Labour and Conservatives exchange letters on Vulture Funds
- George Osborne replies on death of Vultures Bill
- Who Killed the Vultures Bill?
- Vultures Protest in Shipley
- Committee stage for vultures bill
- Multifaith global poverty conference held in Birmingham
- Taxpayers’ money could fund child labour or slavery overseas
- 'Cake Sale' outside Vulture Fund law firm
- Financial Sector Lobbies Against Vultures Law
- MPs show support for vulture bill
- G7 supports debt cancellation for Haiti
- Civil society sends message to donor summit
- Iceland voters should demand new debt system
- Progress on Haiti’s Debt – Keep up the Pressure
- Bolivian MPs call for debt audit
- Call for total cancellation of Haiti's debt
- Vultures Bill passes second reading, but Tories slow progress
- Bangladesh rejects DFIDs World Bank proposal
- Vultures gather over Argentina
- Stories from 2009 >>
- UPDATE: Refusing public money
- 2009 news archive
- Vulture Funds Bill enters Parliament
- UN expert urges action against vultures
- 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
- 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?
- Videos from Put People First walking tour
- 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 >>
- 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
Media
- Media releases
- Campaigners condemn UK hypocrisy on debt at UN negotiations
- UK development fund implicated in money-laundering investigation
- Argentina still ‘owes’ UK dictator debt for Falklands arms
- ‘Irish deal simply recycles zombie debts'
- Osborne must stop the Greek vultures
- Vulture funds try to convince UK Government to freeze out Argentina
- EU must not 'enslave' Greece at behest of banks
- Jersey announces plans to crack down on vulture funds
- Irish Government should stop 'zombie bank' payments
- Campaigners call for halt to Anglo Irish Bank payments
- Vulture Funds profit from Greek Misery
- Ministers planning to massage aid figures when cancelling unjust debt
- Jubilee campaign calls for European debt cancellation
- Vince Cable's export unit breaks coalition's green promise
- Vulture fund demands millions from DR Congo in illegal debt
- G20 failure to tackle debt ‘incredible’
- UK lends ‘climate loan’ to heavily indebted Jamaica
- 'Skeletons' lobby Cable to come clean on loans to dictators
- Vince Cable's department demanding payment for arms sales to Mubarak
- Write-down of 50 per cent in Greece’s private debt is not enough
- Liberal Democrats adopt tougher policy on responsible exports
- Liberal Democrat inaction over dictator debts contradicts commitments to democracy
- Poorest countries take back seat as IMF Board frets over cost of Greek default
- EU Emergency Summit must deliver debt justice
- South Sudan set to start life debt free
- UK subsidies for Airbus makes mockery of ‘greenest government ever’ claim
- Reaction to the appointment of Christine Lagarde as head of the IMF
- G8 must cancel Egypt's unjust debts
- Cancel all Egypt's unjust debts, says Jubilee Debt Campaign
- Irish national debt audit to determine real picture
- IMF crisis windfall should be used to cancel debt
- Vulture funds law set in stone
- Another bank bailout will not help Portugal
- BP violated human rights rules, says UK government
- Campaigners call for Greek Debt Audit
- Government export push 'could create toxic debt'
- South Sudan should not be saddled with inflated unjust debts
- Lord Green told: Britain’s exports must stop harming people and planet
- South Sudan should not be born into debt
- Funding increase for the World Bank means more loans and debt
- Cancun: Anger grows at World Bank role in climate
- Liberia agrees debt settlement with offshore 'Vulture Funds'
- Rich countries express concern at vulture funds
- Anger over UK's controversial climate loans
- Vulture Fund awarded $100m in Jersey court
- The Co-operative Calls on Government to Tackle Unfinished Business of Third World Debt
- Unanswered questions if ECGD joins 'bonfire of quangos'
- Campaigners condemn IMF and World Bank’s ‘cynical’ loans to Pakistan
- British charities call for debt cancellation for Pakistan
- Campaigners call for debt cancellation for Pakistan
- Vince Cable told: ‘End Britain’s Dodgy Deals’
- Liberia receives debt cancellation
- Landmark Law Passed to Tackle Vulture Funds
- Vulture Funds Bill passes Commons
- Campaigners welcome Government's manifesto commitment to anti-poverty legislation
- Tory MP kills anti-poverty bill
- Yorkshire MP threatens to derail anti-poverty bill
- 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
- Details of Zimbabwe's $7bn debt revealed for first time
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Education
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- About Jubilee Schools
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- Noticeboard
- Background Information and Fact Sheets
- Glossary of Terms
- An Introduction to Debt
- 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
