Doha: disappointment on debt
Campaigners left the UN Financing for Development conference this week disappointed, but not surprised, at the lack of progress on debt.

Togo qualifies for debt relief scheme
Togo, one of the poorest countries in the world, has finally qualified for the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief initiative.

PM urged to call time on global greed
Anti-poverty campaigners are calling on Gordon Brown to push for radical and democratic reform of the economic system, ahead of a special G20 summit.

Bank chief challenged over Haiti debt claims
Jubilee Debt Campaign has today demanded World Bank President Robert Zoellick clarifies 'misleading' remarks made on a visit to storm-ravaged Haiti last week.

Debt Week goes global
From 12-19 October, hundreds of networks and organisations around the world organised activities and events as part of Global Debt Week 2008.

Over 100 million Stand Up and Take Action
A total of 116,993,629 people - almost 2% of the world's population - took part in Stand Up and Take Action last weekend. It's a new world record!

Ecuador delivers historic audit
Ecuador made history this month when its Debt Audit Commission completed the world's first government-led review of the true impacts of a country's debt.

End Poverty Now forum
Anti-poverty activists gathered in Central London on Saturday for a forum to discuss what today's global crises mean for campaigning against poverty.

Off-track on dealing with debt
World leaders are meeting in New York today for a UN High Level Conference on the Millennium Development Goals - one of which covers debt relief.

Debt and the financial crisis
Bailing out the banks without progress on the world's problems such as poverty and climate change is like socialism for the rich. It's time for proper regulation...

Make aid work - and drop the debt!
As rich country leaders gather in Ghana to discuss the quality of aid, debt campaigners are calling for concrete action plans, and grants rather than loans.

New loans are not the answer, G8 told
Debt campaigners from around the world have called on G8 leaders to face up to their role in creating the food crisis and climate change, as they meet in Japan.

Forget Jay Z - it was all about Dropping the Debt
It wasn't just the mudless sunny days and the controversial choice of Jay Z as headline act that set Glastonbury apart from the norm this year.

Over 10,000 chains delivered to UK government
Debt campaigners formed a giant white band around Parliament Square today to call on the UK to drop more debts, ahead of the G8 meeting in Japan next week.

$347m of Togo's debt cancelled
On 12 June, the Paris Club of creditors agreed to cancel US$347 million of Togo's debt and impose a moratorium on remaining debt payments to themselves until 2011.

Pick Up the Pace: UK responds to campaign
The UK Government used the tenth anniversary of the Birmingham human chain last week to make two new announcements on debt.

1,000 campaigners join Journey to Justice
Over 1,000 campaigners were in Birmingham on Sunday to mark ten years since the G8 human chain, and call on world leaders to drop another $400 billion of debt.

Drop the Debt Fast gets under way
Campaigners around the country have begun the Drop the Debt Fast - a rolling hunger strike to demand faster debt cancellation for the world's poorest countries.

World Bank hosts illegitimate debt roundtable
After months, and indeed years, of pushing the World Bank to engage with the issue, this week the illegitimate debt campaign moved an important step forward.

Gambia gets $140m debts cancelled
After seven years, Gambia has at last completed the international debt cancellation process, which will see around 140 million dollars of its debts wiped out.

UK lets World Bank off the hook
Campaigners have expressed disappointment at the UK Government’s decision not to use the World Bank's latest funding round to demand concrete action on conditions.

Liberia to enter debt cancellation process
Liberia’s arrears to the IMF and African Development Bank have finally been cleared, opening the way for the country to start the multilateral debt relief process.

Stalemate at World Bank and IMF annual meetings
Last weekend the World Bank and International Monetary Fund held their annual meetings in Washington DC, where several debt-related issues were on the agenda.

Debt campaigners hold Global Week of Action
Jubilee campaigners in more than 60 countries have taken part in a global week of action against debt – and the financial institutions harming the world’s poor.

New figures show extent of vulture fund threat
A new report has revealed that vulture funds and other commercial creditors are still chasing a staggering $1.8 billion from some of the world’s poorest countries.

North East MPH take part in Great North Run
For the fifth year in a row Jubilee Debt Campaigners from the Newcastle area took on Britain’s biggest sporting challenge and competed in the Great North Run.

Thomas Sankara anniversary to be marked
On 15 October it will be 20 years since the death of Thomas Sankara, the President of Burkina Faso who called for repudiation of debts.

Ecuador instigates debt audit
The launch of the world’s first government-backed debt audit, in Ecuador, is a significant step forward in the illegitimate debt campaign.