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International Debt
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- KAIROS Debt E-Bulletin, Fall 2007: Bank of the South Challenges
Hegemony of World Bank and IMF.
- World leaders
must deliver on AIDS promises: opinion/editorial (14 July
2006)
- G8 Inaction Betrays People
with AIDS (Global Economic Justice Report, Vol 5, No. 2-3,
July 2006)
- KAIROS
briefing paper #1: Will US Debt Lead to a Financial Crisis? (February
2006)
- Declaration of the Second
South-North Consultation, Havana: "Resistance and Alternatives
to Debt Domination" (30 September 2005)
- Reflections on the Gleneagles
2005 G8 Summit
- KAIROS—Full Analysis
of G8 Debt proposal
- KAIROS Summary Analysis of
the June 11, 2005 G8 Debt Proposal
- Join the call for debt
cancellation now! (Revised)
(April 2005)
- KAIROS background paper on international
debt (April 2005)
- KAIROS analysis
of debt recommendations in the Commission for Africa Report
(March 2005)
- KAIROS’ analysis of
the debt package proposed by the February 2005 G7 Finance Ministers
meeting (February 10 2005)
- KAIROS Submission to Department
of Finance: The Commission for Africa
(December 23, 2004)
- Statement from Jubilee South:
In the face of debt and disaster in Asian (December, 2004)
- Africa Social Forum Statement
on Debt, December 14, 2004
- KAIROS Statement:
Global Day of Action Against Debt Domination December 5, 2004
- KAIROS Co-Convenes Illegitimate Debt
Tribunal
- International Peoples' Tribunal
on the Debt
See also
For over twenty years, the Canadian churches have pressed for the
cancellation of the debts of the world’s poorest countries.
These debts push countries into an endless downward spiral of new
loans taken out to repay old debts.
The ‘structural adjustment programs’ which are attached
to new loans create ever deepening poverty, and strip countries
of the resources needed to house, feed, and educate their peoples.
Many other debts are ‘illegitimate’, for they flow from
loans taken out by corrupt regimes or were not used to meet the
needs of the people.
We believe that the debts owed by the poorest countries must be
cancelled because they are imposing extreme hardship.
Between 1998 and 2001, Canadians joined millions of global citizens
in a “Jubilee” campaign for debt cancellation. KAIROS
continues the debt cancellation work of the Canadian Ecumenical
Jubilee Initiative.
We invite you to take action with us are we work towards:
- 100% cancellation of debt of the poorest countries
- Assessment and cancellation of all illegitimate debts
- An end to Structural Adjustment Programs
- The replacement of the International Financial Institutions
with multilateral financial institutions that respond to the development
needs of the entire global community.
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