Debt and Development Coalition Ireland

PARLIAMENTARIAN DECLARATION

Parliamentarian Declaration- ask your TDs and MEPs To Lift the Lid on Illegitimate debts

How? By getting them to sign up and support the INTERNATIONAL call for more just financial relationships between rich and poor countries.

What is the parliamentarian's declaration for shared responsibility about?

"To prevent repeated rounds of unsustainable and irresponsible lending and borrowing, the participation of parliaments is fundamental. This will help to ensure that loan agreements really do reflect the aspirations of the citizens of developing countries around the world"

Find out if your public representatives have signed up and take action

REPORT: International Tax Justice Learning Day

Report On The International Tax Justice Learning Day

On the 9th of June 2008, Debt and Development Coalition Ireland hosted a Tax Justice Learning Day in Dublin.

We were joined by John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network, Francis Weyzig of SOMO, and Alex Cobham from Christian Aid UK.

We learnt how a more globalised world means that the tax policies of one country increasingly affect the welfare of people in another. The issue is as important for development as the debt crisis, and like the debt crisis, will need to be resolved before real development can occur.

Take Action Cancel All Illegitmate Debts NOW!

Cancel All Illegitimate Debts Now!

The Problem: Impoverished countries owe $2 trillion ($2,000,000,000,000) in foreign debts.

The Injustice: A large amount of the money owed is either;

Unpayable
Payments causing unacceptable suffering and deprivation especially in areas of health and education
- or -
Illegitimate
The money was lent irresponsibly for useless projects or given on unfair terms with damaging conditions attached.

Remember Debt Cancellation works!
Because of debt cancellation:

Uganda - 5million more children are in Primary School
Malawi - 3,600 new teachers in schools per year
Tanzania - 32,000 new classrooms built
Mozambique - free childhood immunisation available

Action Alert - Debt and Development Coalition are calling on you to support Developing countries in their fight to eliminate poverty and improve their peoples quality of life

How - by writing to your local TDs and asking them:

Will they support your call on the World Bank and International Monetary
Fund (IMF) to hold a public inquiry into WB/IMF loans?
Will they recognise the existence of illegitimate debts and call for the
cancellation of all illegitimate debts in the new government?
Will they sign the parliamentarians declaration on illegitimate debt?

* Download Parliamentarian Declaration and get your local TD to sign Click Here
* You can find more information on illegitimate Debt Click Here

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made, and can be overcome by the actions of human beings.

-Nelson Mandela, 2005

MORE ON ILLEGITMATE DEBT

For a Focus on Illegitmate Debt Click here

Illegitimate Debt Claims of the G7

If the Group of Seven (G7) nations are serious about cleaning up corruption and promoting good governance and transparency, they should look to the past.

A damning new NGO report presenting case studies of past loans made by the Group of Seven nations (Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the U.K. and the U.S.), reveals that some loans are not legitimate and that the lenders are at fault.

click here "Skeletons in the Cupboard: Illegitimate Debt Claims of the G7"
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100% DEBT CANCELLATION AT WHAT COST? - WATER PRIVATISATION

Profiting from peoples lives - Privatisation of Water Supply in the Philippines

Read more on the water privatisation issue in the News section click here