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| Cork Training Days on the Injustice of Debt in the Global South |
Cork Training Days on the Injustice of Debt in the Global South
When?
- Wednesday May 14th, 7pm to 9pm
- Wednesday May 21st, 7pm to 9pm
Where?
- Cois Tine, St Mary’s, Pope’s Quay, Cork [access via St Mary’s Church]
Why not take this great opportunity to get up to speed on the injustice of
the debt problem in the Global South?
This training course is divided into two sessions and will provide
participants with a detailed understanding of the debt problem in the
Global South, including a full update on the current situation and lots of
ideas of what can be done from Ireland to tackle the problem. The course
will equip participants to analyse responsibilities in the debt crisis, learn
about the current focus of the global debt cancellation movement and
discuss what activists in Ireland can do to tackle the problem.
Session 1: Will be a half-day training focusing on reviewing progress
toward debt cancellation so far, and charting out the many unresolved
issues in the current debt cancellation debate.
Resource person: Nessa Ní Chasaide (Co-ordinator Debt and Development
Coalition Ireland)
Session 2: Will be an evening discussion with Lidy Nacpil, the leading debt
cancellation activist from the Philippines who has co-ordinated the debt
cancellation movement across the Global South for many years. Lidy will
provide her unique insights into the challenges facing Southern activists
working on the debt issue and outline what kind of solidarity Southern
activists are calling for from the rich world.
It is hoped that after both sessions, participants will feel confident in
discussing the debt problem with others and inspired to continue their
involvement with the issue.
Course Fee:
Members: €10; Non-members: €15;
Unemployed / Asylum seekers: free
To book a place contact:
Laura: EIL, 021 455 1535, 
Gerry / Angelo: SMAs 021 4557760, 
Nessa: Debt and Development Coalition Ireland, ph: 01 8571828,
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| Galway Training Days on the Injustice of Debt in the Global South |
Galway Training Days on the Injustice of Debt in the Global South
When? & Where?
- Saturday May 10th, 10.30am to 1pm (lunch provided)
Harbour Hotel, New Docks Road, Galway City.
- Tuesday May 20th, 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Galway One World Centre, Bridge Mills, Dominick St., Galway City.
Why not take this great opportunity to get up to speed on the injustice of
the debt problem in the Global South?
This training course is divided into two sessions and will provide
participants with a detailed understanding of the debt problem in the
Global South, including a full update on the current situation and lots of
ideas of what can be done from Ireland to tackle the problem. The course
will equip participants to analyse responsibilities in the debt crisis, learn
about the current focus of the global debt cancellation movement and
discuss what activists in Ireland can do to tackle the problem.
Session 1: Will be a half-day training focusing on reviewing progress
toward debt cancellation so far, and charting out the many unresolved
issues in the current debt cancellation debate.
Resource person: Nessa Ní Chasaide (Co-ordinator Debt and Development
Coalition Ireland)
Session 2: Will be an evening discussion with Lidy Nacpil, the leading debt
cancellation activist from the Philippines who has co-ordinated the debt
cancellation movement across the Global South for many years. Lidy will
provide her unique insights into the challenges facing Southern activists
working on the debt issue and outline what kind of solidarity Southern
activists are calling for from the rich world.
It is hoped that after both sessions, participants will feel confident in
discussing the debt problem with others and inspired to continue their
involvement with the issue.
Course Fee:
DDCI / Galway OWC Members: €10; Non-members: €15;
Unemployed / Asylum seekers: free
To book a place contact:
Heike: Galway One World Centre, ph: 091 530590,
Nessa: Debt and Development Coalition Ireland, ph: 01 8571828,
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| Dublin Learning Evening on the Injustice of Debt in the Global South |
Dublin Learning Evening on the Injustice of Debt in the Global South
When?
Where?
- Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square West, Dublin 1
Why not take this great opportunity to get up to speed on the injustice of
the debt problem in the Global South?
This learning evening will provide participants with an improved
understanding of the debt problem in the Global South, including a full
update on the current situation and lots of ideas of what can be done from
Ireland to tackle the problem. Discussion will focus on responsibilities in
the debt crisis and the current focus of the global debt cancellation
movement.
Resource people will include:
Lidy Nacpil, Co-ordinator, Jubilee South, leading debt cancellation activist
from the Philippines who has co-ordinated the debt cancellation
movement across the Global South for many years. Lidy will provide her
unique insights into the challenges facing Southern activists working on
the debt issue and outline what kind of solidarity Southern activists are
calling for from the rich world.
Nessa Ní Chasaide, Co-ordinator, Debt and Development Coalition Ireland.
Nessa will outline progress toward debt cancellation so far, the many
remaining unresolved issues, and Ireland’s role in tackling the problem.
It is hoped that after both sessions, participants will feel confident in
discussing the debt problem with others and inspired to continue their
involvement with the issue.
For more information Contact:
Nessa Ní Chasaide: Debt and Development Coalition Ireland, ph: 01 8571828,
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| Press
Release: Saturday 26 January 2008 |
Irish campaigners called on world leaders
at the Davos summit toput poor people first
with a protest outside the Central Bank in
Dublin on Saturday.
Released by: Africa Centre,
Comhlámh, Christian Aid Ireland, Debt
and Development Coalition Ireland, Latin America
Solidarity Centre, Oxfam Ireland and Trócaire.
Irish NGOs Call on Davos Leaders to Put
Poor People First
Today, Irish development organisations and
campaign groups called on worldleaders to
put the interests of people living in poverty
at the heart of global policy making.
Marking the annual World Economic Forum being
held this week in Davos Switzerland, campaigners
staged a protest in front of the Central Bank
in Dublin's city centre to highlight the effect
of damaging global economic policies on people
in the developing world.
"Powerful global actors are meeting
in Davos. They have the power to take decisions
that will end the exploitation of poor countries.
The global economy has been structured to
benefit rich countries and companies at the
expense of the poor. We need to see a radical
shift in the policies being pursued by these
powerful governments and corporations,"
said Nina Sachau, Policy and Campaigns Officer,
Comhlámh.
 Today's
protest is part of a Global Day of Action
to mark the annual World Social Forum, which
brings together environmental and social justice
campaigners and activists from around the
world. The World Social Forum is this year
being marked by more than 430 events and protests
in 85 countries across the globe highlighting
the impact of profit driven globalisation
on the poor coinciding with the World Economic
Forum.
"Ireland plays a significant role in
shaping global agreements which often favour
business at the expense of ordinary people,"
said Dr. David McNair, Policy and Advocacy
Officer for ChristianAid Ireland. "Trade
agreements, such as the European Union-led
Economic Partnership Agreements open up developing
country markets without regard to the negative
impact on jobs, livelihoods or public services,"
continued Mr.McNair.
Campaigners also criticised the Irish Government's
support for international financial institutions
which impose policies on poor countries and
deepen poverty.
"Ireland is undermining the sovereignty
of impoverished countries bysupporting the
World Bank's practice of imposing economic
policy conditions on poor countries. These
economic policy recommendations have often
had disastrous effects on impoverished countries
around the world. Ireland should insist that
the World Bank cease this outrageous practice
immediately," said Nessa Ní Chasaide
of Debt andDevelopment Coalition Ireland.
 For
more information contact:
Nessa Ní Chasaide,
Debt and Development Coalition Ireland,
ph: 087 7507001
Paul O'Mahony,
Comhlámh,
ph: 087 965 3877
Nina Sachau,
Comhlámh,
ph: 087 9590142
David McNair,
ChristianAid Ireland,
ph: 085 710 5897
Photos: Ignacio Irigoien
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| Campaigners
Accuse Cowen of Hurting Poor Countries by Funding
World Bank |
Press Release
5th December 2007
Released by: Debt and Development Coalition
Ireland
Campaigners Accuse Cowen
of Hurting Poor Countries by Funding World
Bank
A national justice network,
Debt and Development Coalition Ireland, has
accused the Minister for Finance, Brian Cowen,
of hurting poor countries through making a
provision of Euro 90 million to the World
Bank in the budget.
Nessa Ní Chasaide, co-ordinator
of Debt and Development Coalition Ireland
said, "We welcome that the Minister is
living up to Ireland's overall international
aid spending obligations, but he is hurting
the world's poor by giving funding to the
World Bank."
She continued, "By funding
the World Bank, the Minister is undermining
the quality of Ireland's aid programme. The
World Bank hurts poor countries by attaching
economic policy conditions to its aid. We
call on Minister Cowen to re-route this €90
million to other aid mechanisms without economic
conditions."
Photo: Ignacio Irigoien
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| Irish
Campaigners Call on Minister Cowen to Stop Paying
for Poverty |
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Press Release
Monday 12th November 2007
Released by: Africa Centre,
Comhlámh, Christian Aid
Ireland, Debt and
Development Coalition Ireland,
Latin America Solidarity Centre
and Trócaire.
Irish Campaigners Call on Minister
Cowen to Stop Paying for Poverty
As a major World Bank meeting
kicks off in Dublin today, justice
campaigners called on Finance
Minister Brian Cowen to stop paying
for poverty.
The World Bank meeting,
being held in Malahide in Co.
Dublin on Monday and Tuesday,
will bring together the richest
members of the World Bank to decide
how much money to give to the
International Development Association
(IDA), the arm of the World Bank
that lends to the poorest countries
over the next three years.
Nina Sachau of Comhlamh
commented, "By hosting this
event, Ireland has a major opportunity
to send a clear message to the
World Bank that it must fundamentally
change how it does business. It
is unacceptable that the World
Bank gives money to poor countries
with one hand, but takes it away
with the other through imposing
what are often very damaging economic
policy conditions."
 Joanne
Mc Garry of Trócaire added,
"We are calling on Minister
Brian Cowen, as Ireland's representative
to the World Bank, to stop paying
for poverty and to withhold Ireland's
aid from this round of negotiations
at the World Bank unless the Bank
ends the unacceptable practice
of attaching economic conditions
to its aid. Minister Cowen should
instead channel this funding through
other aid mechanisms that do not
impose the same unreasonable demands
on recipient countries."
The World Bank's
practice of linking conditions
to its loans and aid, means that
when an aid package is agreed
between the World Bank and a developing
country, the bank includes a set
of policy recommendations as conditions
that are often legally required
by the Bank before they will disburse
funding. These economic policy
recommendations have often had
highly damaging effects on impoverished
countries around the world.
Nessa Ní
Chasaide of Debt and Development
Coalition Ireland said, "Ireland
has a comparatively good reputation
internationally for delivering
on our overseas aid spending obligations,
and for supporting debt cancellation
for poor countries. We are calling
on Minister Cowen to stand up
for the quality of Ireland's aid
programme by ensuring an end to
economic conditionality at the
World Bank. This is a moral imperative
if Ireland's commitment to ending
global poverty and inequality
is to be taken seriously."
Futher INformation: The World
Bank has caused massive damage
to the already suffering economies
of developing countries. For example,
in Mali, the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund (IMF) made their
aid conditional on the privatisation
of the electricity sector and
the liberalisation and privatisation
of the cotton sector. Liberalisation
of the cotton sector has caused
three million Malian farmers to
endure a 20 per cent drop in the
price they received for their
cotton in 2005. This is disastrous
as 90% of Malians live on less
than US$ 2 per day.
Even so, the World Bank ensured
the withholding of aid from Mali
on the grounds of its failure
to privatise its cotton industry.
To add insult to injury, private
ownership of the Malian electricity
company has resulted in minimal
improvement in electricity coverage
and spiralling of costs for poor
people in Mali.
A recent study by the European
Network on Debt and Development
of recent World Bank lending to
the poorest countries shows that
while the overall application
of World Bank conditionality is
falling, economic policy conditions,
especially in areas related to
privatisation and liberalisation,
still make up one quarter of all
conditions applied by the Bank.
See www.eurodad.org for the
report entitled 'Untying the Knots:
How the World Bank is failing
to deliver real change on conditionality'.
Photo: Ignacio
Irigoien
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| 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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| Historic
breakthrough on debt crisis. |
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Ecuador Launches Historic Debt Audit Commission
- 2007-07-27
On 23 July, in Guayaquil Ecuador, the Ecuadorian
Ministry of Economy and Finance launched the
world's first debt audit commission to have
the full support and involvement of the government.
Read more
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| Vulture's
wings clipped by judgment, April 2007. |
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The vulture fund targeting Zambia has been told
it will get around $15.5 million - far short
of the $55 million it was claiming, but still
a huge sum for a country where 80% of people
live on less than $1 a day.
Read more
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| Make
good on the MDG's promise |
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UK Prime Minister Gordan Brown in a speech
at the UN (31'07'07 on global poverty said the
Millennium Development Goals were "a million
miles" from being met. "To address
the worst of poverty, we need to summon up the
best of humanity, and I want to summon into
existence a great coalition of conscience in
pursuit of the greatest of causes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk
Action Alert: Campaigners calls on the
Irish government to make good on the
Millennium Development Goals promise
Get involved
here
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| DDCI
- Press Release - 18/05/07 |
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WOLFOWITZ LATE RESIGNATION MERELY SRATCHES SURFACE
OF NEED FOR REFORM
Irish anti-poverty campaigners, alongside campaigners
from around the world, have said the forthcoming
resignation of World Bank president, Paul Wolfowitz,
is inadequate and that the Bank is in far deeper
need of reform.
Read
more
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| DDCI
- Press Release - 17/05/07 |
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IRISH CAMPAIGNERS DISMAYED AT IRELAND'S ROLE IN
WOLFOWITZ CRISIS
Irish campaigners have expressed dismay that
the Canadian chair of the group in which Ireland
is represented at the World Bank appears to be
supporting Paul Wolfowitz in the current crisis
surrounding his leadership role at the World Bank.
Read
more
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| Wolfowitz
undermining fight against poverty |
Failure of World Bank President, Paul Wolfowitz,
to resign as president of the World Bank is making
a mockery of the international fight against poverty
and inequality.
Read more
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| Report
from WB/IMF Spring Meetings |
Co-ordinator of Debt and Development Coalition Ireland,
Nessa Ní Chasaide, travelled to Washington
to participate in planning meetings with activists
from around the world on World Bank and IMF issues.
Read
Nessa Ní Chasaide report
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| April
15th - WB/IMF Spring Meetings |
Failure to Sack Wolfowitz A Betrayal of the Poor
The World Bank's failure to take a stand on whether
its President Paul Wolfowitz should be forced
to leave his post has further eroded the credibility
of the Bank as an organisation that is meant to
serve the needs of impoverished people.
Read more
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| Saturday
April 14th '07 - WB/IMF Spring Meetings
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Activists Say Wolfowitz Scandal Exposes Urgent
Need for World Bank Reform
Nessa Ní Chasaide, co-ordinator of Debt
and Development Coalition Ireland commented from
Washington, “The personal scandal surrounding
Wolfowitz highlights the urgent need to address
the deep lack of integrity of the World Bank as
a development institution. We call on the Irish
government to demand the immediate resignation
of Wolfowitz and to seriously tackle the fundamental
inequalities and lack of democracy at the World
Bank”.
Read more
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Stop
the Vultures Undermining Debt Cancellation in
Zambia
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OUTRAGE
AS VULTURE FUND SWOOPS ON ZAMBIAN FINANCIAL RESOURCES
Debt cancellation campaigning groups
expressed outrage as a UK High Court ordered the
Zambian government to pay a U.S. based debt collecting
company, or so-called "Vulture Fund",
Donegal International.
Donegal international a '"vulture" fund
seeking more than US$55m (EUR42m) from Zambia
had its wings clipped in the UK High Court on
24th April 2007 by the judge who limited its claim
to US$15.5m (approx EUR11m) and cut its award
of costs because of its "dishonesty".
The judge rules that the 2003 agreement between
Donegal International and Zambia was legal but
that the ratcheting up of the original outstanding
amount US$16m to US$55m was penal and struck it
out. The judge repeatedly criticised Donegal owner
Michael Sheehan and other witnesses Philip O'Rourke
and Fisho Mwale, a former Mayor of Lusaka, for
dishonesty.
While Debt Campaigners also cautiously welcomed
the judgement that saw the Donegal's claim on
Zambia reduced by $40m., they are now calling
for immediate action by the upcoming G-8 summit
meeting from 6-8 June 2007, in Germany, to address
this legal but immoral action by greedy corporations
like Donegal International. 'Vulture fund' companies
are swooping in to buy poor countries' debt at
hugely discounted prices, and then suing for the
full amount plus interest and punitive damages.
It's completely legal, and it's happening right
now! Who's next Cameroon, Sierra Leone....
TAKE
ACTION NOW - CLICK HERE
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LIBERIA'S
DEBT CRISIS
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Urgent Action Required
Should the Liberian People be forced to repay
outstanding debt to the International Monetary
Fund(IMF), World Bank and the African Development
Bank?
Liberia is a country emerging frrom over twenty-five
years of protracted civil conflict. War has devastated
the country. Liberians enjoy a life expectancy
of just 39-40 years (Ireland 88 years). 80% live
below the poverty line (€1 a day) and there
is 85% unemployment.
In October 2005, the country held its first democratic
elections and Ellen Johnson-Saileaf was elected
to power as Africa's first female Head of State.
Liberia's President enjoys the popular support
of both Liberians and the international community.
Her government has stated its commitment to fight
poverty and stamp-out corruption.
Several EU Member States are substantial creditors
to Liberia
Germany (US$ 232.2 mn), United Kingdom
(US$77.4 mn), Italy (US$51mn), Denmark
(US$17mn), France (US$16mn) Sweden
(US$9mn) and Belgium (US$2.1mn).
One look at the figures reveals that the sums
owed by Liberia to Germany and the United
Kingdom (UK) are almost entirely of interest
and penalties.
Example:
Liberia originally borrowed US$17.9mn from the
UK, because of late payments and penalty charges,
interest alone amounts to US$58.4mn. Liberia now
owes a staggering US$77.4 mn to the UK Government.
| Creditor |
Principal (mn) |
Interest (mn) |
Total (mn) |
| United Kingdom |
US$ 17.9 |
US$ 58.4 |
US$ 77.4 |
| Germany |
US$117.0 |
US$115.1 |
US$232.2 |
Question.
How can EU Governments expect the ordinary Liberian
citizen to repay these debt?(especially when
the country is only emerging from 25years of conflict
and when over 85% of the population are unemployed).
At the moment EU Member States are proposing
that Liberia enters the Heavily Indebted Poor
Countries (HIPC) Initiative in order to qualify
for debt cancellation. This will see Liberia's
debt written-off at the very earliest in 2009
because Liberia must establish a track record
of reforms with the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) and World Bank.
IT GETS WORSE
Liberia cannot enter the HIPC Iniative process
until its substancial arrears (again made up of
penalties and interest charges) to the IMF, World
Bank and African Development Bank are cleared.
These stand at US$1.47bn. Liberia is plainly unable
to pay, so what is the international community
proposing to do?
EU governments (including Ireland!) and the United
States are currently negotiating who will provide
Liberia with new loans and grants in order to
pay-off the substancial US$1.47bn arrears to the
IMF and World Bank (institutions that profess
to be about fighting poverty). This will allow
Liberia to borrow from these institutions again.
This is not good enough. Debt and Development
Coalition Ireland argues that the Liberian debt
is unpayable, some of it is illegitimate and we
join with debt campaigners around the world calling
on European Governments, International Monetary
Fund (IMF) World Bank and the African Development
Bank to recognise the gravity of Liberia's social
and economic situation and cancel the debts unconditionally
and without delay.
We call on our Irish Ministers, Brian Cowen (Minster
for Finance) Dermot Ahern (Minister for Foreign
Affairs) and Conor Lenihan (Minster for Development
Co-operation and Human Rights) to stand up for
the Liberian people by calling on European Union
member states, the World Bank and the IMF to cancel
Liberia’s debts as a matter of urgency. This
is in line with Ireland’s debt policy which
supports 100% debt cancellation for the poorest
countries in our world.
Don't forget, Ireland as United Nations Peacekeepers
are presently serving in Liberia to bring about
long term stability and peace to Liberia. This
burden of debt could destabalise the country further.
Urgent Action Required
Act now and write
to:
Minister Brian Cowen
Department of Finance, Government Building,
Upper Merrion Street,
Dublin 2
minister@finance.gov.ie
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Minister Dermot Ahern
Department of Foreign Affairs, 80 St.
Stephen's Green,
Dublin 2
minister@dfa.ie
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Minister Conor Lenihan
Irish Aid,
Bishop's Square,
Redmond's Hill,
Dublin 2,
conor.lenihan@dfa.ie
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Request our ministers to support the Liberian
Government’s commitment to rebuild their
nation and to fight poverty, through advocating
that its EU member state colleagues, the World
Bank, and IMF, cancel 100% of Liberia's debts
immediately.
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| THE PARIS CLUB |
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Illegitimate and Odious Debt and The Paris Club
The debt crisis needs to be dealt with systematically.
Prolonged restructuring of loans, that were often
odious or illegitimate to start with, got consolidated
and re-labelled, consequently they are now extremely
difficult to track down to their real origin.
A permanent exit from the debt trap has been
consistently and wilfully impeded by the manner
in which the International Monetary Fund, World
Bank and the Paris Club keep debtor countries
like Senegal, Bolivia, Democratic Republic of
Congo and Nicaragua, in a state of dependence
and subordination.
The Paris Club, now 50 years in existence, is
a cartel of official creditors (19 permanent members,
including Ireland) whose role is to maximize overall
returns on their loans. The Paris Club - a "non-institution",
as it conveniently likes to call itself, is a
blatant example of non-democratic rules and processes.
In the Paris Club the creditors act as judge and
jury in their own case while debtor countries
who are most affected by their decisions, are
only permitted to play a passive role in the process.
Paris Club representatives claim they are not
a development agency and therefore cannot deal
with issues other than mere debt recovery. YET
around the table can be found the official representatives
of those very governments who have solemnly pledged
to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals by 2015.
The question is whether their decisions for
debt restructuring /recovery are creating poverty
or enhancing progress towards the elimination
of poverty. While the latter is the desired outcome,
the former is the reality.
We call for the governments represented in
the Paris Club (including Ireland) to mark the
50 years by ending current practices and move
decisively to a more just solution to the DEBT
CRISIS.
ACTION
Debt and Development Coalition Ireland signed
a EURODAD action on behalf of its members.
Read the text here
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Nessa
Ní Chasaide's
report from the World Social Forum 2007, Nairobi,
Kenya
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20th
- 25th Jan
Nairobi, Kenya |
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This year the World Social Forum brought the
world to Africa as activists, social movements,
networks, coalitions and other progressive forces
from Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean,
North America, Europe and all corners of the African
continent converged on Nairobi, Kenya for five
days of cultural resistance and celebration. Consisting
of panels, workshops, symposia, processions, film
nights and much much more the social forum began
on the 20th of January and wrapped up on the 25th
of January 2007.
Debt & Development Coalition Ireland was represented
by co-ordinator Nessa Ní Chasaide.
For
Nessa Ní Chasaide's report from the World
Social Forum 2007, along with a photo gallery
click here 
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Civil
Society Groups BANNED from attending World Bank
and IMF meetings
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Singapore and Indonesia |
Repression in Singapore at the World Bank
& IMF meeting....
The severe and repressive response of the
Singaporean government to civil society participation
at the World Bank IMF meetings was condemned
by numerous NGO groups in September. The repression
began before the official meetings started
on the 14th Sept'06 and continued until the
meetings concluded their business. 54 civil
society activists have been either, banned,
interrogated, deported or refused entry to
Singapore.
17 of this group were detained and interrogated
in Singapore and 12 of that number have been
deported back to their countries by the Singapore
authorities.
Read the postings from the events as they
happened here |
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| Debt
Cancellation. |
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 HIPC
countries have to sell the rights to water in
return for Debt cancellation.
As part of the conditionalities to be met before
HIPEC countries qualify for debt relief, water
privatisation is one of the most contentious.
Is this forced dependency on the private sector
who's sole motive is profit, the most appropriate
means for delivering water to the world's poorest
people?
Public utilities privatisation in developing
countries is an ongoing disaster and the private
sector is failing to deliver the investment necessary
to meet international targets on water and sanitation
according to a report by the World Development
Movement (WDM) and Public Services International
(PSI)
For more information download
'Pipe dreams: The failure of the private sector
to invest in water services in developing countries'
click here
(279KB)
"Failing
the Poor" Map of countries with water privatisation
(952KB)
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September
2007
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