Blogs
End the debt trap: Cancel Zambia’s debt
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 6 July 2021
Campaigns: Debt
Briefing and leaflet for Scottish supporters Covid-19 exacerbated an already growing sovereign debt crisis across much of the global south. The pandemic is predicted to push over a hundred and […]
Read moreA Five Step Plan for a People’s Vaccine
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 20 May 2021
Campaigns: Pharma
People’s Vaccine Policy Manifesto May 2021 The world is facing a vaccine apartheid – billions of people are unprotected facing the threat of illness and death from this cruel disease. […]
Read moreFighting for a People’s Vaccine briefing
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 10 February 2021
Campaigns: Pharma
Covid-19 vaccines are crucial to help end this pandemic. But as wealthy countries roll out vaccine programmes, countries in the global south are left with little or none. Even though […]
Read moreUnder the radar: Private sector debt and coronavirus in developing countries
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 14 October 2020
Campaigns: Debt, General
The G20 must step in and compel private creditors to cancel the debts of developing countries to avoid the loss of many more lives.
Read moreDrop Debt, Save Lives Supporter Toolkit
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 28 August 2020
Campaigns: Debt
Covid-19 and the debt crisis in developing countries As the world continues to battle coronavirus, the pandemic is wreaking havoc on the economies of lower-income countries and could push 500 […]
Read morePassing the buck on debt relief
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 16 July 2020
Campaigns: Debt
How the failure of the private sector to cancel debts is fueling a crisis across the developing world. Produced in partnership with Oxfam, Christian Aid, Jubilee Debt Campaign and Citizens for Financial Justice.
Read moreThe future of aid after DfID: Shocking development projects supported by the UK
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 6 July 2020
Campaigns: Aid
With the government having recently announced plans to abolish the Department for International Development (DfID) and give control of UK aid policy to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), many […]
Read moreDecarbonising aid: why the UK must end its overseas fossil fuel financing before COP26
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 12 June 2020
Campaigns: Aid, Climate
Under the terms of the Paris Agreement, signed April 2016, the UK government committed to making global financial flows “consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient […]
Read moreExiting the permanent crisis in the global south
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 23 April 2020
Campaigns: Aid, Trade
The case for a global financial reset in the wake of Covid-19
Even in the wealthiest countries on earth, years of austerity combined with ‘market knows best’ ideology has hollowed out our ability to deal with coronavirus. But for many countries in the global south, the weakness of the public sector was not a democratic choice but was imposed by rich countries and international institutions like the IMF…
Read moreA Covid-19 vaccine should be affordable for all
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 27 March 2020
Campaigns: Pharma
As coronavirus rips through the world, the race is on to find a vaccine for Covid-19. There are already reports of promising candidates as well the start of human trials. […]
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