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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 […]

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A 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. […]

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Fighting 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 […]

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Under 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.

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Drop 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 […]

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Passing 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.

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The 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 […]

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Decarbonising 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 […]

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Exiting 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…

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A 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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