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5 December 2000   Editor : Joe Chilaizya
 
News
Pope calls for forgiveness of poorest countries' debts
Pope John Paul II gives support to calls for urgent debt cancellation for the poorest countries and criticises the existence of widespread poverty today.
From: World Bank
More about: Debt Cancellation, Poverty 		  

Britain to drop the debt!
Britain is to renounce its right to interest payments on £1bn owed by developing countries, in a last-ditch attempt to secure financial help for 41 of the world's poorest states before an end-of-year deadline set by anti-poverty campaigners.
From: Guardian Unlimited
More about: United Kingdom, Debt Cancellation, Debt Relief, HIPC 		  

Jubilee 2000 responds to Chancellor's announcement
Jubilee 2000 UK director Ann Pettifor says British decision to stop taking money from poor nations is encouraging, but to make a real difference, Chancellor Gordon Brown must now persuade other creditors to follow suit.
From: Jubilee 2000
More about: United Kingdom, Debt Relief, HIPC 		  

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Analysis
AIDS and Debt: Africa's deadly combination
The combination of AIDS and Debt has been deadly - and has highlighted more than ever the scandal of the debt crisis which has extracted scarce resources from impoverished people.
Image: World AIDS Day 2000 logo © Unicef http://www.unicef.org
From: Jubilee 2000
More about: Zambia, Debt Cancellation, Debt Relief, Health, United Nations 		    

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Campaigns
No new trade round
Development campaigners warn that moves by rich countries to launch of a new round of negotiations will meet with massive resistance and are doomed to fail, until the existing agreements have been reviewed and repaired and the WTO reformed.
From: World Development Movement
More about: WTO & Trade 		  

Jubilee 2000 lights flame of hope
Thousands of debt campaigners, including Bob Geldof, gathered in Trafalgar Square at dusk on December 2 for the lighting of the 'Jubilee 2000 flame', to symbolise the continuation of the fight for debt cancellation.
From: Jubilee 2000
More about: United Kingdom, Debt Cancellation 		  

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OP-ED
Debt Campaign: The struggle continues
by Ann Pettifor

How is it that a radical and global social movement - Jubilee 2000 - has erupted on the world scene apparently from nowhere? And can it be true that Jubilee 2000 has mobilised millions - around the arcane and deeply boring subject of debt? Surely not...

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From: Africa Policy Information Center