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Food crisis: cancel Haiti's debt NOW

Haiti is in the grip of the food crisis currently affecting much of the world, as soaring prices cripple many poor countries. Yet Haiti is also shelling out $1 million every week in debt repayments, while its people starve. Take action >>

		New loans are not the answer, G8 told Debt campaigners from around the world called on G8 leaders to face up to their role in creating the food crisis and climate change, as they held their meeting in Japan. Read more

		Pick Up the Pace! Debt relief is coming too slowly, and is too limited, for millions of people living in poverty. Please ask the UK government to get things moving - and drop ALL the debt. Take action

		Debt relief is 'unfinished business' - new report At least another 400 billion dollars of 'unpayable' poor country debt must be cancelled, Jubilee Debt Campaign warns in a new report, released on the tenth anniversary of the Birmingham human chain in 1998. More

		Become a Jubilee School or Congregation Jubilee Debt Campaign’s new initiative is designed to help schools, and congregations of all religious traditions, to become more active in the fight for economic justice and against poor country debt. More

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"I encourage you in your advocacy for total debt cancellation for poor countries because, frankly, it is a scandal that we are forced to choose between basic health and education for our people and repaying historical debt."

President Mkapa of Tanzania, 2005