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Jubilee Debt Campaign

Type: Organization

Name: Jubilee Debt Campaign

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Betting on hunger: The campaign to stop food speculation

BirminghamBanks are earning huge profits from betting on food prices in unregulated financial markets, creating instability and pushing up global food prices, forcing millions into deeper poverty. Since the start of WDM’s campaign to regulate food speculation ... [Published WDM - May 13 2013]

Entities: Speculations, Jubilee Debt Campaign, Birmingham

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 2 reports

UK backed arms loans to dictators

Newly released Foreign Office documents reveal how Britain backed arms loans to repressive regimes across the world.According to figures released by the UK government, Britain financed exports to despotic regimes in countries such as Egypt, Indonesia ... [Published Press tv - May 05 2013]

Entities: United Kingdom, Dictator, UK Government

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

UK ready to sell aircraft to junta just days before Falklands attack

Britain was offering to sell arms to the Argentinian dictatorship just three days before the invasion of the Falkland Islands, newly released documents in the National Archive show. The British ambassador in Buenos Aires sent a telegram to the Ministry ... [Published The Independent - May 05 2013]

Entities: Bomber, Surface-to-Air Missile, Argentina

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

World Bank Group

Tanzanian activists call for non-payment of World Bank water debt

Campaigners in Tanzania have called on their government not to repay $61.5 million to the World Bank on loans for a water project which yielded ‘no positive results’.The Dar es Salaam water supply and sanitation project, which lasted from 2003 to 2010, ... [Published WDM - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: World Bank Group, Tanzania, Water debt, Biwater, Dar es Salaam

First reported Feb 27 2013 - Updated Feb 27 2013 - 1 reports

Markit Group Ltd

Argentina back in court

Argentina squares off today in a U.S. Appeals court with the so-called holdout creditors who are demanding $1.3 billion in payments on defaulted bonds. A decision will probably take a few days but supporters of both sides have been mustering. Emails ... [Published Global Investing - Feb 27 2013]

Entities: Argentina, Jubilee Debt Campaign, Markit Group Ltd, Hedge Fund, Task Force

First reported Feb 14 2013 - Updated Feb 14 2013 - 1 reports

Whose development is it? Investigating the Mozal aluminium smelter in Mozambique

A highly profitable aluminium factory in Mozambique is paying just 1 per cent tax, despite half of the smelter being funded by foreign governments to help develop the country. A new report by Jubilee Debt Campaign in the UK and Justica Ambiental in Mozambique ... [Published Zunia.org RSS - Feb 14 2013]

Entities: Mozal, Mozambique, Aluminium

Quotes

Tim Jones, policy officer at Jubilee Debt Campaign, said: "The UKUK government has a horrendous record of backing loans for damaging or useless British exports. The Liberal Democrats have a policy to audit the resulting debts, and cancel those from unjust loans to dictators. But Vince Cable has refused to do so since he has been in charge of the department responsible."

How British loans funded dictators arms spree [Published The Independent - May 05 2013]

...islands on 2 April – was the sale of Canberra jet bombers and the refurbishment of other bombers that Britain had previously sold to the regime. "BAe [British Aerospace] is committed to making a proposal [to refurbish the planes] … if all goes well here BAe could move further up the class in time" Ambassador Williams wrote

UK ready to sell aircraft to junta just days before Falklands attack [Published The Independent - May 05 2013]

Agenda Participation 2000 Executive Director, Moses Kulaba says, "Is it necessary for the government to repay money borrowed to implement a project with the World Bank when there are no results?" Mr Kulaba told the Tanzania Daily News that to a large extent, the project failed to improve water supply and the billing system, and both the government...

Tanzanian activists call for non-payment of World Bank water debt [Published WDM - Apr 30 2013]

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Betting on hunger: The campaign to stop food sp... [Published WDM - May 13 2013]
UK backed arms loans to dictators [Published Press tv - May 05 2013]
How British loans funded dictators arms spree [Published The Independent - May 05 2013]
UK ready to sell aircraft to junta just days be... [Published The Independent - May 05 2013]
Tanzanian activists call for non-payment of Wor... [Published WDM - Apr 30 2013]
Argentina back in court [Published Global Investing - Feb 27 2013]
Whose development is it? Investigating the Moza... [Published Zunia.org RSS - Feb 14 2013]

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Argentina back in court [Published Global Investing - Feb 27 2013] Argentina squares off today in a U.S. Appeals court with the so-called holdout creditors who are demanding $1.3 billion in payments on defaulted bonds. A decision will probably take a few days but supporters of both sides have been mustering. Emails ...
Whose development is it? Investigating the Moza... [Published Zunia.org RSS - Feb 14 2013] A highly profitable aluminium factory in Mozambique is paying just 1 per cent tax, despite half of the smelter being funded by foreign governments to help develop the country. A new report by Jubilee Debt Campaign in the UK and Justica Ambiental in Mozambique ...