The Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative works with many sister campaigns in a wide variety of countries, particularly on the campaign to cancel the debts of the world's poorest nations. We provide here a list of links to some of these campaigns as well as a description of Inter-Church Actions Southern Partner Jubilee Fund.

Contents:

• Information on Jubilee Partners

• Key International Statements

• Links

• Inter-Church Action Southern Partners Jubilee Fund

Information on Jubilee Partners

• A report from the visit of Father Albert Suatengco of the Philippine-Asia Jubilee Campaign Against Debt (PAJCAD) to Toronto in late July: "If we want to change this global system, we need to do this together" (July 1999).

• A speech by Susan Granada of the Philippines Jubilee Network given at the Toronto Chain Reaction Event (June 1999).

• Global Chain Reaction Events around the World: Events which took place in the weeks before the Cologne G-7 Summit (June 1999).

Key International Statements

See the Debt Declarations Page for a more extensive list of statements as well as in-depth debt campaign analysis.

• Declaration the 1998 International Meeting in Rome: A Jubilee Call for Debt Cancellation and Economic Justice (17 November 98)

• : Statement of Latin American Jubilee 2000 Debt Campaigns gathered in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in January of 1999.

• : Statement from the Southern African Debt Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa in March of 1999.

• : Statement of the Philippines Jubilee 2000 Campaign (April 1999)

• The Verdict of the Brazilian Foreign Debt Tribunal: "Life above Debt" (April 1999)

• Towards an ‘Africa Consensus’ on Sustainable Solutions to the Debt Problem (May 19-21, 1999)

• Live Out the Spirit of the Jubilee: Statement of the National Ecumenical Jubilee Conference of the Philippines (July 1- 2, 1999) 

• Jubilee South Rejects Köln Debt Initiative as a Cruel Hoax: Statement of the Jubilee South Coalition concerning the Köln Debt Initiative (22 June 1999)

• The Buenos Aires Declaration: Statement of the Latin American Jubilee 2000 Coalition at its meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina in September of 1999.

• The Jubilee 2000 Statement issued following the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington, DC (September 1999)

• For a Debt Free Millennium: Statement of the South - South Summit held in Gauteng, South Africa from November 18 - 21, 1999.

• Beyond Debt, Beyond 2000: The Final Declaration of the Jubilee Gathering of Central America and the Caribbean (Managua, Nicaragua - July 20-21, 2000). 

• Bring Forth a New Day!: Unity Statement of various Jubilee initiatives in the Philippines on the Occasion of the Group of 8 Summit in Okinawa, Japan (17 July 2000)

• Documents from the Jubilee 2000 International Conference in Okinawa, Japan (July 2000): The Call to G7 Leaders and the Media and Consensus Statements

• The Argentinean Ethical Tribunal on Debt and Neo-liberal Structural Adjustment (Sept. 2000): Diálogo 2000 (Argentina's Jubilee campaign) coordinated this tribunal to hear civil society's accusations of human rights violations caused by the country's indebtedness.  

• Proposals for Solution of Foreign Debt (Oct. 2000): A statement from the Confederation of Indigenous Nations of Ecuador (CONAIE) to the peoples and governments of the Paris Club. 

• Bolivia at the Paris Club (Oct. 2000): A Statement from the Bolivian Forum Jubilee 2000 on Paris Club debt relief for Bolivia.

• The Dakar Declaration for the Total and Unconditional Cancellation of African and Third World Debt and The Dakar Manifesto: "Africa: from Resistance to Alternatives": Statements from the "Dakar 2000: From Resistance to Alternatives" conference held in Dakar, Senegal from December 11 to 17, 2000.

Links

Inter-Church Action for Development, Relief, and Justice (ICA) is part of the family of eleven ecumenical coalitions in Canada, which work in areas such as human rights, economic justice, peace, and aboriginal rights. ICA's mandate is focused on supporting sustainable human development in the South and coordinating emergency relief efforts. ICA is also a member of the Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative.

In order to support the work of partners in the South in Jubilee related initiatives, ICA has created a Southern Partners Jubilee Fund. The fund is dispersed in several small grants to Southern partner organizations to provide support for Jubilee related activities in the South. An additional grant area has been allocated specifically for North-South exchanges/networking for Jubilee activities.

For more information, contact Inter-Church Action at:

(Southern Partners Jubilee Fund page:

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