2nd September 2025
Debt Justice (formerly Drop the Debt which organised the Jubilee Debt Campaign in 2000) has this year (another Jubilee Year) launched the Cancel Debt, Choose Hope campaign.(1) The ask is, sadly, still the same: calling on the richest nations to cancel the debts of the poorest – the most vulnerable. Research shows that lower-income country debt payments have TREBLED over the last decade, and right now fifty-four countries are in crisis. (2)
The injustice of this debt crisis means that interest payments to the rich are made at the expense of the poor. As Bernard Anaba in Ghana recently explained:“Public services are in crisis – pupils aren’t getting exercise books and some schools don’t even have chairs or desks for the children. Food prices have sky-rocketed and in hospitals, patients are asked to pay for medication that is meant to be free.”(3)
You can sign their petition here – https://act.debtjustice.org.uk/canceldebt?utm_medium=impactstack&utm_source=website&utm_campaign=Global_south_debt&utm_content=jub25&_gl=1*1g79pn*_ga*NzQxMTM1NzU5LjE3NTQ1NjIyNzk.*_ga_NTSKCLSS55*czE3NTY3OTgwMDkkbzIkZzEkdDE3NTY3OTg2NjEkajU1JGwwJGgw*_ga_PH0J1TDVZM*czE3NTY3OTgwMTEkbzIkZzEkdDE3NTY3OTg2NjAkajU3JGwwJGgw
Or take further action here – https://debtjustice.org.uk/get-involved
(2) https://debtjustice.org.uk/news/2025-the-year-we-cancel-debt-choose-hope
(3) ditto
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