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From the BBC – On the trail of the vultures picking over Liberia’s debt

From Blog the Debt (Jubilee USA)

VIDEO: On the trail of the vultures picking over Liberia’s debt

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 11:55 AM PST

Watch BBC Newsnight’s great report on vulture funds in Liberia. It really makes the complicated story of vulture funds come to life.

BBC reports: Over the last five years […]

JUSTICE, PEACE and HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLIANCE: perceptions, illusions and realities – towards a universal template for social justice.

A paper for the Towards Restorative Justice Conference University of Sydney 7-9 December 2009

Howard Bell NSW Regional Committee, Amnesty International

Christian leaders in the Middle East see boycott and disinvestment as tools of non violence for justice, peace and security for all.

The Kairos Palestine Document

A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love from the heart of Palestinian suffering.

We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in […]

URGENT ACTION – VIETNAMESE PRIEST FALLS SERIOUSLY ILL IN PRISON

from Amnesty International.

Activist for Human Rights in Vietnam

Imprisoned pro-democracy activist and Catholic priest Father Nguyen Van Ly suffered a suspected stroke on 14 November in Viet Nam. He is conscious but paralyzed on one side. He has been moved to a prison hospital in the Vietnamese capital, Ha Noi. He may be […]

The Earth Community Booklet from International JPIC- a Good Resource for your Parish

This booklet is from the heads of International Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) and is based on the See Judge Act model in a similar way to the one prepared by the FFCP Social Justice Group which was available at the recent SJ DAY. It includes a prayer/reflection section which would be good for all parish groups to engage in. […]

From Geneva: A Challenge to Illegitimate Debt, by Neil Watkins

Posted by jubileeusa on 18 November 2009 at 11:47 AM

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend a meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva about how the global economic crisis is affecting developing countries’ debt situations.

The conference brought together more than 350 participants from […]

Should the Palestinians declare and independent state? Jeff Halper discusses.

Jeff Halper – Thu 19/11/2009 8:21 PM

(Jeff Halper is the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). ). The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions is based in Jerusalem and has chapters in the United Kingdom and the United States. Please visit his websites: www.icahd.org, www.icahduk.org, www.icahdusa.org

OK, so the Palestinian Authority […]

No Partner for Peace: Our American Problem

by Jeff Halper (Jeff Halper is the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). He can be reached at <jeff@icahd.org>.) 5-11-2009

It was as if some official, perhaps one of President Obama’s “czars,” like the Czar for Demolishing American Credibility, had orchestrated a systematic campaign to isolate the US from […]

Pathway Through the Maze

What living conditions do you imagine when you hear the words “filthy”, “foul” and “slum”? Rubbish heaps in the third world? Actually, such living conditions are not uncommon in all areas of Sydney. Catholic Community Services has also been training other community agencies to support early intervention for those living in squalor. Over 680 […]

Sydney Peace Rize

City of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture 2009 “Breaking the Australian Silence” by John Pilger It is said that a prophet is without honour in his own country. This year, the Sydney Peace Foundation and the City of Sydney confound that saying by honouring John Pilger’s journalism, books and films and all they have contributed […]