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An unprecedented number of Sovereign Defaults have happened in the past 2 years according to a Fitch report. From Argentina, Ecuador and Surinam, to Ghana,

Should the World Bank and International Monetary Fund be subject to a people’s tribunal at the Lynnwood, Pretoria office?

We are the TRNUC Association of Victims, an end product of the TRNUC’s Commissioners creation of a new Committee under the TRNUC Act 2018 Section 8 (2) (f) made up ...

Greece: Information Note of the “Committee on Family Law and Consensus Joint Custody” 27 May by Committee on Family Law and Consensus Joint Custody Since November 2020, 24 women’s organizations and collectives have set up the “Committee on Family Law and Consensus Joint Custody”, expressing our strong concern about the Greek government’s initiative to introduce a bill entitled “Reforms regarding parent-child relations and other issues of family law”, which changes and a...

Stop blaming the victims of the microfinance crisis! 24 May by Nedha de Silva The exponential growth of the microfinance industry in Sri Lanka does not correspond with its contribution to reducing poverty. Instead, it has escalated indebtedness among women, pushed them below subsistence and made victims of both personal and structural violence. The Satyagraha which commenced on March 8 by the Collective of Women Affected by Microfinance in Hingurakgoda, Polonnaruwa, was the latest mani...

In Chile, the traditional parties collapse 19 May by “New constitution now” Since Sunday night, the Chilean press is piling on the superlatives in its attempt to describe the political earthquake that has shaken the country from the Andes to the Atacama desert to the cold Magallanes region: an electoral shock, the collapse of the traditional parties, a ‘night of the long knives’ for the right, the beginning of the end for Pinochet’s legacy, an enormous defeat for president Se...

Women and Nature: Towards an Ecosocialist Feminism 4 May by It was hot outside that day. In the remote area of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa a young man watched as five men approached him on the porch. “Could we have a drink?” one of them asked. As they finished the water they asked if they could go inside and thank the woman that lived there. The young man led them in the front door. Moments later shots rang out as the men gunned down the young man’s grandmother and envir...

Latin America and the Caribbean are facing a serious debt crisis Part 4 In the previous three parts we have observed the evolution of the DCs’ external debt over the last twenty years. The first part shows a dramatic increase of indebtedness, which multiplied by 2.5 with a steep acceleration from 2008 onward. The second part highlights the main threats on the DCs’ external debt, among which the growing significance of bonds, the evolution of interest rates and the depreciation of their cur...