Ukrainian and European civil society organisations are warning that hedge funds could make billions out of Ukraine, financed indirectly by Western aid. In a statement released today the campaigners call for legal protections to ensure speculators cannot demand billions of dollars in payments from the GDP-linked warrants.
Written by Christina Fenandez-Duran (Oxfam Interim Head of EU Office), Javier García de la Oliva (Head of Country Engagement and Transformation Europe and Americas at ActionAid International) and Jean Saldanha (Director at the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad)).
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Fifty days ahead of the 4th UN Financing for Development Conference (FfD4), a coalition of nine EU NGOs are launching the campaign “Era of Justice” to show how the multiple crises our world is living are deeply interconnected and to call on governments to take decisive action.
A new toolkit to support action on debt justice over the course of 2025, linking to the Jubilee 2025 campaign and the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development.
Over 200 civil society organisations and individuals have sent a letter urging European leaders to commit to a transformative and ambitious agenda of financial architecture reform at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development.
In response to the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings, Eurodad says that the two institutions 'cannot be entrusted with the responsibility of the international economic system.'
Join Eurodad and partners at the Civil Society Policy Forum and World Bank Group - International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings this April.
Written by by Evelien van Roemburg (Oxfam International), Javier García de la Oliva (ActionAid) and Jean Saldanha (Eurodad).
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