Action Alerts

• Sign Peti­tion to Can­cel Haiti’s Debt!, –Jubilee USA, June 5, 2008
• Haiti’s Sup­port­ers in Con­gress Need Your Help!, –Rep.s Max­ine Waters and Spencer Bachus, Feb­ru­ary 8, 2008
• Help Get Haiti Debt Can­cel­la­tion Its Day on Capi­tol Hill, –Novem­ber 11, 2007
• Can­cel Debt Fast: Haiti Days of Action, –Octo­ber 4, 2007
• Jubilee USA Action Alert, –March 29, 2007

Haiti Debt Can­cel­la­tion Activist Toolkit

• Haiti Debt Can­cel­la­tion Bill Resource Packet
• Haiti Debt Can­cel­la­tion Bill Extended Resource Packet
• Haiti Debt Can­cel­la­tion Post­card to Con­gress Template
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  • Post­card (Back)

Fact Sheets

• Haiti Debt Fact Sheet
• HIPC and Haiti FAQ Sheet
• HIPC FAQ Sheet

H. Res. 241, the Haiti Debt Can­cel­la­tion Resolution

• Haiti Debt Relief Act. H. Res. 241
• H. Res. 241 Co-Sponsors
• 54 Mem­bers of Con­gress Urge Debt Can­cel­la­tion for Haiti, –Feb­ru­ary 28, 2008 (let­ter to Sec­re­tary of the Treasury) 
• Bipar­ti­san Call for Debt Relief for Haiti, –Rep.s Max­ine Waters and Spencer Bachus, Feb­ru­ary 8, 2008 
• Four mem­bers of Con­gress Urge Col­leagues to Sup­port Debt Can­cel­la­tion for Haiti
• Con­gress­woman Waters Intro­duces Res­o­lu­tion to Can­cel Haiti’s Debts

What’s Wrong With the IMF/World Bank Debt Relief Programs?

• Delayed Debt Can­cel­la­tion Will Only Hurt Haiti, New CEPR Paper Finds, –Cen­ter for Eco­nomic and Pol­icy Research (press release), Decem­ber 12, 2007 
• IMF/World Bank debt relief pro­gram will pro­vide only lim­ited relief, with painful con­di­tions, –U.S. NGOs Work­ing on Poverty and Human Rights in Haiti press release, Sep­tem­ber 20, 2006
• Haiti Debt Relief Con­di­tions Add Injus­tice to Injury, –August, 2007The IDB and Haiti: Deliver us from Debt, –Haiti­Analy­sis, June 5, 2007
• Debt Can­cel­la­tion for Haiti Now, The Right Rev. Jean Zache Duracin, Epis­co­pal Bishop of Haiti, –Jubilee Prayer Break­fast Speech, Octo­ber 16, 2007

Debt Relief Pro­grams and Haiti

• IDB Com­mends Haiti on Progress Toward Debt Relief, –Fator Brazil, March 14, 2008
• MF Exec­u­tive Board Deems Haiti Eli­gi­ble for Assis­tance Under the HIPC Ini­tia­tive, –IMF Press Release, Sep­tem­ber 19, 2006
• Haiti eli­gi­ble for major debt relief, IMF/WB say, –Reuters, Sep­tem­ber 19, 2006
• Haiti Interim Strat­egy Note, FY 07–08, –World Bank, Decem­ber 14, 2006

Gen­eral Infor­ma­tion on Debt and Debt Cancellation

• Are IMF and World Bank Eco­nomic Pol­icy Con­di­tions Under­min­ing the Impact of Debt Can­cel­la­tion?, –Jubilee USA Net­work Brief­ing Note, Feb­ru­ary 2008
• Expanded Debt Can­cel­la­tion: A Key Tool to Fight Global Poverty, –Jubilee USA Net­work Brief­ing Note, Jan­u­ary 2008
• What Is Odi­ous Debt? Yes, we have the answer, –Jubilee USA
• HIPC and Devel­op­ing Coun­tries: FAQ sheet

Debt Can­cel­la­tion News Articles

• United States and Haiti Sign Agree­ment To Can­cel 100% of Bilat­eral Debts, –South Florida Caribbean News, Sep­tem­ber 24, 2009
• Pre­sid­ing Bishop calls Hait­ian debt-relief aid ‘ges­ture of com­pas­sion and human gen­eros­ity’, –April 16, 2009
• Jubilee USA Wel­comes Obama Admin­is­tra­tion Pledge to Relieve Haiti’s Debt, -(press release) April 15, 2009
• 72 Mem­bers of Con­gress Urge Debt Can­cel­la­tion for Haiti, –Feb­ru­ary 26, 2009
• Mem­bers of the U.S. House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Ask Col­leagues To Stand up for Debt Can­cel­la­tion For Haiti, –Feb­ru­ary 4, 2009
• Update — Debt Can­cel­la­tion for Haiti: No Rea­son for Fur­ther Delays, –Cen­ter for Eco­nomic and Pol­icy Research, Decem­ber, 2008
• HAITI: Activists Urge World Bank to Erase Crip­pling Debt, –IPS, Octo­ber 31, 2008
• Zoel­lick “Mis­led” Storm-Struck Haitians Over Debt Can­cel­la­tion, -(Press Release), Octo­ber 30, 2008
• Haiti: Racism and Poverty, –John Maxwell, Jamaica Observer, Octo­ber 25, 2008
• Fast Track for Wall Street Debt Relief, Slow Lane for Liberia, Haiti, –Jubilee USA (press release), Octo­ber 10, 2008
• Tak­ing to the Streets for the Poor, –Indi­anapo­lis Star, Octo­ber 6, 2008
• Res­o­lu­tion of Sol­i­dar­ity and Sup­port for the Peo­ple of Haiti, –Sep­tem­ber 2008
• Haiti’s For­got­ten Emer­gency: Health­care, –The Lancet, August 23, 2008
• Sen­ate For­eign Rela­tions Com­mit­tee Passes Jubilee Act, –Jubilee USA (press release), June 26, 2008
• House Finan­cial Ser­vices Commt­tee Passes Con­gress­woman Waters’ Bill to Can­cel Poor Coun­try Debts, –Press Release, April 3, 2008
• On World TB Day: Link­ing Debt and Tuber­cu­losis, –Jubilee USA, March 24, 2008
• Haiti Debt Can­cel­la­tion: Inter­view with Atieno Udour and Brian Con­can­non, –Pro­gres­sive Voices (WVUD, Delaware), Feb­ru­ary 25, 2008
• Haiti’s Debt, –Monthly Review, Jan­u­ary 4, 2008
• To Help Haiti Recover, Can­cel Its Debt, –Miami Her­ald (OpEd), Decem­ber 14, 2007
• Delayed Debt Can­cel­la­tion Will Only Hurt Haiti, New CEPR Paper Finds, –Cen­ter for Eco­nomic and Pol­icy Research (press release), Decem­ber 12, 2007
• Wol­fowitz and the World Bank: The Ques­tion Not Asked, –The Guardian, May 21, 2007
• U.S. Social Jus­tice Groups Urge Con­gress to Can­cel Haiti’s Debt, –May 18, 2007
• Bahamas Human Rights Net­work Calls for Haiti Debt Relief, –April 4, 2007
• Haiti to use debt relief pay­ment for secu­rity, –Reuters, March 20, 2007
• U.S. Orga­ni­za­tions Call on Inter-American Devel­op­ment Bank to Can­cel Haiti’s Debt Imme­di­ately, -(Press Release) March 16, 2007
• Debt Relief Cleared for Latin Nations, –Inter-Press Ser­vice, March 16, 2007
• New Study Says Cred­i­tor Coun­tries Should Can­cel Odi­ous Debt, –IPS, Feb­ru­ary 12, 2007
• Pope Bene­dict Calls for Debt Relief With­out Harm­ful Con­di­tions, –Zenit.org, Jan­u­ary 8, 2007
• Rep. Max­ine Waters Urges IMF and World Bank to Can­cel Haiti’s Debts, –Press Release, Decem­ber 11, 2006
• Senior Mem­bers of House Finan­cial Ser­vices Com­mit­tee Urge IDB To Can­cel Debt, –Press Release, Decem­ber 11, 2006
• Mem­bers of U.S. Con­gress Urge IMF and World Bank to Com­plete Full and Imme­di­ate Debt Can­cel­la­tion for Haiti, –Decem­ber 8, 2006
• IDB Debt Can­cel­la­tion for Haiti, –For­eign Pol­icy in Focus, Decem­ber 8, 2006
• 2007: The Year Haiti’s Debt is Can­celled, –Inter­con­nect, Decem­ber 2006
• Jubilee USA Wel­comes IDB Deci­sion to Can­cel Debts of Five Latin Amer­i­can Coun­tries, –press release, Novem­ber 20, 2006
• Inter-American Devel­op­ment Bank has agreed to a mas­sive debt relief for poor nations, –Miami Her­ald, Novem­ber 18, 2006
• HAITI NEEDS DEBT CONSOLIDATION NOW, –Mark Schuiller and Debayani Kar, July 26, 2006
• What the World Bank and IDB Owe Haiti, Dan Bee­ton, –Cen­ter for Eco­nomic Pol­icy Research, July 24, 2006

Debt Can­cel­la­tion Links

• Jubilee USA Network
• Cen­ter for Eco­nomic and Pol­icy Research
• Haiti Reborn Project, Quixote Center
• Debt Relief Now