About Global Action for Debt Cancellation

This website started out as the space for the 2020 Global Week of Action for Debt Cancellation. The multiple crises of the COVID19 pandemic, the intensified economic recession, and the climate emergency spotlighted the urgency for raising the calls for debt cancellation and addressing unsustainable and illegitimate debt. It was in this context that many movements, organizations and citizens groups came together for a “Global Week of Action for Debt Cancellation” on October 10 to 17, 2020.

These crises continue unabated, leading to heavier debt burdens, worsening poverty and an ever-intensifying climate crisis. This site – Global Action for Debt Cancellation -- now serves as a dedicated space for organizations and networks supporting the Open Letter to All Governments, International Institutions and Lenders to address these issues.

We hope to generate ever greater reach and impact and pave the way for a re-invigorated, sustained global debt movement to rise to even bigger challenges today and the years ahead.