Since
2001, after the millennium campaign Jubilee 2000, Jubilee Scotland
have been putting pressure on the UK government and the world's
richest countries to cancel 100% debt of the poorest countries
in the world.
The
Jubilee 2000 Scottish coalition succeeded in putting the issue of
debt onto the international agenda at a historic G8 Summit meeting
in 1998 and in pushing for reform of the World Bank and IMF HIPC
initiative in 1999. Jubilee Scotland have taken this work forward
and have been instrumental in forcing the UK government to adopt
a more radical approach to ending the debt crisis in poor countries.