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Mr Anderson Chibwa, High Commissioner of Zambia - Sept '03
Ken Morrison, Jubilee Cyclist - Personal Reflections of a debt campaigner June 2003
Mr Kwabena Baah-Duodu, Deputy High Commissioner of Ghana - Nov'02
Uganda Story - Oct'02
Canada G8: The Rocky Road to Justice - June'02
Canada G8: Open Letter to Gordon Brown - June'02
Jubilee Relay Article Series - Spring'02
Interview with Bishop Bernardino Mandlate of Mozambique - April'02
Brown leads on aid, but what about debt? - December'01
Debt Campaigning in a Changed World - November'02
An open letter to Gordon Brown - November'02
Genoa G7 Summit - the other casualties - August'01

High Commissioner of Zambia
The High Commissioner of Zambia, Mr Anderson Chibwa on the effect of debt on Zambia and his support for the debt campaign.

Ken Morrison Cycling Campaigner
A Jubilee Scotland cyclist who has cycled to the last 3 G8 summits and member of the Edinburgh local group shares his personal reflections on what it means to be a debt campaigner.

Deputy High Commissioner of Ghana
The Deputy High Commissionaire for Ghana, Mr Kwabena Baah - Duodu, on the consequences for Ghana and Africa of failure to resolve the debt crisis.

Uganda Story
Charlotte Mwesigye of Uganda Debt Network was Jubilee Scotland's guest in September. She speaks of the challenges her country faces.

Canada G8: The Rocky Road to Justice - June'02
A team of Scottish cyclists are pedalling 1000 miles across the Canadian Rocky Mountains to raise awareness of the plight of the world's poor. Edinburgh social worker Ken Morrison explains why he is with them.

Canda G8: Open Letter to Gordon Brown
As published in The Scotsman Monday 10 June, Jubilee Scotland's convenor John Harris has written an open letter to Gordon Brown prior to the Chancellor's departure for the G7 Finance Ministers Meeting 14 - 15 June.

Jubilee Relay Articles Series
Between March 11th and 6th June a baton containing a message from the Queen was carried across 23 Commonwealth countries in the run up to the Manchester ‘Golden Jubilee’ Commonwealth games. Jubilee Scotland commissioned writer Hester Ross to pen a series of articles profiling how debt affects poor countries which the baton passed through. Join Hester on her journey in the following articles:

Jubilee Relay Article #1 'A Race for Commonwealth'
Jubilee Relay Article #2 'Time to abandon the watchtowers' - Caribbean
Jubilee Relay Article #3 'What price clean water?' - Ghana
Jubilee Relay Article #4 The baton visits Nigeria
Jubilee Relay Article #5 'So much to learn' - Uganda and Tanzania
Jubilee Relay Article #6 'Still paying for apartheid' - South Africa
Jubilee Relay Article #7 'Down to earth down under' - Australia
Jubilee Relay Article #8 'Fragile dreams, delicate economies' - Fiji
Jubilee Relay Article #9 The baton visists Brunei
Jubilee Relay Article #10 'Will the G8 listen to Africa?' - back in the UK

Interview with Bishop Bernardino Mandlate of Mozambique
Bishop Mandlate of Mozambique visited Scotland in connection with Jubilee Scotland's Celebrity Arts Auction on 30 April. Prior to the event, he talked to Jubilee Scotland about his experience of the debt crisis.

Brown leads on aid, but what about debt?
Gordon Brown has called for a doubling of aid to developing countries. Click here for an analysis/response produced by Jubilee Debt Campaign

Debt Campaigning in a Changed World
John Harris, Convenor
The last edition our newsletter carried an urgent appeal for donations to enable Jubilee Scotland to stay in business. If we weren't actually threatened with closure, it did look as if we might have to close our office and pay off our loyal and hard-working staff of two. I am relieved to able to report that this has not happened, and I would pay tribute here to the willingness of Doug Anthoney and Kristin Waag to continue working and campaigning for us under such trying and uncertain circumstances. An immediate response from individual supporters and a number of churches has greatly eased our situation, and a generous grant from an anonymous Trust Fund has completely turned it around. On behalf of all of us involved in Jubilee Scotland, I would like to thank every one of you who gave in any way at all. Funding for future years has yet to be secured, but the future looks better and our immediate crisis is over.
Click here for John's analysis of the debt campaign post 11th September.

An open letter to Gordon Brown
In October 2001 Jubilee Scotland received a letter from Gordon Brown in response to our request that he would address debt campaigners in Scotland. In giving his apologies, the Chancellor provided a statement to be read out on his behalf. Jubilee Scotland have taken this opportunity to reply to Gordon Brown with an open letter setting out our stall on the debt issue. If you would also like to make a response to Mr. Brown, please feel free to borrow from the Jubilee Scotland text.

Genoa G7 Summit - the other casualties
Group of 7 Summit in Genoa, Italy between 21 and 23 July 2001 has proved yet another missed opportunity to resolve the global debt crisis. The Group of 7 consists of the world's riches countries; Great Britain, USA, France, Japan, Italy, Canada and Germany (the addition of Russia makes it the G8, although Russia is not included in financial discussions.)
The G7 Summit in Genoa will be remembered by many for scenes of violence, destruction and a death. For Jubilee Scotland, however, there were two other casualties at Genoa which received far less media attention. The first was our hope that G7 leaders would ac to cancel the debts of the world's poorest countries. This did not happen. The $1.5 billion Global Health Fund to combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases of poverty will be back in six weeks through debt service payments from the world's poorest countries. Adrian Lovett of Drop the Debt, the lead UK debt organisation at Genoa, expressed disappointment that "in private meetings, [G7 leaders] acknowledged that existing measures will not be enough to end the debt crisis, but failed to offer any concrete solution." While Genoa set a precedent by inviting key African leaders to present their case in person to the G7, there were no specific promises made in response.

The second casualty was the freedom to highlight our cause through peaceful demonstration. Since 70,000 debt campaigners descended on Birmingham for the 1998 G7 Summit mass actions have been crucial in putting debt cancellation on the agenda and achieving limited debt cancellation. It has become too easy, however, for people with violent intentions to latch onto mass protest actions and use them as a parasite uses a host. On the morning of Saturday 21 July Jubilee Scotland joined other peaceful UK campaigns groups in their decision not to participate in the march through Genoa, and many of our supporters took part in alternative vigils in Genoa Debt Zone, Turin and Milan. Organisations committed to achieving justice for the world's poor through peaceful means must now reassess the strategy of mass mobilisation around intergovernmental meetings. Ultimately, however, the decision may be irrelevant if G7 and other key groupings choose to hold future meetings in inaccessible locations.