WDM launch press fundraising appeal over freezing debt repayments
Howard Lake | 5 January 2005 | News
The World Development Movement has launched a press fundraising campaign in response to Gordon Brown’s statement yesterday on the freezing of debt repayments.
Debt campaigners the Jubilee Debt Campaign and the World Development Movement described the plan by world leaders, including Gordon Brown, to introduce a moratorium on debt repayments by tsunami-affected countries as “welcome but inadequate” saying that they need debt cancellation not just temporary relief from debt repayments.
Speaking about the newspaper appeal which appeared in The Independent, Head of Fundraising and Supporter Relations at World Development Movement, Jonathan Dearth, said: “This is a new territory for us, but we intend to recruit new supporters to campaign against the government’s lack of action on dealing with poor country debt.”
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