Cancel Haiti’s Debt!!
July 25th Call-In Day for Haiti:Urge Your Representative to Cancel Haiti’s Debt!
Tomorrow July 25th we urge you to call your members of Congress to support the House resolution that would immediately cancel Haiti’s debt. July 25 is our national call-in day to have supporters contact their Members around the country urging them to co-sponsor H.Res. 888. The 25th is the date of an international donors conference in Haiti to support the newly elected government of Rene Preval.
The Haiti debt cancellation resolution (H.Res. 888) urges the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and other international financial institutions to completely cancel Haiti’s debt without delays!
Haiti is the most impoverished country in the Western hemisphere. Haiti’s massive debt burden of $1.4 billion is both unpayable and unjust. Much of Haiti’s debt was contracted under 30 years of Duvalier regimes, notorious for human rights abuses. Though the country was added in April to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank’s debt relief program, under the program’s harmful economic policy conditions, Haiti will not see irrevocable debt cancellation for three or more years. Haiti cannot wait years or suffer through more such policies to see its debt cancelled.
Contact Your Representative on July 25th!
Click here for more information and a phone script to use when calling your elected officials.
