Havana, Cuba, September 28, 2005  (Pour lire le document en français CLIQUER ICI )

 
1.With the presence of representatives from 39 countries, Jubilee South held its II South-South Summit and tricontinental Assembly in Havana, Cuba, from September 25 to 28, 2005.

"RESISTENCE AND ALTERNATIVES TO DEBT DOMINATION"

HAVANA, CUBA, SEPTEMBER 30, 2005

1. Five years after the first international South-North consultation on debt was held in Dakar, Senegal, representatives from 51 countries convened the second, ‘Resistance and Alternatives to Debt Domination’, from 28 to 30 September 2005 in Havana, Cuba. We marked the 20th anniversary of the historic Havana meetings that focused the world's attention on the true nature of the debt crisis and strengthened the resistance to the payment of enslaving debt.

2. We, Southern and Northern people's movements and organizations, agree to work together to promote international recognition of the peoples and countries of the South as social, ecological, cultural and financial creditors of the North. We demand that Northern governments recognize these debts, caused by policies of plunder in violation of human rights, including the right to sovereignty and self-determination

Southern African Jubilee Debt Summit  - Johannesburg, 21st March 1999

On the eve of the new millennium, we are witnessing the rapid growth of Jubilee 2000 structures and debt coalitions across the region to tackle the existing problems we face and to move to a new millennium of hope and change. 

The vast majority of the people of sub-Saharan Africa live in pervasive poverty. In Southern Africa tens of millions of people are hungry, homeless, jobless, formally uneducated and die from preventable diseases. 

Yet Southern Africa is not intrinsically poor. Indeed, it is a region rich in natural and human resources. Debt slavery, the same system of debt bondage that excludes four fifths of the world's population from economic and social development, is a central part of this nightmare.