Political Actions for Climate Justice

Debt cancellation

The movement Debt for Climate is organizing world wide campaigns for debt cancellation.

A MOVEMENT OF MOVEMENTS

They are a global grassroots movement initiated and led by the Global South, building power from the bottom-up by uniting workers, Indigenous, feminist, faith, environmental, social and climate justice movements in the Global North and South, to cancel the financial debt of the Global South in order to enable a self-determined, just transition.

Debt is the most powerful common denominator behind which all of these struggles can unite and fight for global social, ecological and climate justice.

The situation in Kenya

In February 2024 Kenya received huge loans (1.5 billion US$) from the IMF and World Bank with the sole purpose of being able to pay the interest for older loans. These loans have a high interest rate of 10.5 %. As a result, in 2024 about 26% of the tax income will be used just to pay the interest on mainly Western loans, which is 379% of the spending on healthcare. As a result, the people in Kenya struggle to survive, there have been huge cuts in the fields of education and health, and many people are dying, only to keep the profit of the creditors up and running.

This must be stopped. More information: Debt and Kenya's Economic Crisis ​

Human rights

Kenyans outside the Hague on June 27, 2024, in front of the International Criminal Court (ICC) demanding that they reopen Ruto's case.

Meetings

We are planning a public online meeting with participants from Kenya and NL at the end of August 2024. Stay tuned!