Partners In World Development
Welcome to the website for the World Development Network of the Church of England.
On this site you will find links to many kinds of world development work being done around the Church of England’s dioceses, including:
- tackling the root causes of global poverty
- seeking to make trade fair and to bring about trade justice
- highlighting the connection between climate change and poverty
- combating the scourges of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and similar diseases
The strength of the Church of England’s efforts in these fields lies in the commitment of thousands of people in parishes throughout the country, as well as in the support the Church receives from partner organisations – this website is a portal to several of these.
Visit this website for new ideas for world development work in your local area, and if you would like to make your own contribution to this new online network, follow the ‘contact us’ link above
Campaigners have fought against the unfair debts that crippled some of the world’s poorest countries. We rightly celebrated when debt relief helped lift some of this burden.
Now that progress is under threat.
Vulture funds make money by buying up old debt against developing countries, and using the courts to sue them for it in order to reap massive profits. That’s just wrong.
The problem is, that while the vulture funds law brought in the UK last year finally stopped this activity happening here, this doesn’t currently extend to Jersey.
Sign up now to ask the Chief Minister of Jersey to extend the UK law to their courts too.
Right now, vulture fund FG Hemisphere is using Jersey’s courts to claim $100m from the Democratic Republic of Congo, on a debt thought to have been bought for $3.3m.
After having much of their debt cancelled by the IMF and World Bank just last year, the impact that this will have on the DRC, and people living in extreme poverty, is just unimaginable. This shouldn’t be happening – let alone so close to home.
Join ONE and the Jubilee Debt Campaign UK in asking Jersey’s Chief Minister to take a stand, by extending the law that already exists here in the UK. It’s simply not right to turn a blind eye.
