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Britain's UK Export Finance Department is fuelling climate change, human rights abuses and third world debt. It's time for change. Read more

Egypt pays $650m ‘dictator debt’ to West

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Marion 0 comments

 

Campaign groups in London and Paris protested the ongoing repayments Egypt is making to the UK and France on the basis of ‘dictator debts’ run up under the regime of Hosni Mubarak.

On 29 June, Egypt payed around $650 million to the Paris Club of Western creditors, just part of this year’s expected $3 billion repayments on interest and debt stock

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UK Export Finance Annual Report shows support for new ‘dodgy deals’

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Maddy 0 comments

Part of Vince Cable’s Department for Business, UK Export Finance (formerly ECGD), has backed £33 million of loans, including to Azerbaijan, China, Nigeria and Russia without carrying out any assessment of their social and environmental impact. The loans are for equipment for coal mines, a nuclear power station, a methanol plant and natural gas delivery systems. [...]

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Clean up Britain’s exports Summer Update

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Marion 0 comments

Find out more about the latest developments in our campaign to Clean Up Britain’s exports. Here You can also send this briefing to your MP to keep them up to date !

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Dictator Debt Die-in at Dodgy Deals Department

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Maddy 0 comments

  Jubilee Debt Campaign and London Campaign Against Arms Trade staged a die in at Vince Cable’s business department to highlight its role in promoting and financing arms sales. It was another chance to keep up the pressure on Vince Cable to cancel the dictator debts that have resulted from the department backing arms sales [...]

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Argentina still ‘owes’ UK for Falklands arms

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Marion 0 comments

We have uncovered documents showing that Argentina still ‘owes’ the UK £45m for arms sales to the military junta in the years leading up to the Falklands War. The UK knew Argentina might invade the Falklands, and the regime had a ‘worse’ human rights record than Pinochet’s Chile, but it backed the dodgy deals anyway [...]

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