What is Jubilee 2000?

Jubilee 2000 is an international coalition of churches and activist groups, which tried to exclude third world foreign debt until 2000. Based on the biblical concept, Jubilee 2000 had a certain success, but did not achieve its noble goal of 100% debt elimination. Several continuing organizations remain dedicated to the cause of the original movement and continues to work to reduce debts, relief and forgiveness around the world. The text suggests that every 50 year should be forgiven debts and slaves should be exempt from slavery. Whether the jubilee was actually practiced tradition is not known, but the concept was borrowed to coincide with the celebration of the Catholic Church of 2000, known as the great anniversary. During this time, the Catholic Church celebrated the forgiveness of sin through special celebrations, APT metaphor for the forgiveness of the Third World debt.

The Jubilee 2000 concept came with Professor Martin Dent, retired teacher who asked to pre -state global povertyiversity in Keele. Professor Dent tied the concept of the jubilee year on the initiative of reducing debts. Some of his students inspired an organization that would become Jubilee 2000.

During the G-8 Summit in Birmingham on 16 May 1998, between 50,000-70,000 activists for a movement that showed a meeting of the world's most powerful leaders. Despite the meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair, the group went with little progress and decided to try again the following year. Thanks to the common efforts of the 1999 summit, it included a notification of about $ 100 billion in the US (USD) for developing nations. Although it did not meet the requirements for the forgiveness of the total debt, many considered it a triumph and a mark of a promising future. Other changes in Jubilee 2000's efforts include agreements on relief and forgiveness in the United States and the UK.

After the turn of the millennium, Jubilee 2000 dissolved and reformed to several actionBlue -based blue -based national conditions. Some of the larger groups include the US Network and Jubilee South. These groups continue to lobby in the lobby of the leaders of nations for increased and improving debt forgiveness around the world.