AFRODAD, a pan-African regional organization providing research-based lobby and advocacy in issues of Debt, Development Aid and Economic Governance is seeking to recruit a Team of competent people to fill the positions of Executive Director, Policy Advisor on Debt, Policy Advisor on Fair and Transparent Arbitration Mechanisms on Debt; Policy Advisor on Economic Governance and Development Aid. 

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FTA to End Scourge of Debt
By Stanley Kwenda

Opa Kampijimpanga: "Creditors also make mistakes."

Credit: Stanley Kwenda/IPS

HARARE, Apr 3 (IPS) - International debt campaigners are calling for the establishment of a debt arbitration mechanism to respond to the difficulties that many countries of the South are increasingly facing as they attempt to service debt arrears to international lenders.

International Conference on Fair and Transparent Arbitration Mechanism on Illegitimate and Odious Debts

Johannesburg, South Africa
March 30-31, 2009

This meeting will bring together inter-governmental representatives, parliamentarians, CSOs from around the world as well as legal experts.