The worst debt crisis in thirty years, combined with decades of severe austerity measures, has created fertile ground for the repression of dissent in countries around the world.
We heard passionate and moving accounts of the impact of the debt crisis in Pakistan, Egypt and Morocco - and how activists are being met with increasingly authoritarian tactics.
Long-time campaigner Shereen Talaat, based in Morocco, explained how:
“Governments may look democratic in terms that they have processes of voting, elections etc, but unfortunately their policies are written elsewhere, behind closed doors, in discussions with the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Debt has now redefined our sovereignty in our region. It decides who eats, who works and who rules.”
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