Essential Action   >>Campaign Against the IMF, World Bank and Structural Adjustment


Demands of the Mobilization for Global Justice, August 2001

  1. Open all World Bank and IMF meetings to the media and the public.
  2. Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using the institutions' own resources.
  3. End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people's access to food, clean water, shelter, health care, education, and right to organize. (Such "structural adjustment" policies include user fees, privatization, and economic austerity programs.)
  4. Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destructive projects such as oil, gas, and mining activities, and all support for projects such as dams that include forced relocation of people.


Helpful links for each demand

  1. Open all World Bank and IMF meetings to the media and the public.
  2. Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using the institutions' own resources.
  3. End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people's access to food, clean water, shelter, health care, education, and right to organize. (Such "structural adjustment" policies include user fees, privatization, and economic austerity programs.)
  4. Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destructive projects such as oil, gas, and mining activities, and all support for projects such as dams that include forced relocation of people