What does the G8 recent debt cancellation to poor nations represent for women in those selected countries?
September 2005 An interview with Zo Randriamaro, a human rights and gender activist from Madagascar. A sociologist by trade, Zo has served as an expert within several international development organizations, the United Nations and USAID. She was the former Manager of the Gender and Economic Reforms in Africa (GERA) regional programme, and has recently joined the WEDO Board (Womens Environment and Development Organization). AWID: Why are so many groups (human rights, womens rights and civil society organizations) campaigning right now for debt cancellation? ZR: I think that this is a result of a combination of factors tied to a changing economic and political context as well as various approaches to the debt problem within international institutions. It is clear that one of the reasons why the debt issue has moved to the forefront in the international arena is because of the increasing pressure civil society organizations have created through numerous campaigns such as jubilee 2000 for
