Read our Common Statement for the October 13-18, 2025, Global Week of Action
Billions of people across all global regions are increasingly caught in the tightening grip of polycrisis, ever-growing in breadth and scale. The Global South is heavily weighed down by unprecedented public debt accumulation and servicing unsustainable and illegitimate debts. At the same time, Global South peoples are struggling to survive in a context of deepening economic devastation, inequality, impoverishment and deprivation.
This October, as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank hold business-as-usual Annual Meetings, including meetings of Ministers of Finance, let us seize the opportunity to advance our calls and demands in even stronger terms, for debt, climate, gender and economic justice. These institutions and the richest countries that control and profit from them, continue to leave a trail of debt and destruction and block the path towards making the transformative changes we urgently need for a just, equitable and sustainable world.
In the face of unabated and increasing pillaging and plunder of the Global South, and the major roles played by the IMF and the World Bank in sustaining and maintaining grossly unjust and unequal systems and relations, our voices and actions must ring out stronger than ever for debt, economic and climate justice.
1. Cancel illegitimate and unsustainable debts!
Over 3.4 billion people today live in countries spending more on debt service than on education or health and whose economies are deformed by perpetual debt bondage. Part of these debts being claimed from the South are illegitimate –lacking in transparency and public consultations, violating human rights and exacerbating poverty and the climate crisis – and must be unconditionally and immediately cancelled.
We call for a UN Debt Convention to democratize debt governance, away from IMF-WB and other lender-dominated spaces.
2. Grants not loans, for Climate Finance! Stop fossil fuel lending!
The Global South, which least contributed to the climate crisis, bear the brunt of the harshest impacts of climate change. It is a gross injustice that International Financial Institutions persist in peddling more loans to the South to address climate vulnerabilities, for a crisis we did not cause. Global North governments should not channel the delivery of their Climate Finance obligations thru IFIs who in turn provide loans for climate programs.
3. End austerity, stop privatization of vital public services and reject false financial solutions!
Resist the IMF-World Bank’s vigorous promotion of G7/G20 debt “solutions” which have failed to bring even minimal relief to borrowing countries. They also continue to prescribe anti-people measures – regressive taxes, budget cuts in essential social spending, privatization of health, water and sanitation, wage freezes, labor contractualization, etc. Debunk their claims!
4. Reparations and Just Transition Now!
We demand reparations for the neo-colonial plunder of the resources and wealth of the South that continues to this day, and for the economic maldevelopment arising from imposing neo-liberal, profit-driven policies and conditionalities. We further demand reparations from IFIs and rich Global North countries for the climate crisis that is hitting the Global South with increasing intensity. Enormous wealth has been accumulated at the expense of our people and planet. It is past time for a massive transfer of wealth and resources to pay reparations for historical injustice.
The need for transforming the current international economic and financial system and embarking on a process of Just Transition has never been more urgent as it is now. A Just Transition Agenda must be built from the ground up, ensuring that peoples’ rights and welfare are not violated in the process and that costs and benefits are equitably shared. Reject the attempts of IFIs to appropriate and cash in on this process through their lending as well as their promotion of private sector investments!
✊🏽 We urge you to organize or join marches and actions in front of national offices of the IMF and the World Bank, embassies and consulates of Global North governments, and government offices.
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In the days leading up to the Global Week of Action, we’ll be making steady noise online and storming social media platforms — a digital strong drumbeat to demand justice and inspire more people to take action.
This is our chance to shift the narrative, raise our collective demands, and show that a powerful global movement is rising. Each day, we’ll focus on a specific theme to highlight our calls.
Join the Twitter/X Actions on October 13 and October 16
• Watch out for the public release of the Sign-On Statement on October 13. Circulate and gather more endorsements.
• Together, let’s make noise on Twitter/X and other platforms on Oct. 13 and 16 at 10 AM, Washington DC. See the Social Media and Messaging Guide for suggestions.
Make more noise on October 16, the Day of Globally Coordinated Actions, when we come together from wherever we are in the world to raise our debt, climate and economic justice issues, and deliver a coherent and more impactful messaging of our common calls and demands.
For greater visual recall, flash the hand stop sign (see illustration) with the hashtag #StopTheHarm in your selfies, groufies, rallies and other public actions! You may use your own hand or replicate this with other materials (e.g., paper, cardboard etc.) that allow for a bigger hand and for more calls to be reflected.
Use our logo, fliers and common hashtags!
To amplify our collective voice and unify our messages across platforms, don’t forget to include the October GWoA Logo (feel free to use any of the 6 colors) alongside your group’s logo to show our global unity!
Find the Global Week of Action logos and fliers here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16s2SoZm3eWyEOEmf_g7wS-Bjxy_BoCQg?usp=drive_link
Also, please use the following unifying hashtags to help us connect across themes, strengthen our reach, and build momentum.
# StopTheHarm #CancelTheDebt #UNDebtConvention #FundTheFuture #DefendHumanRights #EndInequalities #JustTransition #JustTransitionRising
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The Global Week of Action
taking place from October 13-18 is part of four global mobilization moments in 2025.
Please use the Common Overarching Narrative Paper for all four mobilizations as a reference for developing your campaign materials.
In addition to the logo of the June mobilization, please also use the Common Logo of all the 2025 Mobilization Moments for all your Materials.
