Who supports a new SDR issuance?
Organizations across the United States, representing hundreds of thousands of people, including the AFL-CIO, United Steelworkers, Oxfam America, Partners In Health, Center for American Progress, Public Citizen, Friends of the Earth US, Communications Workers of America, Avaaz, UNITE HERE, American Friends Service Committee, The United Methodist Church — General Board of Church and Society, Sojourners, Presbyterian Church (USA), and many more.
Organizations around the world, including the International Chamber of Commerce, International Trade Union Confederation, Oxfam International, International Crisis Group, Global Call to Action Against Poverty, Christian Aid, Bretton Woods Project, Debt Justice UK, Eurodad, Latindadd, AFRODAD, Caribbean Policy Development Centre, Institute of Analysis and Advocacy Ukraine, and more.
Dozens of Members of Congress, both current and former, including Reps. Chuy Garcia, Joyce Beatty, and Barbara Lee, Senators Baldwin, Blumenthal, Booker, Sanders, and Warren, former Republican Senator Sam Brownback, and many more.
Business, represented by the International Chamber of Commerce
Labor, including the AFL-CIO, International Trade Union Confederation, United Steelworkers, and more
Leading economists, including Nobel Laureate and former World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
The United Nations Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy, and Finance
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Countries around the world, including the 135 developing countries represented by the G77 that urgently need a new SDR issuance, and many wealthy US allies. It is the United States, with its major influence at the IMF, that is standing in the way.
Members of Congress That Support A New SDR Issuance
More than 80 current members of Congress, as well as former members such as Republican senator Sam Brownback, have called for a new issuance of SDRs, including through multiple letters to President Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen:
Supporting members of Congress include:
Rep. Balint, Becca (VT)
Rep. Beatty, Joyce (OH), Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee, National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee
Rep. Blumenauer, Earl (OR)
Rep. Bowman, Jamaal (NY)
Rep. Brown, Shontel (OH)
Rep. Bush, Cori (MO)
Rep. Carson, André (IN)
Rep. Casar, Greg (TX)
Rep. Castro, Joaquin (TX)
Rep. Chu, Judy (CA)
Rep. Cicilline, David (RI)
Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel (MO)
Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. (VA)
Rep. Crow, Jason (CO)
Rep. Davis, Danny K. (IL)
Rep. Deluzio, Chris (PA)
Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark (CA)
Rep. Dingell, Debbie (MI)
Rep. Doggett, Lloyd (TX)
Rep. Espaillat, Adriano (NY)
Rep. Evans, Dwight (PA)
Rep. Garcia, Jesús "Chuy" (IL)
Rep. Garcia, Sylvia (TX)
Rep. Green, Al (TX)
Rep. Grijalva, Raúl (AZ)
Rep. Hayes, Jahana (CT)
Rep. Horsford, Steven (NV)
Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila (TX)
Rep. Jacobs, Sara (CA)
Rep. Jayapal, Pramila (WA)
Rep. Johnson, Henry "Hank" (GA)
Rep. Kamlager-Dove, Sydney (CA)
Rep. Kaptur, Marcy (OH)
Rep. Khanna, Ro (CA)
Rep. Krishnamoorthi, Raja (IL)
Rep. Larsen, Rick (WA)
Rep. Lee, Barbara (CA)
Rep. Lee, Summer (PA)
Rep. Lieu, Ted (CA)
Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. (MA)
Rep. McCollum, Betty (MN)
Rep. McGovern, James (MA)
Rep. Meng, Grace (NY)
Rep. Mullin, Kevin (CA)
Rep. Nadler, Jerrold (NY)
Rep. Norcross, Donald (NJ)
Rep. Norton, Eleanor Holmes (DC)
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria (NY)
Rep. Omar, Ilhan (MN)
Rep. Phillips, Dean (MN)
Rep. Pocan, Mark (WI)
Rep. Porter, Katie (CA)
Rep. Pressley, Ayanna (MA)
Rep. Raskin, Jamie (MD)
Rep. Ruiz, Raul (CA)
Rep. Sánchez, Linda (CA)
Rep. Scanlon, Mary Gay (PA)
Rep. Schakowsky, Janice "Jan" (IL)
Rep. Thanedar, Shri (MI)
Rep. Titus, Dina (NV)
Rep. Tlaib, Rashida (MI)
Rep. Torres, Ritchie (NY)
Rep. Trone, David (MD)
Rep. Vargas, Juan (CA)
Rep. Velázquez, Nydia (NY)
Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie (NJ)
Rep. Wild, Susan (PA)
Rep. Williams, Nikema (GA)
Rep. Wilson, Frederica (FL)
Sen. Baldwin, Tammy (WI)
Sen. Blumenthal, Richard (CT)
Sen. Booker, Cory A. (NJ)
Sen. Brown, Sherrod (OH)
Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. (MD)
Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. (PA)
Sen. Markey, Edward J. (MA)
Sen. Merkley, Jeff (OR)
Sen. Padilla, Alex (CA)
Sen. Sanders, Bernard (VT)
Sen. Van Hollen, Chris (MD)
Sen. Warren, Elizabeth (MA)
Sen. Wyden, Ron (OR)
Many more members also showed their support for SDRs when the House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to pass legislation calling for a 2-3 trillion SDR issuance in 2020 and 2021. While this was prior to the 2021 issuance, the legislation called for multiple times as many SDRs as were ultimately allocated.
Organizations That Support A New SDR Issuance
Hundreds of civil society organizations representing millions of people — in the US, Africa, and around the world — have called for a new issuance of SDRs:
They include (certain organizations underlined for emphasis):
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350.org
AbibiNsroma Foundation
ACEP
Action Corps
ActionAid USA
ActionAid International
Adrian Dominican Sisters
Advocacy Network for Africa
AFL-CIO
Africa Development Interchange Network (ADIN)
Africa Faith and Justice Network
Africa Japan Forum
African Women and Youth Initiative
Africans Rising
Al Hayat Center - RASED
Alianza Por la Igualdad de América Latina y el Caribe, Alianza Regional América Latina
Alliance of Baptists
Alternative Law Collective Pakistan
Amazónico Centro de Documentación en Derechos Humanos "Segundo Montes Mozo S.J." (CSMM)
America Red Mexicana de Acción frente al Libre Comercio (RMALC)
American Friends Service Committee
Amid Vision Organisation
Apostolic Ministerial International Network
Arab Watch Coalition
Asociación Generaciones de Paz (ASDEPAZ) El Salvador
Association For Promotion Sustainable Development
Association Jeunes Pour Jeunes (AJJ)
Association La Siesta Pour La Protection De L'Environnement
Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (USA)
Association Tunisienne de Droit du Développement
ATED
ATGL
Avaaz
Baltimore Nonviolence Center
Bangladesh Institute of Human Rights (BIHR)
Bank Climate Advocates
BARAC UK
Benedictines for Peace
BNSK Bangladesh
Bread for the World
Bretton Woods Project
Brooklyn For Peace
Budget Advocacy Network, Sierra Leone
Bulsho Trust
C2ES
CAFOD
Caribbean Policy Development Centre
CCFD-Terre Solidaire
Center for American Progress
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
Center for Economic and Social Rights
Center for Financial Accountability
Centre for Citizens Conserving Environment & Management (CECIC), Uganda
Centre for Environment, Human Rights & Development Forum – CRHRDF, Bangladesh
Centre for Human Rights and Development
Centre for Muslim Youth In Peace And Development
Centro de Derechos Económicos y Sociales — CDES
Centro de Documentación en Derechos Humanos “Segundo Montes Mozo S.J.” (CSMM), Ecuador
Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS)
Centro de Investigacion Sobre Inversión y Comercio (CEICOM)
Chicago Area Peace Action
Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America-CRLN
Children and Women Organization
Christian Aid
Civil Society SDGs Campaign GCAP, Zambia
Climate Action Network International
Climate Action Network Latin America
Climate Advisers
Climate and Community Project
Coalición de Tendencia Clasista (CTC-VZLA)
CO Dem Party - Energy and Environment Initiative
Communication Workers of America
Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, U.S. Provinces
Consejo de Jóvenes de Oaxaca
Consejo Nacional de Planeación – Sector Afrodescendiente, Colombia
Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca (CRIC), Colombia
Contribution à l'Education de Base
Croatian Platform for International Citizen Solidarity (CROSOL)
Debt Justice UK
debtWatch Indonesia
Demand Progress Education Fund
Development Alliance NGO
Development Finance International
Disability Peoples Forum, Uganda
Diverse Voices and Action (DIVA) for Equality
Dominican Sisters of Hope
E3G
Earth Action Inc.
East and North Africa Association For Promotion Sustainable Development
Ecology Africa Foundation
EDER (Environnement et Énergies Renouvelables)
Ekumenická akademie
Elders Climate Action
Empower Our Future
Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía y Familia
Erlassjahr.de
Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association
European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad)
Fast for the Climate
Fentat Sunat, Peru
Financial Justice Ireland
Focus of Disabled Persons
Fomento de la Vida
Foreign Policy for America
Foro Social de Deuda Externa y Desarrollo de Honduras
Forum Solidaridad Perú
FOSDEH
Fossil Free South Africa
Foundation for Integrative AIDS Research (FIAR)
Franciscan Action Network
Freedom Forward
Freedom Road, LLC
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Friends in Solidarity
Friends of the Disabled Association
Friends of the Earth US
Friends with Environment in Development
Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN), Argentina
Fundación para el Desarrollo de Centroamérica (FUDECEN), El Salvador
Fundación SES
Gatef Organization Egypt
GCAP Africa
Gender Action
Gender-Based Violence as a Public Health Issue
Generation Against Marginalisation
Gestos / CSO WG for the 2030 Agend
Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP)
Global Citizen
Global Consultrant SC
Global Health Partners
Global Humanitarian Progress Corp
Global Justice Now
Global Policy Forum Europe
Good Health Community Programmes Kenya
Green Advocates International (Liberia)
Green Armenia
Green Economy Coalition
Grupo Nacional De Presupuesto Publico
Health Advocacy International
Heinrich Boell Foundation
Helping Hand for Survivors Inc.
Himalayan Peace Foundation
Hindus for Human Rights
Hyattstown Christian Church
Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER), Uganda
Institut Panos, Haïti
Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Loreto Generalate
Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
Institute of Analysis and Advocacy
Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Loreto Generalate
Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Loreto Generalate
Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Fiscales (Icefi)
Instituto para el Desarrollo y la Paz Amazónica
Instituto Popular de Capacitación (IPC)
Integrity of Creation
Interaction
International Chamber of Commerce
International Crisis Group
International Federation of Social Workers
International Trade Union Confederation
International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific)
Islamic Relief USA
Jamaa Resource Initiatives
Jobs With Justice
Jubilee USA Network
Jubilee Scotland
JUBILEO 2000 Ecuador
Just Foreign Policy (JFP)
Justice et Paix France
Justice Is Global
JusticeMakers Bangladesh
Kamukunji Paralegal Trust (KAPLET)
Kingdom debtWATCH Indonesia
Kingdom Global Policy Forum
La Raíz – Pensamiento Crítico
Latin America Working Group (LAWG)
Latinoamérica Sustentable
Leadership Team of the Sisters of the Precious Blood, Dayton, Ohio
League of Conservation Voters
MADRE
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
Medical Mission Sisters
MenaFem Movement for Economic, Development and Ecological Justice
Mennonite Central Committee U.S.
Missionary Oblates
National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd
National Campaign for Sustainable Development Nepal
National Society of Conservationists - Friends of the Earth Hungary
Red de Justicia Fiscal de América Latina y El Caribe
Natural Resources Defense Council
Netherlands Wedyan Association For Society Development
Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice
NGO ASRAD-Mali
The NGO Caribbean Development Foundation
NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace, and Security
NGO Forum on ADB
Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investment
Organisation Constellée pour le Développement Économique et Social de la Commune des Gonaives (OCDESCG)
Oxfam America
Oxfam International
Oyu Tolgoi Watch
PacificwinPacific
Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum
Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee
Partners In Health
Passionist Solidarity Network
Pax Christi USA
Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light
Peoples Federation for National Peace and Development (PEFENAP)
Phenix Center for Economic and Informatics Studies
PHM Kenya
Plataforma Boliviana Frente al Cambio Climático
Plateforme Française Dette et Développement
Polylat – Sovereign Debt Project
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Priority Africa Network (PAN)
Projekta Suriname
Public Citizen
R2H Action [Right to Health]
Reacción Climática
Recourse
Red Latinoamericana por Justicia Económica y Social (LATINDADD)
Red Nacional de Promoción de la Mujer
RENICC
Rivers without Boundaries Coalition
RootsAction.org
Rural Area Development Programme (RADP)
Sanayee Development Organization SDO
School Sisters of Notre Dame CP JPIC Office
Scotland International Development Alliance
Sierra Club
Sisters of Charity Federation
Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Office of Justice
Sisters of Charity of Nazareth Congregational Leadership
Sisters of Charity of Nazareth Western Province Leadership
Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Justice Team
Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chestnut Hill Philadelphia
Sisters of St. Francis
Sisters of St. Francis, Clinton, Iowa
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, LA
Sisters of St. Joseph-TOSF Social Justice Committee
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus Mary
The Society for Children Orphaned By AIDS Inc. (SOCOBA)
SODECA-Kenya
Sojourners
South Feminist Futures
STAND
Stop TB USA
Studies and Economic Media Center
Suramericana Visión
Sukaar Welfare Organization
Tanzania AIDS Forum
Tanzania Network of Women Living with HIV and AIDS
The Society for Children Orphaned By AIDS Inc. (SOCOBA)
The United Methodist Church — General Board of Church and Society
Third World Network
Union of Concerned Scientists
Unitarian Universalist Association
UNITE HERE
United Church of Christ, Justice and Local Ministries
United Steelworkers (USW)
UP Center
WECF International
WEDO
Wemos
Win Without War
Women Empowerment Against Poverty of Nepal (WEAPoN)
Women Engage for a Common Future – WECF
Women's Budget Group
World Economy, Ecology and Development (WEED)
Yas Iraq
Yemeni Observatory for Human Rights