The UK's Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Act 2010 aims to ensure that UK courts neither give nor enforce a judgment allowing recovery against Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (‘HIPC') on covered debts exceeding the amount calculated as sustainable under the HIPC Initiative.Some have objected...

The aim of this article is to illustrate how the large repayments of external debts undermine a debtor country's ability to comply with its obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and to argue that adequate debt relief to the poorest debtor countries...