Microsoft's MSN Internet services around the world is promoting the campaign to cancel the unpayable part of the Third World Debt. Unpayable debt means that impoverished countries can't afford health care and education for their citizens, protect the environment, or prepare for natural disasters, like Hurricane Mitch. Unpayable debt costs the lives of seven million children a year, according to the United Nations. The global Jubilee 2000 movement, with national campaigns organized in over 60 countries, has used a global petition to press world leaders to cancel the unpayable debts of impoverished nations.
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Signatures on the petition collected to date will be presented to the leaders of the G8 Summit in Cologne, Germany on 19 June. Eight million signatures from around the world have already been collected. Other celebrities supporting the campaign to drastically reduce third world debt include world champion boxer Muhammad Ali, the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Lenny Henry, David Bowie, Ewan McGregor, Noel Gallagher, Bob Geldof, The Prodigy, Catatonia, and Jarvis Cocker. The cyber-signatures will nicely complement the thumb prints on petition forms returned from New Zealand and elsewhere. He will present his plan at the G8 Summit in Cologne, Germany.