The Public Debt Crisis: Another Face of Human Rights Violations

Writer: Ziad Abdel Samad

Public debt is not merely a financial issue—it is a human one. In this article, Ziad Abdel Samad unpacks how decades of rentier policies, unfair taxation, corruption, and global financial imbalances have turned debt into a mechanism that undermines social justice and erodes people’s rights across the MENA region. As debt service consumes public budgets and austerity deepens inequality, he calls for fair tax reform, transparency, and investment in people—not creditors. The crisis of debt, Abdel Samad argues, is ultimately a crisis of governance, justice, and human dignity.

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