On 26 and 27 May 2020, the Socfin and Bolloré groups hold their annual general meetings. Socfin, which is 39,7% owned by Bolloré, controls 400,000 ha of oil palm and rubber tree concessions in ten African and Asian countries with the participation of Bolloré. While in...
More than 100 Civil society organisations demand a stop to trade talks that will further endanger EU rules on health and the environment and aggravate the climate crisis. A change of course is needed. We have followed the recent talks between the European Commission...
AEFJN takes part in the alliance of over 150 European organisations, trade unions and social movements, campaigning in favour of corporate accountability rules for companies, and against Investor to State Dispute Settlement, a parallel, one sided and unfair justice...
The advocacy work of AEFJN and other Civil Society Organizations (CSO) to stop the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Union and African regions has been intense during the last decades. In the last 20 years, the European Union (EU) has tried...
The economic system imposed by globalization has progressively ignored the real concerns and needs of citizens. In the European Union, the governments of member states have been adopting labour rights cuts, the privatisation of health care system, salary cuts and...
The fifth session of the open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (October 2019) established four months for the concerned states to submit suggestions on the revised draft...
In December 2019, the European Union agreed on the objective of achieving a climate-neutral EU by 2050.[1] The fight against climate change along with the aim to limit global warming to well below 2°C in this century are at the heart of the EU's energy policies.[2]...
On Wednesday 29 April 2020, RTBF revealed the hidden face of the palm oil group SOCFIN, while this company benefits from the so-called "socially responsible" bank financing. This is not however the first time that this company has been singled out. This new...
The whole world is going through an unprecedented economic damage due to the new coronavirus pandemic. It is predicted to have devastating effects on the global economy that will certainly be more intense than and distinct from those felt during the 2008-2009 global...
In August 2001, the inhabitants of the villages of Kitemba, Luwunga, Kijunga and Kiryamakobe (approximately 4,000 peasants) in Mubende district (Uganda) were violently expelled from their ancestral land of 2,524 hectares they have been living on for years. The...
Introduction Dystocia (i.e., births problem) continue to cause significant maternal mortality in low-income countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Oxytocin has long been successfully used for the treatment of some dystocia and for the treatment of post-partum...
The model list of essential medicines was created by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1977 to offer governments a reference resource to help in the choice of medicines and the establishment of national essential medicine lists. Essential medicines are those that...
Trade agreements have potentially very damaging impacts on health. They multiply precarious jobs, weaken working conditions and open up the health sector more widely to the market. Here is the analysis of the working group of Be-cause Health and the Health and...
Studying - Reading – Sharing God’s Word Texts of Scripture can have various levels of meaning. There is not the one universal interpretation. How individuals and communities interpret a biblical text depends greatly on their life situation and their cultural...
The bible and social and ecological justice Justice is a key word in the Bible. All books speak of God’s justice and mercy. God is just, a just judge and God is on the side of the poor who are treated unjustly. God demands the same from his people and from his...
Word and Life Throughout the whole Bible runs the demand not only to hear the Word of God but to live it and to make it a guide for our daily decisions. Our faith, which is based on the Word of Scripture, wants to be lived. Faith without the works is...
On 26 and 27 May 2020, the Socfin and Bolloré groups hold their annual general meetings. Socfin, which is 39,7% owned by Bolloré, controls 400,000 ha of oil palm and rubber tree concessions in ten African and Asian countries with the participation of Bolloré. While in...
On this Africa Liberation Day May 25, 2020, we, as people of faith and conscience, stand together during this COVID-19 crisis to lift up the ideals of Africa’s liberation. Let us recognize and confidently assert the power and dynamism of Africa’s people. The origins...
The world has lived through several wars and natural disasters in our generation, but it has never been shut down by any of them. It is therefore worrisome to see the world completey and practically shut down because of the ravaging coronavirus. The economies of the...
