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“No TTIP through the backdoor!”: Civil society organisations warn against risky concessions in EU-US trade talks
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...
Petition: Rights for People, Rules for Corporations
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 Failure of the EPAs in Africa: a Victory of the Civil Society
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...
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Business and Human Rights: key elements to understand the United Nations Treaty
The sixth meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) of United Nations (UN) for the negotiation of a legally binding treaty on transnational corporations (TNCs) and respect for human rights met in Geneva from 26 to 30 October 2020[1]. The negotiation itself...
EU CORPORATE DUE DILIGENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENT
AEFJN POSITION PAPER ABSTRACT A recent study carried out for the European Commission (January 2020) warned of the ineffectiveness of voluntary measures that companies take to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for adverse corporate impacts on human rights and the...
How a new Due Diligence in the European Union could help in Africa?
The European Commission has announced a legislative initiative on mandatory due diligence for companies on human rights and environmental compliance that will be required of European companies by 2021.[1] For the first time, such legislation would be mandatory for...
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The Voices of Affected Communities in the African Peoples Tribunal
At the end of November 2020, the long awaited first African Peoples Tribunal (APT) held in Lagos Nigeria. AEFJN joined hands with many other civil society organizations from Africa and Europe under the auspices of Our Land is Our Life platform to support communities...
Towards a sustainable food system: the deplorable situation of women in Africa
Women participate significantly in the rural economy. They produce most of the local food and feed the family. In addition to this back-breaking agricultural work, they also fulfill their role as mothers, managing the household and educating the children. It is...
Sustainable agriculture: a success story from the Daughters of Mary and Joseph in Uganda
It is not sufficient to tell people our values but we also embody and live our values. AEFJN is on the frontline of the struggle for sustainable food system and agriculture; and our member Congregations are committed to this value. It is not satisfactory to identify...
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A Simplified Screening Sheet for Low Quality or Falsified Finished Pharmaceutical Products
Introduction: You are a doctor, nurse, pharmacist or even a customs officer... this concerns you! You work in a pharmacy, a pharmaceutical warehouse, a health centre, a hospital or even a customs office...this concerns you! Medicines of inferior quality (called...
THE PANDEMIC IS A SOCIAL CRISIS
AEFJN is member of the International Health Determinants Working Group in Brussels. This working group has recently issued a statement addressed to governments showing that the Covid-19 pandemic has created a social crisis with a serious impact on health that...
The African Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
The first case of Covid 19 was diagnosed in Wuhan (China) on December 1, 2019. By January, the epidemic had spread to Southeast Asia, America and Europe, and on January 11, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus proclaimed the Covid 19 pandemic. The...
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LOOKING BEYOND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN 2021
The year 2020 will remain indelible in the mind of this generation. With the emergence of covid-19, all the ambitious plans of 2020 came to nought. It will go down in history as a year that defied the power of science and human prediction. As the year winds to a...
ECHOS OF THE 2020 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF AEFJN IN ROME
STRENGTHENING NETWORKING IN AFRICA The 2020 (32nd) Annual General Assembly of AEFJN and our first-ever virtual AGM, took place on 12 November 2020, with the theme, “STRENGTHENING NETWORKING IN AFRICA”. There were 42 participants at the meeting, out of which 28 member...
Season of Creation Week 4 A Chance for the Church
What we can learn from the Corona crisis: A Chance for the Church Pope Francis on Good Friday in front of the deserted square of St. Peter's, deeply immersed in prayer in front of the Roman plague cross, is an image we will not soon forget. Celebrating Easter in front...
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THE NON-FINANCIAL REPORTING DIRECTIVE: KEY ELEMENT FOR A SUCCESSFUL DUE DILIGENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS
The EU Non-financial Reporting Directive –NFRD (Directive 2014/95/EU)[1] set up the regulation about non-financial and diversity information that big EU companies must disclose in their annual report. This EU regulation obliged European companies since 2018 to develop...
An Untapped Gem of the African Family-Farming System
The African economy is still mostly rural-based and informal, driven by family-holders farmers; primarily women. The improvement of the African family- farmers system will achieve the dual targets of addressing some of the poverty reduction and gender imbalance...