Organizers: CIDSE and AEFJN When: Tuesday 23 February 2021, 9 am – 1 pm CET Via Zoom: Pre-registration required Deadline for registrations: Monday 22 February The sixth session of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) on transnational corporations...
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...
Introduction The European Green Deal[1] is the European Union's (EU) strategic plan to take the lead on climate change and make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. The European Green Deal was presented by the President of the European Commission at the...
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...
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...
With the collaboration with DKA Austria and CIDSE, AEFJN supported the representation of communities affected by the activities of CHP (subsidiary of Siat) in Côte d’Ivoire at the Africa Peoples’ Tribunal. Following an article published in our previous echoes of...
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...
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...
The coronavirus pandemic has taught us how vulnerable and interdependent we are. The pandemic is global; so must be the solution! Scientists have responded to this challenge by developing in record time vaccines that can help us overcome the pandemic. They were able...
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...
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...
Fraternity and social friendship. Fratelli Tutti Dreaming of a fraternal world Pope Francis has given us three significant encyclicals. 'The Joy of the Gospel' - on proclaiming the Gospel in the world today; 'Laudato Sí - on care for our common home' and more...
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...
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...
Organizers: CIDSE and AEFJN When: Tuesday 23 February 2021, 9 am – 1 pm CET Via Zoom: Pre-registration required Deadline for registrations: Monday 22 February The sixth session of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) on transnational corporations...
Context We, members of a broad alliance of civil society and faith-based organisations across Africa, take this opportunity to voice our concerns and recommendations towards the upcoming EU-AU Summit. African civil society has been following recent EU-driven processes...
While the COVID -19 pandemic rages on, the UN IGWG (Inter-Governmental Working Group) on Business and Human Right has been working remotely and otherwise on its tasks. The Working Group (IGWG) has remained committed to its February 28, 2021 target of receiving all new...
