My participation in the CGLTE (Convergence Globale des Luttes pour la Terre et l’Eau) Caravan has continued to enrich me with transformative and profound inner experiences. While providing me with a unique opportunity to be on the frontline of social action, it has...
One of the most successful campaigns in the year 2000 led to debt relief for 37 of the world's poorest countries. 20 years later, Africa is once again in a debt crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic. This new debt crisis has become a burning political issue. How did the...
The last Civil Society Dialogue of the EU commission held the 22nd of March provided information about the ongoing negotiations of the existing EU-ESA Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the EU and the so called “ESA-5 – Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, the...
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...
A Legally Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights (Legally binding Instrument- LBI) is being negotiated at United Nations since 2014. The idea of a treaty of this character is not something that came from the whim and caprice of civil society but from the need to...
The media show us regularly the drama of forced migration. It is characterized by gory images of tragedies such as the migrants at the border of Poland and Belarus, people affected by environmental disasters such as those in the Niger Delta, caravans of migrants...
PRESS RELEASE 2 NOVEMBER, GENEVA: From 25 to 29 October United Nations member states continued the negotiations to elaborate an international Legally Binding Instrument (LBI) to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational...
In our previous publications[1] we shared about the unique contribution of women in advancing agroecology as means of achieving sustainable food systems. This present article continues the reflection with a practical experience of a rural community of women in Kenya....
The demand for land and natural resources has significantly accelerated in the last two decades due to the 2008 food price crisis and resulting land speculations. This led to a surge in large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs), often referred to as land grabbing. Since...
Launched in 2006 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation upon an initiative by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is an Africa-based and -led organization that seeks to transform...
A global challenge Only 2% of the African population has been vaccinated against Covid-19 to date. Yet, according to the WHO, this vaccination should progress much faster in low and middle income countries and elsewhere in the world. If not, we will see new waves of...
Inadequate access to quality and affordable medical products in Africa has been a major public health challenge for decades in a majority of the 55 African states. This is partly due to the weakness of National Medicine Regulatory Authorities (NMRAs) - or, in...
Importance of the problem The number of cancer cases[1] in African low- and middle-income countries continues to rise with the relative ageing of the population. In 2018, an estimated 811,000 new cancer cases and 534,000 cancer deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa....
Depuis 1988 AEFJN œuvre pour la dignité du continent africain et de son peuple. Plaidoyant pour la vie, les droits et la justice, on suit Celui qui “ a pris la condition modeste du serviteur et qui est né comme être humain." (Phil 2,7). Dieu résiste...
Since 1988, AEFJN works for the dignity of the African Continent and their People. Advocating the life, rights, and justice, we follow the One who "took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being" (Phil 2,6). Our God has the strength of those...
The last decades gave us moments of great hopes and of deep disappointments. The collapse of the communist empire seemed to offer a chance for a peaceful world and the progress of democracy. Instead, today we see an increase of ruthless dictatorships and the...
My participation in the CGLTE (Convergence Globale des Luttes pour la Terre et l’Eau) Caravan has continued to enrich me with transformative and profound inner experiences. While providing me with a unique opportunity to be on the frontline of social action, it has...
In our previous publications[1] we shared about the unique contribution of women in advancing agroecology as means of achieving sustainable food systems. This present article continues the reflection with a practical experience of a rural community of women in Kenya....
Caravan West Africa, What is it? The Caravan of the CGLTE-AO (Convergence Globale des Luttes pour la Terre, l’eau and les semences- Afrique de l’Ouest- Global Convergence for land, water and seed struggle, West Africa) is a West African regional coalition of CSOs,...
