Faced with the evident failure of the multilateral free trade and investment agreements promoted by the European Union (EPAs, TTIP, MERCOSUR), Europe has developed its commercial strategy through bilateral economic agreements with third countries. The last of these...
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...
Saying the same lie many times does not make the lie become true; the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) do not help for the poverty reduction. The Directorate General of Trade of the European Union (DG Trade) presents annually reports and updated documents in...
Faced with the evident failure of the multilateral free trade and investment agreements promoted by the European Union (EPAs, TTIP, MERCOSUR), Europe has developed its commercial strategy through bilateral economic agreements with third countries. The last of these...
One month after violent incidents in the SOCFIN plantations in Sierra Leone leading to brutal repression by security forces, the death of two people and 15 people arrested, Sierra Leonean and international civil society organisations urge the government of Sierra...
AEFJN has begun the implementation of its new Action Plan for the period 2019-2022. A huge part of the work of the network has focused on the Trade Agreements between the European Union (EU) and Africa during the last decade. The work of civil society has slowed down...
« We need to promote sustainable food systems (...) and preserve the environment: agroecology can help achieve this »[1] A sustainable food system guarantees the right to food, respect for food sovereignty, healthy and sufficient food for present and future...
One month after violent incidents in the SOCFIN plantations in Sierra Leone leading to brutal repression by security forces, the death of two people and 15 people arrested, Sierra Leonean and international civil society organisations urge the government of Sierra...
The Namibian government recently repealed a 2015 law that required at least 20% of company management to be in the hands of Namibians in order to prevent foreign ownership of mining resources - such as diamonds and uranium -. According to the Ministry of Mines, it is...
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...
The AMRH was launched in 2009 with the aim of helping African countries to set up an effective system for the registration of medicines, thanks to regional harmonisation and capacity building. Likewise, the AMRH tried to improve the fragmented regulating system for...
The Extraordinary Missionary Month 2019 – Resources "The church is missionary by nature", all papal pronouncements on mission illustrate this paradigm: starting with Maximum Illud ( Pope Benedict XV); the Council document Ad Gentes; by Evangelii Nuntiandi (Paul VI)...
The Extraordinary Missionary Month 2019 – Papal Documents A historical overview of the most important papal pronouncements allows us realize, that the church does not only have a mission, but that she is missionary by her very nature. Each moment in history has its...
The Extraordinary Missionary Month 2019 – An overview In the decades following the ravages of the Napoleonic Wars, the Catholic Church developed a tremendous missionary dynamic and engaged in one of the most successful mission initiatives in church history. Many of...
The recent Human Development Report of the UNDP is very insightful and timely too, in the wake of the new ACP-EU partnership negotiations. The report underlines that economic growth does not necessarily translate to an evenly distributed Human Development Progress....
One month after violent incidents in the SOCFIN plantations in Sierra Leone leading to brutal repression by security forces, the death of two people and 15 people arrested, Sierra Leonean and international civil society organisations urge the government of Sierra...
As we begin the implementation of the AEFJN 2019-2022 action plan our attention is, once more, drawn to the systemic drivers of poverty, hunger and ecological destruction in Africa. For reasons not easy to comprehend, the industrialised countries of Europe, America...
