The fifth session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights[1] (OEIGWG) met in Geneva from 14 to 18 October to work on the revised Zero draft of the UN binding treaty on...
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...
Among all the natural resources that Africa possesses, minerals are the most coveted by developed countries including the European Union (EU). In fact, in 2017 the European Commission published a Communication[1] updating the list of certain minerals that are...
Environmental Responsibility The civil society is unceasingly denouncing the mining companies´ behaviour in Africa. Most of the denounced cases involve companies from developed countries such as the French AREVA, the Swiss Glencore, the French-Israeli Beny Steinmetz,...
With an annual turnover of more than two billion euros and an exploitation rate of 102.208 tons per month, the Senegalese Society of Phosphates (SEPHOS, S.A) operates in the outskirts of Koudiadiéne. However, this exploitation is causing environmental and health...
SIAT (Société d’Investissement pour l’Agriculture Tropicale) is a Belgian group of agro-industrial companies specializing in the creation and management of oil palm and rubber plantations, as well as related and downstream processing industries. Founded and controlled...
On the 5th of July 2019, Milieudefensie / Friends of the Earth Netherlands lodged complaint before the Netherlands National Contact Point of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). This specific instance establishes how ING Group (ING), a...
In the last edition of our newsletter, we published a story under this title and have received comments and questions arising from the content of the story. What follows now is an attempt to respond to some of these questions within the limits of the available space....
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...
AEFJN participated in the Second Laudato SI reflection day organized recently by CIDSE[1] in collaboration with COMECE[2], CCEE[3], GCCM[4], JESC[5] and Justice & Peace Europe. It was a discernment space offered by these Church actors to keep not only the Spirit of...
The President, the Executive board and the entire membership of AEFJN celebrate the re-election of François de Paul Houngue into the General leadership team of the Society of African Missions (SMA). François de Paul was the immediate past President of AEFJN and...
AEFJN participated in a migration colloquium organised by the Jesuit Refuge Services (JRS) in the upbeat of the EU elections and made position clear on the issue. Perhaps, apart from climate change debate, no subject garnered as much as migrations in Europe while the...
The fifth session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights[1] (OEIGWG) met in Geneva from 14 to 18 October to work on the revised Zero draft of the UN binding treaty on...
Delivering on more sustainable agriculture has never been more compelling than it is now in the face of the growing environmental crises. It is one thing to realize that we are facing a global problem that requires all hands to be on deck, and it is another thing to...
Dear Subscribers, What you have before you is a statement arising from the recently concluded seminar of the Justice Peace & Integrity of Creation commission of the International Union of Superiors General (Union International des Supérieurs Générals -UISG) of...
