To end this season of creation we offer you the last meditation from German Antennae. Creation - a reflexion of the...
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Trade and Human (Rights) Development
The yearly European Development Days took place at the beginning of June in Brussels. For 2 days, the participants were able to participate in debates that tackled different aspects of the development promoted by the European Union (EU). It is this understanding...
Dodging development : trade mispricing
One of the reasons African countries miss out on the opportunities of globalization is the existence of huge financial outflows that are draining African economies of much duly needed financial resources that could otherwise be used to spur investment in local...
Madagascar: Challenges for an African economy
Introduction Madagascar, the forgotten country of Africa, is separated by more than 400 km from the African continent by the channel of Mozambique. Its landscape, the richness of its biodiversity, its ecosystems, its natural riches and the ethnic variety of its...
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TRANSPARENCY RULES: SHEDDING LIGHT ON OBSCURITY?
The European Parliament has voted on enhancing the transparency of tax payments made by multinationals in different countries. A broad majority of MEPs[1] introduced public, country by country reporting (CBCR), obliging companies with a revenue of 750 million € to...
Koudiadiène: a case in progress
First field survey of the secretariat : May 2014 In May 2014, the secretariat went for a first time to the villages of Koudiadiène et Thiafathie. A member of the network had notified the secretariat about mining activity in the region and its impacts on the local...
Non-Financial Report and Social Corporate Responsibility
Economic globalization has brought important changes in business activities at international level. Many international enterprises have developed their activities and have diversified their business scope due to new economic agreements that have opened companies to...
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Video: The Impacts of Large Scale Farming in Tanzania
Land grabbing has become a recurring phenomenon in Africa but the situation in Tanzania is a disaster; from the northern part of the country where about 40,000 of the Maasai tribe were said to have been evicted from their ancestral land to enable the Dubai Royal...
Video: The Impacts of Large Scale Farming in Tanzania
Land grabbing has become a recurring phenomenon in Africa but the situation in Tanzania is a disaster; from the northern part of the country where about 40,000 of the Maasai tribe were said to have been evicted from their ancestral land to enable the Dubai Royal...
EU Fishing deals in Africa: Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel
Summary: The new generation fishing deals that the EU is concluding with African countries are termed Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements. However, especially in West-Africa, overfishing together with Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU)[1] fishing are...
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REPORT FROM THE W.H.O. FORUM ON FAIR PRICING FOR MEDICINES (Amsterdam – May 2017)
Sustainable Development Objective 3 is to "ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages". This implies access to medicines (targets 3.8 and 3b) which is also a finance issue. The situation of financial accessibility is getting worse for both old and...
The Glyphosate War
When the legal documents of the trial against Monsanto regarding glyphosate (Roundup, herbicide) were published, we were asked to review the material. This consists of 54 documents, hundreds of pages + 31 related documents. This is part of our continuing discussion on...
Publication of the WHO Model for the Regulation of Medical Devices
In 1977, WHO, the World Health Organisation, drew up its first list of essential medicines (EML). The EML, adapted in more than 150 WHO Member States, is a landmark for the prioritisation of medicines in the public sector of health systems. Since at least 1988[1], WHO...
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Season of creation week 5
To end this season of creation we offer you the last meditation from German Antennae. Creation - a reflexion of the...
News from the UK Antenna
In June, Gino Brunswijck from the Secretariat came to speak to the UK Antenna. He gave a comprehensive input on globalisation and how, when badly managed, it has adverse consequences in African countries. On the theme of land-grabbing, we heard how the EU trade policy...
Season of creation week 4
Continuing the season of creation we offer you a new meditation from German Antennae. Eucharist Thanksgiving of...
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A cry from the heart: the black continent is going to destabilise the world …
In a seminal article on September 1 in the NZZ[1], Senegalese writer Ken Bugul (real name Marietou Mbaye Bileoma) accuses the African elites of many evils resulting in her asking for a reduction in development aid. Young generations are disoriented, she says, growing...
The Earth is still Groaning… for Obvious Reasons!
While we celebrate the Season of Creation (September 2 - October 4), the recent ecological disasters in the different parts of the world ranging from landslides and mudslides in Cambodia, the USA (California and New York) and Sierra-Leone and floods in India,...
Workshop JPIC Benin
The Secretariat participated in the JPIC workshop in Calavi, Benin, that took place 17 - 29 July. The seminar was attended by 20-25 JPIC coordinators mainly from Benin, but there were also participants from Togo, Ghana, Mali, Burkina Faso, Liberia and Ivory Coast. The...