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...
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...
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...
The 12 km road from Thiès to the commune of Cherif Lo (Senegal) is well paved and adorned with little villages on both sides of the road. Quite noticeable as well on approaching Koudiadiène are the grooves and depressions on the asphalt left by the trucks of great...
On 23rd October 2018 a public action took place at the head office of ING in Brussels to denounce ING investments in the controversial sector of palm oil industry. This action was initiated by a group of international NGOs based in Brussels supported by Milieudefensie...
The Namibian government recently repealed a 2015 law that required at least 20% of company management to be in the hands of Namibians in order to prevent foreign ownership of mining resources - such as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...
Seventy years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), there is reason to wonder whether the rights it states have had a visible impact on the African economy. Adopted in 1948 after the two world wars, the UDHR served as a basis for a...
"Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance."[1] All over the world, gender inequality makes and keeps women poor, depriving them of...
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...
With the support of CIDSE, AEFJN participated in the second edition of Caravan across the ECOWAS region in November 2018. It was an initiative of the Civil Society and Social Movements in the ECOWAS sub-region under the auspices of Convergence Globale, to bring their...
The Secretariat of AEFJN started the New Year 2019 with the visit of the new President; André Claessens. The team expressed its commitment to the New Plan of Action (2019-2022) and pointed to the forthcoming European elections as a wonderful opportunity to advance...
The 2018 Annual General Assembly (AGM) of our Network took place on 8 November 2018, with the theme – ‘AEFJN @ 30 YEARS! LET’S MOVE ON!’. As aptly captioned in the theme, this year marked the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the network. This Assembly was...
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...
From the dawn of this new year, my heart has not seized to savor the experience of the Convergence Globale caravan through the ECOWAS region in November 2018. There has never been an iota of doubt in my mind about the power and value of collaborative advocacy but my...
Alors qu’ING a lancé une campagne sur l’investissement durable (« c’est bien pour votre avenir et le mien »), un groupe d’ONG s’est rendu dans plus de 20 agences à travers le pays pour dénoncer les financements toxiques d’ING à certaines entreprises du secteur de...
