The bible and social and ecological justice Justice is a key word in the Bible. All books speak of God’s justice and mercy. God is just, a just judge and God is on the side of the poor who are treated unjustly. God demands the same from his people and from his...
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...
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...
In December 2019, the European Union agreed on the objective of achieving a climate-neutral EU by 2050.[1] The fight against climate change along with the aim to limit global warming to well below 2°C in this century are at the heart of the EU's energy policies.[2]...
Brussels (2nd March 2020). The EU Regulation on the responsible supply of tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold (3TG) from conflict-affected and high-risk areas (CAHRA) is a crucial first step towards supply chains free from human rights abuse. The EU Regulation on the...
The European Commission recognises that mining and extractive companies in Africa are responsible for 65% of tax fraud, i.e. the money that states in Africa fail to collect due to the Illicit Financial Flows (IFF).[1] The mechanisms that the multinationals use for tax...
In August 2001, the inhabitants of the villages of Kitemba, Luwunga, Kijunga and Kiryamakobe (approximately 4,000 peasants) in Mubende district (Uganda) were violently expelled from their ancestral land of 2,524 hectares they have been living on for years. The...
In April 2019, AEFJN participated in a series of activities organised by our platform of civil society organisations. The activities aimed at making more known the difficulties of both the European and African dairy farmers while at the same time making demands for...
Côte d'Ivoire has drawn up the National Agricultural Investment Programme (PNIA) to give new impetus to its agricultural development policy. Perceived as an appropriate tool to fight against food insecurity, taking into account all the problems of the agricultural...
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 bible and social and ecological justice Justice is a key word in the Bible. All books speak of God’s justice and mercy. God is just, a just judge and God is on the side of the poor who are treated unjustly. God demands the same from his people and from his...
Word and Life Throughout the whole Bible runs the demand not only to hear the Word of God but to live it and to make it a guide for our daily decisions. Our faith, which is based on the Word of Scripture, wants to be lived. Faith without the works is...
Word and Eucharist "Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.” (Mt 9:35) The life of the Church also needs both: proclamation through...
Listening is very challenging. It goes beyond understanding the logic of words to hear the cry of the meaning of life behind those words. However, the positions that we cling to, the illusions of life, the prejudices and privileges that we are bent on justifying...
The failure of the United Nations annual Conference (COP25) in Madrid in December 2019 to come up with a serious commitment to the climate change challenges does not portend well. The situation continues to cast a long shadow over our way of thinking about ourselves,...
Many Eritreans have been forced to seek refuge in Europe, but little is known about the dictatorial and oppressive regime behind the forced migration that has placed many of them outside their ancestral home. The current wave of draconian regulations has been targeted...
