Context We, members of a broad alliance of civil society and faith-based organisations across Africa, take this opportunity to voice our concerns and recommendations towards the upcoming EU-AU Summit. African civil society has been following recent EU-driven processes...
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...
AEFJN POSITION PAPER ABSTRACT A recent study carried out for the European Commission (January 2020) warned of the ineffectiveness of voluntary measures that companies take to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for adverse corporate impacts on human rights and the...
The European Commission has announced a legislative initiative on mandatory due diligence for companies on human rights and environmental compliance that will be required of European companies by 2021.[1] For the first time, such legislation would be mandatory for...
The Governance The United Nations Environmental Assembly has opened a consultation period on the governance of mineral resources in June 2020.[1] This consultation is an opportunity to develop an international treaty requiring all countries to better manage mineral...
Women participate significantly in the rural economy. They produce most of the local food and feed the family. In addition to this back-breaking agricultural work, they also fulfill their role as mothers, managing the household and educating the children. It is...
It is not sufficient to tell people our values but we also embody and live our values. AEFJN is on the frontline of the struggle for sustainable food system and agriculture; and our member Congregations are committed to this value. It is not satisfactory to identify...
The UN United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas was adopted by the United Nations (UN) at the end of 2018 by a large majority (121 votes in favour, 54 abstentions, 8 votes against). This Declaration marks the...
AEFJN is member of the International Health Determinants Working Group in Brussels. This working group has recently issued a statement addressed to governments showing that the Covid-19 pandemic has created a social crisis with a serious impact on health that...
The first case of Covid 19 was diagnosed in Wuhan (China) on December 1, 2019. By January, the epidemic had spread to Southeast Asia, America and Europe, and on January 11, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus proclaimed the Covid 19 pandemic. The...
Introduction Dystocia (i.e., births problem) continue to cause significant maternal mortality in low-income countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Oxytocin has long been successfully used for the treatment of some dystocia and for the treatment of post-partum...
What we can learn from the Corona crisis: A Chance for the Church Pope Francis on Good Friday in front of the deserted square of St. Peter's, deeply immersed in prayer in front of the Roman plague cross, is an image we will not soon forget. Celebrating Easter in front...
What we can learn from the Corona crisis: The End of many (collective) Illusions The tremendous developments in science and technology over the last centuries have enticed us to believe in unlimited progress and to imagine that through science and technology all...
WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THE CORONA CRISIS: An Invitation to live in Solidarity Crises can bring out the best and the worst in people. The Corona crisis has triggered an unexpected solidarity. Doctors and nurses, pastoral and...
Context We, members of a broad alliance of civil society and faith-based organisations across Africa, take this opportunity to voice our concerns and recommendations towards the upcoming EU-AU Summit. African civil society has been following recent EU-driven processes...
EVENT OF OUR LAND IS OUR LIFE WHEN SPIDERS UNITE THEIR WEBS, THEY TIE A LION AEFJN co-organizes a session of the VENRO Lobby event of the German Presidency of the European Union. The details of the session is found following. AEFJN will facilitate the breakout session...
Looking at the world today, one cannot but be alarmed at the growing inequality at the different levels of our socio-economic organizations. More people, and even nations, are willy-nilly systematically excluded from access to the common good. The tragedy is that no...
