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...
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...
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...
More than 100 Catholic Church leaders signed the Bishops’ Statement: “Now more than ever, We need mandatory supply chain due diligence to stop corporate abuse and guarantee global solidarity”. The statement demands States to urgently stop ongoing corporate abuse by...
The binding agreement of the Paris Conference (COP 21) on climate change established the objective of reducing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. This reduction of CO2 is considered essential to significantly reduce the risks produced by climate change, as well as the...
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...
More than ever, covid 19 has created or deepened awareness of the importance and safety of producing and consuming locally. This awareness has increased a growing global consensus on the need to reform food systems to achieve sustainable development goals. From this...
A recent UCLouvain report written by Margot Vermeylen and Olivier De Schutter shows that agroecology is not a priority for Belgian development cooperation. Olivier De Schutter, professor and UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, and former UN...
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...
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...
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...
WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THE CORONA CRISIS: An Experience of our Mortality The sudden outbreak of the Corona crisis has changed our private and public lives dramatically. Many things that were taken for granted and many certainties have been shaken: the workplace,...
Another opportunity to transform the long-standing EU-AU partnership into life serving relationship for both stakeholders hangs on a balance. It remains to be seen whether the EU is prepared to walk the talk or pursue her usual antics of African exploitation. Summits...
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, in Minneapolis, Minnesota[1], died miserably and painfully out of police brutality. The video in the social media showed that the white police officer, Derek Chauvin, killed him by kneeling on his neck for about...
OUR LIFE AFTER THE PANDEMIC MUST NOT BE A REPLICA OF LIFE BEFORE IT[1] As a network of religious women and men who have missionaries working in the remotest villages in Africa, AEFJN has firsthand information and experiences of the poorest in this beautiful continent....
