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...
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 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 EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders, at a conference organised by the Business Conduct Working Group of the European Parliament, announced the launch of a new mandatory Due Diligence regulation on human rights and the environment in 2021. The new feature of...
The economic system imposed by globalization has progressively ignored the real concerns and needs of citizens. In the European Union, the governments of member states have been adopting labour rights cuts, the privatisation of health care system, salary cuts and...
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...
On Wednesday 29 April 2020, RTBF revealed the hidden face of the palm oil group SOCFIN, while this company benefits from the so-called "socially responsible" bank financing. This is not however the first time that this company has been singled out. This new...
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...
The Holy Father Pope Francis has appointed Fr. Daisuke Narui, SVD as the new bishop of Niigata Diocese in Japan. The announcement was remarkably made on May 31, 2020 on the feast of Pentecost. Fr Daisuke was until his appointment the Vice-President of AEFJN and the...
Studying - Reading – Sharing God’s Word Texts of Scripture can have various levels of meaning. There is not the one universal interpretation. How individuals and communities interpret a biblical text depends greatly on their life situation and their cultural...
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...
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....
I still vividly remember Le Chartelier’s Principle. I first met it in my junior secondary school days, in a subject called Integrated Science. The principle describes what happens in a chemical system that is in an overall balanced state called equilibrium. According...
