In 2015, AEFJN co-founded Our Land is Our Life platform following the African Continental Land and Just Governance conference in Limuru, Kenya. She co-organised it with SECAM, AFJN CIDSE and several other Church actors with several Civil Society actors’ participation....
The last Civil Society Dialogue of the EU commission held the 22nd of March provided information about the ongoing negotiations of the existing EU-ESA Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the EU and the so called “ESA-5 – Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, the...
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...
Introduction. The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) is an international treaty that came into force in the last decade of the last century. The ECT is a multilateral investment agreement signed by more than 50 countries and its main objective is to ensure the protection of...
Yesterday, the European Parliament adopted with a large majority, 504 in favour, 79 against and 112 abstentions, the Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) legislative own-initiative report by MEP Lara Wolters on corporate due diligence and corporate...
Niger Delta The Niger Delta region of Nigeria is one of the most polluted areas in the world. In the 1950s, important oil reserves were discovered in the area and since then the region has been a battle ground of environmental conflicts between international oil...
Workshop at the Africa-Europe Civil Society Conference WORLD FOOD DAY 16 OCTOBER 2020 Document in PDF OUR-LAND-OUR-LIFE
With the collaboration with DKA Austria and CIDSE, AEFJN supported the representation of communities affected by the activities of CHP (subsidiary of Siat) in Côte d’Ivoire at the Africa Peoples’ Tribunal. Following an article published in our previous echoes of...
At the end of November 2020, the long awaited first African Peoples Tribunal (APT) held in Lagos Nigeria. AEFJN joined hands with many other civil society organizations from Africa and Europe under the auspices of Our Land is Our Life platform to support communities...
Importance of the problem The number of cancer cases[1] in African low- and middle-income countries continues to rise with the relative ageing of the population. In 2018, an estimated 811,000 new cancer cases and 534,000 cancer deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa....
An adequate supply of quality assured health products is essential for a strong health system capable of ensuring access to essential medicines and treatments. Already before the pandemic, central pharmaceutical stores in many African countries were far from being...
The coronavirus pandemic has taught us how vulnerable and interdependent we are. The pandemic is global; so must be the solution! Scientists have responded to this challenge by developing in record time vaccines that can help us overcome the pandemic. They were able...
On Fraternity and social friendship. Fratelli Tutti Religions at the service of humanity in our world All religions proclaim a message of peace. At the same time, all of them, including Buddhism and Christianity, have a long, painful history of violence, leading some...
On Fraternity and social friendship. Fratelli Tutti Dialogue and Friendship in Society In Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis gives us a vision of a fraternal humanity. What are the concrete steps on the way to this ideal? Reconciliation and understanding for other people,...
Fraternity and social friendship. Fratelli Tutti A BETTER KIND OF POLITICS When we hear the word charity, we think of care and help for the needy, the suffering and the poor. For Pope Francis, love that addresses the structural causes of suffering and poverty is also...
In 2015, AEFJN co-founded Our Land is Our Life platform following the African Continental Land and Just Governance conference in Limuru, Kenya. She co-organised it with SECAM, AFJN CIDSE and several other Church actors with several Civil Society actors’ participation....
Last months, AEFJN co-organised two webinars bringing together key actors in advocacy work in Africa. The "Our Land is Our Life" platform met on 2 February to reflect on our experiences as church and non-church actors working together, to share our advocacy experience...
The EU-Africa partnership's external morphology presents an erroneous impression of an economic relationship between the two continents that have undergone transformative evolutions from predation to symbiosis through the centuries. However, a cursory look at this...
