STATES RESUME HISTORIC UNITED NATIONS NEGOTIATIONS AMIDST GROWING CONSENSUS ON THE NEED FOR BINDING REGULATIONS ON TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS 25 OCTOBER 2021, GENEVA Today, United Nations member states resume negotiations in the seventh session of the...
One of the most successful campaigns in the year 2000 led to debt relief for 37 of the world's poorest countries. 20 years later, Africa is once again in a debt crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic. This new debt crisis has become a burning political issue. How did the...
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...
STATES RESUME HISTORIC UNITED NATIONS NEGOTIATIONS AMIDST GROWING CONSENSUS ON THE NEED FOR BINDING REGULATIONS ON TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS 25 OCTOBER 2021, GENEVA Today, United Nations member states resume negotiations in the seventh session of the...
The management of a country's natural resources depends exclusively on its government. In the case of mining and extractive activities such as gas or oil, it is important that governments ensure the correct processing of administrative and geological requirements that...
7th of September 2021 Re: Release of the "third revised draft" during the negotiation by the Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on the elaboration of an international legally binding instrument to regulate the activities of transnational corporations (TNCs)...
Launched in 2006 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation upon an initiative by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is an Africa-based and -led organization that seeks to transform...
The transformation of food systems is a responsibility, not an action of choice. We need change and we will only do so by coming together and helping be that change.[1] For over a decade, farmers, fishers, pastoralists, and food workers have been demanding a food...
At the beginning of June 2021, the Coalition Against Hunger[1] (CCF) and Mrs. MeryameKitir, the Belgian Minister of Development Cooperation, met to exchange views on agroecology and the upcoming United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS). This meeting took place in...
A global challenge Only 2% of the African population has been vaccinated against Covid-19 to date. Yet, according to the WHO, this vaccination should progress much faster in low and middle income countries and elsewhere in the world. If not, we will see new waves of...
Inadequate access to quality and affordable medical products in Africa has been a major public health challenge for decades in a majority of the 55 African states. This is partly due to the weakness of National Medicine Regulatory Authorities (NMRAs) - or, in...
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....
The question of equality in the EU-Africa partnership was the subject matter in a recent event organized by Portuguese CSOs on the occasion of her presidency of the European Union (EU). The scene of the debate presents a demand for a shift from technocratic paradigm...
AEFJN stands out as a principal actor in the Our Land is Our Life platform promoting collaborative multi-level advocacy between Faith and non-Faith based actors in Africa in favour of the UN treaty on Trans-national corporations (TNCs). Our conviction is that having a...
The annual AEFJN antenna meeting was held virtually on the 8th of May 2021. Even though we would have wished an in-person presence meeting; the benefit of having it online was that it enabled African antennae to participate. We had representation from France, Kenya,...
African Civil Society and Faith leaders Call for Urgent Action at the African – European Union Foreign ministers’ conference African civil society and faith leaders of the Our Land is Our Life Platform call on African and European Foreign Ministers to ensure African...
This quarter, the last of the year, is a beehive of crucial international political processes involving Africa, beginning from the France-Africa summit of 8 October to the COP 26, November 1-12. These political processes, and similar ones that occur at other times of...
Increasingly frequent terrorist attacks by Islamist militias are endangering the political stability in the states of the Sahel zone, which are among the poorest in the world and have the highest birth rate. The violent death of Chad's president makes the fight...
