Environmental Responsibility The civil society is unceasingly denouncing the mining companies´ behaviour in Africa. Most of the denounced cases involve companies from developed countries such as the French AREVA, the Swiss Glencore, the French-Israeli Beny Steinmetz,...
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...
Saying the same lie many times does not make the lie become true; the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) do not help for the poverty reduction. The Directorate General of Trade of the European Union (DG Trade) presents annually reports and updated documents in...
With an annual turnover of more than two billion euros and an exploitation rate of 102.208 tons per month, the Senegalese Society of Phosphates (SEPHOS, S.A) operates in the outskirts of Koudiadiéne. However, this exploitation is causing environmental and health...
The global economy led by developed countries is in a dynamic of profit maximization. Large and medium-sized companies design fiercely strategic plans that allow them to increase their profits through access to new markets, obtaining cheaper raw materials and above...
The current technological societies and the increasing consumption of electronic devices such as computers, mobile phones, tablets and all kinds of batteries have caused an unrestricted search for minerals that are necessary for their manufacture. Africa is a...
On the 5th of July 2019, Milieudefensie / Friends of the Earth Netherlands lodged complaint before the Netherlands National Contact Point of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). This specific instance establishes how ING Group (ING), a...
In the last edition of our newsletter, we published a story under this title and have received comments and questions arising from the content of the story. What follows now is an attempt to respond to some of these questions within the limits of the available space....
In West Africa, local milk production represents a major development issue and a significant potential for livestock farmers and other actors in the region. The project of a West Africa "milk offensive" supported by ECOWAS confirms this potential and shows support...
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...
Trade agreements have potentially very damaging impacts on health. They multiply precarious jobs, weaken working conditions and open up the health sector more widely to the market. Here is the analysis of the working group of Be-cause Health and the Health and...
The AMRH was launched in 2009 with the aim of helping African countries to set up an effective system for the registration of medicines, thanks to regional harmonisation and capacity building. Likewise, the AMRH tried to improve the fragmented regulating system for...
AEFJN participated in the Second Laudato SI reflection day organized recently by CIDSE[1] in collaboration with COMECE[2], CCEE[3], GCCM[4], JESC[5] and Justice & Peace Europe. It was a discernment space offered by these Church actors to keep not only the Spirit of...
The President, the Executive board and the entire membership of AEFJN celebrate the re-election of François de Paul Houngue into the General leadership team of the Society of African Missions (SMA). François de Paul was the immediate past President of AEFJN and...
AEFJN participated in a migration colloquium organised by the Jesuit Refuge Services (JRS) in the upbeat of the EU elections and made position clear on the issue. Perhaps, apart from climate change debate, no subject garnered as much as migrations in Europe while the...
Environmental Responsibility The civil society is unceasingly denouncing the mining companies´ behaviour in Africa. Most of the denounced cases involve companies from developed countries such as the French AREVA, the Swiss Glencore, the French-Israeli Beny Steinmetz,...
A significant trajectory of the AEFJN new work plan is an orientation towards an African driven interfaith advocacy. It is not enough that Africa must take her future in her arms, but such efforts must be seen to go beyond religious and tribal lines for it to be...
A member of the Congolese environmental and human rights organisation RIAO-RDC was brutally killed by a security guard of the Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc. on Sunday, July 21, 2019, near the company’s Boteka plantations in Bempumba, Eqauteur Province,...
