AFRICA EUROPE FAITH AND JUSTICE NETWORK is a Faith-based Network present in AFRICA and in EUROPE. AEFJN promotes economic justice between Europe and Africa.
The session of the Human Rights Council at the UN in Geneva in March 2022 is very important because it will receive the report about the advances on the negotiations of the Binding Treaty #UNtreaty@StopTNCimpunity
Africa governments are called upon to emulate the newly elected Honduran President Xiomara Castro who has banned open-pit mining, declaring it harmful to the environment and to people.https://t.co/CmUSxZzMXd @OLOL#stopcorporateimpunity#ecohealth
The phenomenon of land grabbing, in its various forms and names deprives communities of their main means of sustenance-the land. It is therefore an internationally reprehensible crime @OLOL#stoplandgrabs#foodsovereignty
To walk together is the constitutive way of the Church; it is the condition for following the Lord Jesus and being servants of life in this wounded time #Pope Francis #Synod#Socialjustice https://t.co/RSEkWttSfA
Africans are not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion from the table of EU-Africa partnership. We want and demand the full menu of right and genuine human solidarity #EU-Africa partnership.
We underline the obligations of the EU and the AU to protect human rights defenders, particularly those related to land, water and natural resources, and denounce their criminalization
📢 “It is evident that #AU and #EU are not equal. We need to reflect upon the colonial and imperial mentality that still dictates a significant part of the current dialogues”
Fr. Chika, from @AEFJN, shares his reflection around the #AUEUSummit ➡️ https://t.co/wuoG4Dy9Wn
🚨 Join the African People’s summit ahead of the #EUAUSummit and participate in the discussion around #land, #Agroecology and more!
👉 Organised by Our Land is Our Life
➡️ Register: https://t.co/1z36GcWMqq
To help @vonderleyen keep her promise next month...
we have identified the most important ingredients of a law on corporate due diligence and liability + what's already on the table around Europe
Let's dig in 👇
https://t.co/7vopeM1AfY
BREAKING :
Worldwide #IndigenousPeoples, supported by 170 NGOs, say that the European Union’s landmark anti-deforestation law is likely to fail unless businesses are required to respect international laws and standards on land rights.
https://t.co/7xDUUK3JZB
#LandRightsNow
Today, indigenous peoples supported by CSOs around the world call for the 🇪🇺 European Union’s anti-deforestation law to require businesses to respect traditional communities’ rights over their territories. #LandRightsNow#HoldBizAccountable
Our letter to EU policymakers. 👇
Our new report with @cleanclothes, @ECCHRBerlin and @publiceye_ch identifies 12 key interpretations of the norms that legislators must get right when establishing mandatory #HRDD laws, lest they become a paper tiger. https://t.co/M0Ih2Makd1