AFJN Intern
On September 13th, 2016, the Human Rights Watch published an article called “Coalition of NGO, Diaspora Groups Support Ethiopia Human Rights Resolution” that features AFJN support.
The Catholic Church in Ghana has released a report exposing land injustices in an attempt to urge government officials to protect rural people in the West African nation.
Bishop Matthew Kukah of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Nigeria recently addressed a packed room of staff from Catholic organizations, Africa-focused coalitions and a representative from the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).
By: Rebecca Short, Intern Spring 2016. As the United States buzzes with anticipation of the presidential primaries, everyone is wrapped in the whirlwind of debates, voting and sharing their views…
Land grabbing is a serious problem across Africa, requiring urgent attention since it threatens livelihoods and food security.
On November 23rd, 2015, the Coopération Internationale pour le Développement et la Solidarité published an article titled “Communiqué de Presse: L’accaparement des terres et la gouvernance juste ont été discutés lors d’une conférence panafricaine unique qui commence aujord’hui avant la visite du pape en arique”.
As the G7 leaders prepare to meet in Bavaria this weekend, small-scale farmers from around the world call on them to abandon their disastrous plan for the corporate takeover of global agriculture and the extirpation of small-scale farmers everywhere – those who produce most of the world’s food.
With extreme poverty having been cut in half over the last generation — and the Millennium Development Goals target of poverty halving having been achieved five years ahead of the 2015 deadline — veterans of the global war on poverty believe it is possible that extreme poverty can be wiped out in the next 15 years.
Granted the Islamic State group and the multiple conflicts occurring in the Middle East, is dialogue with Islam possible?
As mentioned yesterday, last week I went to a briefing at the Africa Faith & Justice Network (AFJN) after the group took two trips to Africa last autumn.
AFJN travelled to Brewaniase, a town in Ghana’s Volta Region, to learn more about a potential land grab deal by Herakles Farms, a New York based agribusiness.
It is time for another broader push for reform on conflict minerals and natural resource governance in order to complement the Dodd-Frank legislation and deepen related minerals reforms.
By AFJN Intern Erika De Leener Namibia’s ruling South West Africa People’s Organization ( SWAPO) party has delivered its promise of equal gender representation.With 51% of Namibia’s population being woman…
On October 1st, 2014, AFJN authors and publishes a report titled “Land Grabbing in Africa: Herakles Farms’ Failed Venture in Brewaniase, Ghana” in the Land Portal Foundation.
By Nicole Ngambwa What sort of crime did Meriam Yehya Ibrahim commit for the Sudanese government in Khartoum to imprison her while pregnant, sentence her to 100 lashes and death…
On September 16th, 2016, the Global Witness published a press release titled “Una nueva ley de la UE podría detener el recrudecimiento de los conflictos por el comercio de recursos naturales”.
The Ethiopian military and paramilitary forces, operating in the country’s Ogaden region, are, it is alleged, carrying out extra-judicial killings and gang rapes; falsely arresting and torturing innocent civilians; land ooting and destroying villages and crops in a systematic attempt to terrify the people.
“When ants unite their mouths, they can carry an elephant,” says an African proverb.
Fr Joseph Donders, widely known as ‘Sjef’, died on 7 March 2013 in hospital in Maastricht (Holland) aged 83.
When Pope Benedict XVI said he was stepping down, he broke a tradition that had been in place since 1415.
