July 14, 2021By: Jared Watkins, AFJN Intern Zimbabwean couple Strive and Tsitsi began a foundation in Zimbabwe in 1996 with the original purpose of increasing access to essential needs like education and food. Since this, the foundation has grown massively to expand...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJuly 9, 2021 Washington, DC - Today, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a press release noting that the IMF Executive Board supported the “general allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).” The new allocation of $650 billion is...
By: Josh Schlicht, AFJN InternJuly 1, 2021 Cameroonians are celebrating this month as two domestically produced films will appear on the international streaming giant Netflix. These new additions, titled, ‘A Man for the Weekend’, and ‘Broken’ will accompany two...
June 19, 2021 Today we celebrate Juneteenth, the oldest celebration of emancipation of African Americans from slavery in the United States. Beginning in Galveston Texas, it is now celebrated every year on June 19th. In 2021, President Joe Biden signed a federal law...
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June 17, 2021 The Africa Faith and Justice Network's Women's Empowerment Project with the Africa Faith and Justice Network - Nigeria workshops in May "Youth Arise and Shine - Now is the Time" on human trafficking and child labor was featured on Catholic Television of...
The Africa Faith and Justice Network (AFJN) invites you to join AFJN Policy Analyst, Ntama Bahati Jacques, for a United Nations Civil Society Organization side event “Unraveling Child Labor in the Mining Industry in the Congo Basin” on Friday, June 18, 2021 at 9:00 am...
June 16, 2021By: Sr. Eucharia Madueke, SNDdeN Today the 16th of June, we celebrate the International Day for the African Child. This day, 46 years ago, hundreds of black South African school children lost their lives demanding for their rights to be educated in their...
June 12th is the annual World Day Against Child Labor that was started by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 2002. The sad reality is that "over 218 million children around the world" are deprived according to the International Labor Organization's (ILO)...
Josh Schlicht is an undergraduate at the University of Colorado Boulder. His field of study is International Affairs with a minor in both German and Business. He will finish undergraduate degree in the Spring of 2022. Josh is passionate about Human Rights and conflict...
On May 25, 2021, at 2:00 am ET (US and Canada; 9:00 am Kenya) the Africa Faith and Justice Network premiered a video sponsored by the Coalition for Africa's Liberation and Restoration in honor of the 1-Year Anniversary of CALAR's "A Declaration: Africa Remember Who...
On May 20th, 2021, the National Catholic Reporter's Global Sisters Report published an article titled, "Sisters fight Nigeria trafficking with networking, advocacy and collaboration" by Patrick Egwu. Sr. Eucharia Madueke of AFJN speaks on the positive impact that...
