16th March 2022 – In a landmark development yesterday, the European Union (EU), South Africa, India and USA are reported to have reached a compromise in long-running negotiations for a waiver on intellectual property (IP) rights for coronavirus products. However, it still needs agreement from EU member countries as well as other World Trade Organization...
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SDRs Are Not a Magic Wand! Put Them to Good Use
By Charlie B Chilufya, S.J. On 8th March 2022, JENA, through its affiliate member organisation, the Zimbabwe-based Jesuit NGO, Silveira House, met with the Budget, Finance and Economic Development Committee of the Zimbabwean Parliament in Harare to discuss some of the best ways African countries like Zimbabwe could employ to fully benefit from the recent Special...
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A Missed Opportunity? The Timid Outcome of the 2022 African Union-European Union Summit
Fernando C. Saldivar, S.J. The Sixth African Union – European Union (AU-EU) Summit concluded in Brussels on 18 February 2022 after two days of deliberations between leaders from the two continents. Given that this marked the first occasion for AU and EU heads of state to come together since 2017 there were high hopes on...
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COP 26: Please Open Your Hearts!”
Charles B. Chilufya, S.J. “Please open your hearts…” so went the strong and passionate call from the 26-year-old Kenyan climate activist Elizabeth Muthuti as she spoke to the world leaders yesterday on the first day of the world leaders’ summit of the COP 26 hosted by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. She moved our hearts to...
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Can COP-26 Integrate Economics, Development, Climate and Global Justice?
By Charles B. Chilufya, SJ As nations start an important conversation on climate in Glasgow starting today, Monday 1st November, we are worried that conversations around climate action and development often take place in silos and are often driven by myopic economic and national interest. Climate action and development and even poverty eradication are inextricably...
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COP26: Can this be an Opportunity for African Countries to Shape the Climate Agenda?
Charles B. Chilufya, S.J. There is every hope that 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) will go beyond the usual rhetoric we have seen from previous meetings as countries prepare to launch an adaptation goal and adopt strategies for achieving such a goal. Can this also be an opportunity for African countries...
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Small Country, Big Voice – The Gambia at the Frontier of International Human Rights Litigation
Fernando C. Saldivar, S.J. Global Policy and Advocacy Officer – Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network Africa (JENA) The Gambia is the smallest country within mainland Africa, entirely surrounded by Senegal with the exception of its western coast on the Atlantic Ocean. From east to west it extends approximately 330 km and less than 50 km...
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Another Moral Case for Vaccine Equity
By Charlie B. Chilufya, S.J A recent study done this year showed that there is greater vaccine hesitancy in high-income countries than in low- and middle-income countries driven mostly by conspiracy theorising. According to the study reported on 16 July in Nature Medicine, 80% of individuals surveyed in ten low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia, Africa and...
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Consolidate democracy and promote the rule of law in DR Congo
By Alain NZADI-a-NZADI, sj This year’s social days brought participants to reflect, for three days, around the theme of consolidating democracy and promoting the rule of law in DR Congo. The two panelists of the first day analyzed in turn the fundamental reasons for the chronic political instability in DR Congo, the means to end...
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Workshop for Zimbabwe MPs on Tackling Illicit Financial Flows
By Charlie Chilufya, S.J The JENA Director, Fr Charles Chilufya. S.J. and the JENA Global Policy and Advocacy Officer, Fernando Saldivar, S.J joined Silveira House on 6th May 2021 at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Harare to deliver a workshop on Tackling Illicit Financial Flows in Zimbabwe. Generally, illicit financial flows is an umbrella term for...
The Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network Africa (JENA) is a diverse community of faith-inspired Jesuit NGOs, also known as Social Centre’s, related Jesuit Institutions, individual Jesuit peace and development activists and scholars driven by a vision of a just, poverty-free, peaceful and ecologically regenerative Africa.