African Christian and Muslim religious leaders call on Peace in Nigeria
(Addis Ababa/Nairobi/Lagos/Bonn, 19.01.2012) Christian and Muslim Religious Leaders from various African countries gathered in Addis Ababa from 08.–13.01.2012 to debate on Peace and Development. They call on the Christian and Muslim leadership of Nigeria “to excise maximum restraint and refrain from making pronouncements and statements that would threaten the unity of that Nation and the spirit of togetherness”, according to a statement disseminated by the Programme for Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa (PROCMURA) on 18.01.2012 in Nairobi.more
Villagers protest against worrying laws
(Bonn / Phnom Penh, 22.12.2011) More than 10.000 people from all over Cambodia have signed or thumb printed a petition calling the National Assembly to halt three law drafts worrying civil society in the country. More than 100 villagers from land-dispute communities presented the petition in the national capital of Phnom Penh. All signatures and thumbprints of the petition were presented as a 230 meter long scarf of protest.more
Geopolitics and Financial Crisis Change the Architecture of Development Cooperation
(Bonn, 12.12.2011) Assessment of the 4th High Level Conference on Aid Effevtivenss in Busan, South Korea, 29.11. -1.12.2011- A Civil Society Perspectivemore
Expert Meeting on Outcome and Impact Orientation
(Sankt Augustin, 24.06.2011) Between the 24.-27.05.2011 EED invited several of its Local Support Services (LSS) and external consultants from Africa and Asia to Bonn / Sankt Augustin with the purpose to have a joint reflection on international debate on Aid, Development and CSO effectiveness and other subjects.more
Church and Society
A travel blog, written by delegates from Nigerian churches while visiting Germany in spring 2011more
„The way out of the torrential river“
(Bonn, 06.06.2011) Josephine Goro, head of the Community Development Programme (CCDP) of the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN), has been committed to improving the living conditions of people in the villages since many years. With the support of the EED her churchly development programme is helping to establish schools and medical wards, for which she also obligates the villagers themselves. During May and June she was travelling in Germany for two weeks.more
All Africa Conference of Churches on challenges of transition
(Nairobi, 15.04.2011) Statement on "The Challenges of Democratic Transitions and Self Determination in Africa" by the All Africa Conference of Churchesmore
Dialogue on Development and Theology
(Bonn / Addis Ababa, 22.02.2011) The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, the Ethiopian Kale Haywet Church and EED have agreed to initiate and conduct a Dialogue on Development and Theology. By end of January 2011, the parties have signed a Letter of Intention to respect the differences of doctrine, traditions and national contexts. They aim to deepen the theological understanding of the actual challenges of development in a globalizing world.more
Timid hope at end of climate negotiations in Cancun
(Cancún, 13.12.10) The Cancun Agreement, adopted by the vast majority of parties at the United Nations climate change conference (COP16) in the early morning hours of 11 December, gives guarded hope to churches and civil society groups who had called for decisive action by the world's governments. In an improvement on the process that led to the much-criticized Copenhagen Accord last year, the president of the conference managed to keep the climate negotiations in the multilateral track and make some, although insufficient, steps forward.more
Faith communities stress moral dimension of climate change
(Cancún, 09.12.10) Faith communities came together to address climate change, poverty and sustainable development in a side event jointly organized by Caritas Internationalis, ACT Alliance and the World Council of Churches (WCC) at the Cancun climate summit on 7 December.more
Issuance of Toxic Carbon Credits Undermines Credibility of UNFCCC Process
(Cancún, 08.12.2010) An open letter sent by a broad coalition of green groups including CDM Watch, Greenpeace and WWF to the COP Presidency calls to rescind millions of fake HFC-23 CDM credits. Environmentalists claim that the issuance of those credits has put a black mark on the environmental integrity of the CDM and prompted speculation that the UNFCCC process has been hijacked by special interests.more
Food for all in a warming world?
(Cancún, 02.12.2010) Around 100 people attended a side event yesterday called "Food for all in warming world? Agricultural systems that enable adaptation and support ecosystems". The event was organised by "Brot für die Welt", Church Development Service from Germany and Practical Action from the UK.more
Land deals undermine food security and human rights in Sierra Leone
(Bonn, 29.10.2010) Mohamed Conteh, Director of the NGO "Mankind’s Activities for Development Accreditation Movement" (MADAM) and National Coordinator of the "African Network of the Right for Food", reveals in an EED-Interview, that bio fuels land deals threaten small farmers all over in Sierra Leone. The most current case: A Swiss company plans to invest 200 million Euros to produce ethanol, assisted by the "Deutschen Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft" (DEG), a subsidiary of the state-owned KfW bank.more
'Negative Solidarity' - a Challenge to Peace and Development
(Geneva, 08.10.2010) "We will not have the peace we are looking for if we continue to practice 'negative solidarity'," said Johnson Mbillah while addressing the World Council of Churches (WCC) UN Advocacy Week on September 28, 2010. For Mbillah, negative solidarity manifests itself in ways that divide rather than unite Nigerians and impacts all levels of society including how people are elected to public office. Rev. Dr Mbillah, who is the general advisor to the Programme for Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa (PROCMURA) addressed the issue of ethno-religious politics in Nigeria during a session on Conflict and Violence in Nigeria in Geneva.more
Christian and Muslim religious leaders advocate for peace
(Lomé / Cotonou, 02.09.2010) Religious leaders of Togo and Benin pleaded for proactive attitudes towards peace and development in two national conferences. The conferences were organized by the Pan-African Organisation for Christian-Muslim Relations PROCMURA.more
Human Rights Network commemorates the large number of disappeared in the Philippines
(Essen, 30.08.2010) Over 200 people were disappeared in the Phillippines between 2001 and 2010. In the majority of cases, their fates remain unclear to this day. Their families are desperately waiting for any signs of life. On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared on August 30th, the Action Network Human Rights-Philippines is raising awareness of the plight of these victims of enforced dissapearences.more
The Solidarity Peace Trust urges action to avoid xenophobic violence in South Africa
(Johannesburg, 12.07.2010) The EED partner organisation Solidarity Peace Trust condemns escalating threats of violence against foreigners in South Africa as the country's successful hosting of the FIFA Soccer World Cup draws to a close.more
African Union sets up Interfaith Dialogue Forum
(Addis Ababa / Abuja, 01.07.2010) The African Union (AU) has launched an Interfaith Dialogue Forum to harness the power of religious communities for the integration and development in Africa at a conference with religious leaders from 15 to 17 June 2010 in the Nigerian capital Abuja. It has established a permanent consultative structure to the AU which will meet in every two years.more
New Aviation Tax Must Contribute to Climate Justice
(Bonn, 30.06.2010) The recent decisions taken by the German government in order to restore the federal budget also include a tax on air tickets to be levied from 2011. Even though only two percent of the world's population take flights at all, aviation is a significant contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions. EED therefore generally welcomes the introduction of an air ticket tax by the German government as a first necessary step. However, the revenue has to benefit the people most affected by climate change: "Climate justice is not clever calculation. The revenue generated by an air ticket tax needs to feed into the UN adaptation fund", said Heinz Fuchs, director of EED's Tourism Watch desk.more
Ecumenical visit to Nigeria
(Abuja/Jos, 27.05.2010) An international delegation travelling on behalf of the World Council of Churches (WCC) was welcomed to Abuja by Nigerian church leaders during an ecumenical celebration organized by the Christian Council of Nigeria (CCN) on 16 May 2010. It was the first stop of a four-day visit to Africa's most populous nation as living letters of solidarity. The visit was continued in Plateau state, where more than 500 people were killed in ethnic violence in the early part of 2010. Prelate Ola Makinde, head of the Methodist Church Nigeria, described the visit as an expression of the worldwide solidarity of churches with fellow Christians in Nigeria. He lamented that people in the northern part of the country have been neglected and denied basic rights.more
Pastoralists demand "Livestock Keepers’ Rights"
(Berlin, 18.05.2010) A delegation of pastoral peoples from Asia and Africa who visited Berlin on 18.05.2010 is demanding recognition and support from the German National Government for its role in conserving biological diversity in the International Year of Biological Diversity. It is calling for implementation of the rights that have been promised to pastoralists and pastoral peoples as the guardians of traditional knowledge and valuable genetic resources through the International Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).more
Christians and Muslims Quest for Peace
(Nairobi, 16.04.2010) PROCMURA has launched a report on conflict prevention and peace building in West Africa under the title “Christians and Muslims Quest for Peace”. It recovers the documentation of an international conference held in Accra, Ghana in July 2009.more
Sudan church leader says elections too flawed to be free and fair
(Nairobi, 14.04.2010) The general secretary of the Sudan Council of Churches - an Orthodox, Protestant and Roman Catholic grouping - has said that current national elections in Africa's biggest country do not qualify as free and fair. Sudan Council of Churches is a partner organisation of EED.more
CSR – Neither Magic Formula nor Charity
(Bonn, 10/03/2010) The quality of CSR in tourism needs to be debated.Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the form of voluntary CSR activities has been taken up by the mainstream tourism industry. More and more tourism enterprises pro-actively showcase their social commitment. Though this may be a welcome development, there is a need to debate the quality of voluntary measures.more
Nigeria: Violence destroys lives and displaces 10.000 people
(Bonn, 05.02.2010) EED mourns for the victims of the violent clashes in Jos and Bukuru after January 17, 2010. During the crisis, several lives were lost and houses burnt. Up to 10.000 people are displaced. The ethno-religious conflict in Nigeria roots in deep social and regional disparities. Violence came to an end on January 20, 2010. The Jos based Christian NGO CRUDAN advocates for continual peace dialogues among stakeholders.more
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