Africa Day 2024 – Getting rights right

On Saturday, 16 November, the annual Africa Day took place again! For 26 years, this has been the largest event about Africa in the Netherlands. A day full of workshops, debates, lectures, literature, films, music, a fashion show, and much more! Find out more about the event here!

Africa Day 2024 was all about the theme “Getting Rights Right” and aimed to shed light on movements on the African continent that defend human rights and democratic values. Challenges related to improving progressive and democratic values while being cautious of Western neocolonialism were one of the topics of discussion. African voices who advocate for human rights were central to Africa Day 2024.

At this year’s edition, we are excited to announce that FEPS hosted a series of fringe events on its own FEPS global stage! These sessions focused on:

• CSDDD: addressing complexities and potential for workers rights in global supply chains 
• Implementing Feminist Foreign Policy in fragile and conflict affected settings
• An injury to one is an injury to all!: Social justice from an African trade union perspective
• Boosting the social impact of European Union development cooperation in Africa through the Inequality Marker

FEPS also organised a FEPS-led session on Seizing multilateral reform momentum for African countries: Enhancing their role and advancing the 2030 Agenda on the Africa Day main stage.

For additional information, please contact us at info@afrikadag.nl or Thainá Leite, Project Management Coordinator, at thaina.leite@feps-europe.eu.