News, stories and statements on cooperatives
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IT for Change hosts a webinar on the potential of cooperatives as a means to organize workers in the platform economy
29 July 2020
IT for Change organized a session “Going co-op: A platform model for workers in the South” as part of RightsCon, an annual summit bringing together multidisciplinary actors from technologists, business leaders, and activists to journalists, and academics from all around the world to tackle the most pressing issues of human rights and technology.
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ILO COOP 100 Interview
Dr Sonja Novkovic, the Chair of the ICA Committee on Cooperative Research and a Professor at Saint Mary’s University in Canada
29 July 2020
Established in March 1920, the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit marks its Centenary in 2020. On this occasion, the ILO COOP 100 Interview series features past and present ILO colleagues and key partners who were closely engaged in the ILO's work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE). The interviews reflect on their experience and contributions in the past and shares their thoughts on the future of cooperatives and the SSE in a changing world of work.
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First training session “Social economy: tool for decent work creation and social inclusion” organized by ITC-ILO in cooperation with ILO and Euricse
28 July 2020
As part of “Dignità in campo” project, a distance learning course was organized to discuss the principles of the social and solidarity economy (SSE) and how they can be used as a tool to support decent work and foster social resilience and inclusion in two territories in Italy, Saluzzo and Syracuse.
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The second Social Economy Fair of Korea held in Daejeon this year
28 July 2020
The 2nd Social Economy Fair was held in Daejeon from July 5 to 7 as part of the Korea Social Economy week.
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The UN Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) held its 31st regular meeting on July 21, 2020
23 July 2020
On 21 July 2020, the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on the Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) organized its 31st regular meeting since the establishment of the Task Force in 2013.
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ILO COOP/SSE participated and presented on implications of COVID-19 pandemic on gender equality within the cooperative movement
23 July 2020
Organized by the International Cooperative Alliance- Africa Regional Office and We Effect Regional Office for East Africa, the webinar brought together cooperative leaders from Asia and Africa regions as speakers reflecting on key challenges to gender equality around the pandemic and response strategies by cooperatives.
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COPAC organizes an International Day of Cooperatives event on cooperatives and climate action
22 July 2020
ILO’s Enterprises Department Director and Chair of the Committee on Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC), Mr van Vuuren, participated as a speaker in a virtual event organized on the occasion of the International Day of Cooperatives focusing on climate action on 9 July 2020.
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ILO COOP 100 Interview
Mr Alexandre Soho, ILO Senior Technical Officer on agriculture and rural economy in the Fundamentals Branch of the ILO
22 July 2020
Established in March 1920, the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit marks its Centenary in 2020. On this occasion, the ILO COOP 100 Interview series features past and present ILO colleagues and key partners who were closely engaged in the ILO's work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE). The interviews reflect on their experience and contributions in the past and shares their thoughts on the future of cooperatives and the SSE in a changing world of work.
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ILO COOP/SSE contributes a video message to a side event at the HLPF organized by the ICA on resilience of cooperatives in times of crisis
21 July 2020
ILO’s Cooperatives, Social and Solidarity Economy Unit Manager, Ms Simel Esim, contributed a video message to a virtual side-event organized by the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) at the High Level Political Forum on 16 July 2020.
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The UNTFSSE virtual event: “What role for the Social and Solidarity Economy in the post COVID-19 crisis recovery?”
14 July 2020
Speakers from UNTFSSE member organizations reflected on roles of the social and solidarity economy (SSE) in a “better recovery” from COVID-19.