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ILO COOP 100 Webinar III - Cooperatives for Climate Action

06 July 2020

The webinar focused on climate action, the theme for this year’s International Day of Cooperatives. Four speakers presented on the role of cooperatives in climate change mitigation and adaptation and discussed ways to scale up efforts toward a greener and better future.

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How cooperatives can help Brazil’s waste pickers build back from COVID-19

03 July 2020

This year’s International Day of Cooperatives on 4 July will focus on climate action. Waste pickers’ cooperatives in Brazil are examples of how cooperatives can help combat climate change, while facing the challenges thrown up by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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ILO Director-General’s statement for the International Day of Cooperatives 2020

03 July 2020

The 2020 International Day of Cooperatives is marked on Saturday 4 July under the theme "Cooperatives for Climate Action" which is closely linked to SDG13. On this occasion ILO Director-General Guy Ryder has issued a statement.

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Cooperatives for Climate Action - International Day of Cooperatives 2020

02 July 2020

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ILO COOP eNewsUpdate Issue No. 6, June 2020

30 June 2020

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ILO COOP participates in Open Innovation Campus session on health cooperatives and the pandemic

29 June 2020

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The Tunisian Parliament adopts a bill on the social and solidarity economy

24 June 2020

The new law has been developed through a series of tripartite consultations with the support of the ILO to create an enabling environment for a more equitable and inclusive human-centred economic model in Tunisia.

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Co-operatives UK gives a special award for ILO COOP on the occasion of its Centenary

22 June 2020

The award recognizes the important role played by the ILO on cooperative development around the world since 1920.

ILO COOP 100 Interview

ILO Interview with Mr Manuel Marino, previous Regional Director for International Cooperatives Alliance (ICA) Americas, Cooperative and Social Economy consultant and President of PromoCoop

22 June 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 and UNTFSSE participate in a webinar on the co-construction of SSE public policies

19 June 2020

At the webinar organized by RIPESS, the Director of the ILO’s Enterprises Department and Chair of the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on the Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) presented key international initiatives that aim to facilitate the formulation of SSE public policies.