News, stories and statements on cooperatives
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Cooperatives
Myanmar: ILO pilots self-learning approach to promote the cooperative business model
15 November 2017
ILO conducted the first Myanmar pilot of the Think.Coop training module on cooperative business, where over 40 participants from trade unions, including farmers, were provided with a basic introduction to cooperation and collective action.
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Decent work
How decent work can transform cotton production
03 November 2017
South-South Project uses good practices in Brazil to promote decent work in cotton production in African and Latin American countries.
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Our impact, Their voices
Free from debt and bonded labour in Sri Lanka’s fisheries
01 November 2017
ILO's project helps free fishermen from debt bondage and supports livelihoods.
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News
The ILO participates in the 4th World Forum on Local Economic Development to discuss roles of SSE in achieving SDGs at local level
31 October 2017
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News
ILO COOP eNewsUpdate No. 9, October 2017
31 October 2017
This latest issue of the ILO COOP Newsletter highlights a number of recent events and developments on cooperatives.
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Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators
Rokin Labour Banks: Financial cooperatives for workers in Japan
31 October 2017
"Spotlight Interviews with Cooperators" is a series of interviews with cooperative leaders from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work with cooperatives. For this issue ILO interviewed Mr Toshihiro Akahori, Deputy General Manager, Planning and International Department of National Association of Labour Banks (NALB) in Japan. Prior to joining NALB in 2015, he worked at Shizuoka Rokin Labour Bank in Shizuoka Prefecture from 1997 to 2015.
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News
National gathering of cooperation in Japan toward sustainable future
27 October 2017
Japan’s National Gathering of Cooperation brought together close to 1000 participants to share good practices of cooperation toward building a sustainable society.
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News
Looking at the past and the future of My.Coop
23 October 2017
On 13 October, 2017 Agriterra, ITC-ILO and the Cooperatives Unit of the ILO met in Geneva to discuss the findings of a stocktaking study on My.Coop training package for agricultural cooperatives, with a view to enable more cooperatives to benefit from its use.
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News
Trade unions and producer organizations join forces to tackle child labour in agriculture
20 October 2017
In September 2017 over 20 representatives of rural workers’ trade unions, national trade union centres, and small producers’ organizations, including cooperatives, from 13 countries in Africa convened in Ghana. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss ways in which child labour can be sustainably eradicated in agriculture and rural economy at large in line with the Sustainable Development Goal indicator 8.7 on ending child labour in all its forms.
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News
G7 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Declaration refers to cooperatives
20 October 2017