What is Social Solidarity Economy?
Today, perhaps as never before, more people are becoming aware that capitalism has turned our lives and our planet into a commodity. A system that is environmentally unsustainable and socially unjust, and that it is not able to guarantee the happiness and dignified life conditions of all persons in any place on the planet.
Social Solidarity Economy includes a wide range of practices that span economic, social, environmental, political, communitarian or holistic dimensions.
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RIPESS contributes to Hunter College’s Human Rights Seminar linking the SSE and the UNDROP
International Human Rights – The Rights of Peasants and Rural People 22 September 2026 · 5:30–8:15 PM Roosevelt House, Hunter College, New York City As part of RIPESS’ agenda in New York during the week of 21–26 September, Sandra Moreno Cadena, Executive Secretary of RIPESS Intercontinental, will participate in the International Human Rights seminar at Hunter College’s Department of Anthropology. [...]
RIPESS joins the discussion on the UN Secretary-General’s report and the Ministerial Dialogue of the Group of Friends on SSE
On 25 September 2026, RIPESS Intercontinental will take part in the high-level meeting “Advancing the Social and Solidarity Economy”, organised by the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Economy and the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE). The session will take place from 12:00 to 14:15 at the Instituto Cervantes in New York, coinciding with [...]
RIPESS Co‑organizes Movement-Led Gathering on the Social and Solidarity Economy during UNGA Week and Climate Week NYC
Connections: advancing the global social solidarity economy agenda in New York24 September 2026 · 09:00–11:30 CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, New York City Register TODAY RIPESS Intercontinental, together with the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and the US Solidarity Economy Network (USSEN), will co‑organize a movement‑led gathering on 24 September 2026 during the UN General Assembly and [...]
What is RIPESS?
RIPESS is a global network of continental networks committed to the promotion of Social Solidarity Economy. The member networks themselves (Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania) bring together national and sectorial networks, thus ensuring strong territorial anchoring.
The combined local and global scope gives RIPESS legitimacy to promote SSE, foster intercontinental cooperation, and advocate at different levels. RIPESS members believe in the importance of the globalisation of solidarity, and the ability to build and strengthen an economy that places people and planet at the centre of its activities.
