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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Adoption of the UN Resolution: Promoting the social and solidarity economy for sustainable development
RIPESS’ contribution to the long road to success. Yvon Poirier // 18 april 2023 Today’s adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of resolution A/RES/77/281 is a very significant achievement for our movement that has promoted SSE as an important paradigm change to help humanity to move towards genuinely sustainable development that leaves no one behind, the rallying cry of [...]
Ripess rallies support ahead of imminent ratification of Resolution by ESS
Tomorrow, April 18, will be the day when the resolution in support of the Social Solidarity Economy that Ripess has been working on for so long will finally be ratified. You can follow the assembly here from 10am NYC here. From the international secretariat, and with the help and support of the continental networks, we have sent a series of [...]
For a feminist and feminine Social Solidarity Economy.
After celebrating our 25th anniversary thanks to so many women around the world struggling every day to carry out their projects, innovating and creating different ways of inhabiting and co-inhabiting the planet, last Women's Day, March 8th, and throughout this month, we wanted to highlight and celebrate them around the world and the SSE. The steps taken in this quarter [...]
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.
