Who we are
The Asian Solidarity Economy Council is the Asian hub for enhancing the responsibilities of stakeholders in co-creating a compassionate, solidarity economy. It brings together 18 national and continental networks in 21 countries of Asia.
Phillipines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Hongkong SAR – China, Japan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka.
• Dew Crafts/ Bangladesh
• ASSEFA/ India
• Parinaama/ India
• NAFAN/ Nepal
• Fair Trade/ Nepal
• HOMENet/ Thailand
• HOMENet/ Philippines
• HOMENet/ Cambodia
• ASKA/ Philippines
• PAKISAMA/ Philippines
• Pacific Asia Resource Center/ Japan
• Hong Kong Baptist University/ Hong Kong
• University of Phillpines/ Philippines
• Yayasan Bina Swadaya/ Indonesia
• OA Organic Farm/ Malaysia
• APPGM-SDG/ Malaysia
• LEADS/ Sri Lanka
• Sarvodaya/ Sri Lanka
News from Asia—
And for you, what is care? First webinar of the year on care and Social Solidarity Economy
This webinar will be held on 29 January at 15h CET (21h Indonesia, 11h Chile, 9h Canada) and requires pre-registration here. The gender commission of RIPESS Intercontinental, which brings together women and gender non-conforming people from all RIPESS continental networks around the world, is organising this intergenerational dialogue on the weaving of care networks from solidarity economies together with RIPESS Europe. Recognition of the importance of [...]
Weapons of struggle eliminating violence against women: Social Solidarity Economy initiatives
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, #25N, RIPESS Intercontinental puts the spotlight on violence other than physical, psychological and obstetric violence that makes women that half of the population oppressed under the yoke of heteropatriarchy: economic violence. By economic violence we refer to those factors that perpetuate situations of inequality, hindering the development towards a [...]
ASSEFA celebrates the lives of 4 inspirational people in India with a series of lectures and workshops
ASSEFA, member of the Asian Solidarity Economy Council (ASEC) and thus RIPESS, is a Gandhian Organization working in Tamil Nadu that started with the blessings of Acharya Vinoba Bhave (Ghandi’s spiritual successor) in 1968 as the second phase of Bhoodan Movement, the ‘Bloodless Revolution’, a voluntary land reform movement started by Bhave in post-Independent India. ASSEFA has been working for [...]
