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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.
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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 [...]
ASEC is actively participating together with RIPESS Intercontinental in the ILO workshop on ‘SSE as a solution to advance the SDGs in Asia’.
ASEC - Asian Social Solidarity Economy, the Asian SSE Council participated in most of the activities of this workshop held in Bangkok on 18-19 June. Organised by the International Labour Organisation with the support of the ILO Cooperatives Unit, these two days aimed at reflecting, promoting, sharing and collectively building local roots to face the challenges in the region. SSE [...]