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Stand up for (y)our rights

Stand up for (y)our rights

Article by Georgia Bekridaki, Dock, Greece - In recent years in Europe there has been a growing trend of violations of basic human, social and political rights. The repeated economic crises…

SSE gains ground worldwide

A historic step : UN adopts SSE resolution

By the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on SSE - At its 66th plenary meeting on April 18, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution “Promoting the Social and Solidarity Economy…

Special Issue on social and human Rights

Defend the water as a public and social good (Greece)

Article by Georgia Bekridaki, Dock, Greece - Many efforts have been made during the years while Greece has been under close surveillance by the EU and the period of memoranda for…

Threats to the right to protest

Article by Josette Combes, Ripess Europe - Everywhere, including in so-called democratic countries, demonstrating opposition to the ruling powers becomes dangerous. We won’t insist on the terrible arrests followed by torture…

Habibi.Works (Greece) : Implementing self aid

Article by Georgia Bekridaki, Dock, Greece - Habibi.Works is an intercultural makerspace and a platform for empowerment for refugees and Greek locals. The community around Habibi follows the values of respect…

Women’s Strike in Poland

By Monika Onyszkiewicz, FairTrade Polska - Although it is difficult to imagine, but in the 21st century Poland, part of the European Union, does not provide basic reproductive rights for its…

UN: Cultural rights and climate change

This article was composed by quoting excerpts from the August 2020 UN Report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Karima Bennoune While an accurate inventory has…

Agua Para Todos tackles water privatization and the impact of climate change

Article from Transformative Cities, 2020 - In the case presented here as part of Transformative Cities’ collection of initiatives from around the world, pressure from external demand for avocados has turned…

Respecting the rights of persons with disabilities

Summary of the article Disability: France pinned by the Council of Europe for its many shortcomings Julien Lecot, InfoJModerne, 17 April 2023 “In a decision made public on Monday 17…

The European Housing Action Days : 10 days, 120 actions in over 60 cities!

Article from the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and to the City - The European housing movements took back the streets. The Housing Action Days 2023 were the…

A food Social security?

Jean Ziegler defines the right to food as that of “to have regular, permanent and free access, either directly or through monetary purchases, to food quantitatively and qualitatively adequate and…

News from the networks

10 Theses Towards Transformative Community-Led Local Development Policies

By Ecolise - A consultation was led in 2022, continuing now in 2023, for the ECOLISE’s policy flagship project, the 10 theses towards transformative community-led local development policies. The idea is…

Improvements in the new Social Economy Law (Spain)

Salto Diario article, by REAS, red de redes - Before the approval by the Council of Ministers of the new Integral Law of the Social Economy and the Spanish Strategy of…

The Mediterranean Caravan visits Dražen and Alen’s eco-social community

Article by Jocelyn Parrot, Urgenci (Photographs by ZMag) - Our eighth episode of the Mediterranean Caravan Podcast is now live on Anchor and Spotify. Join us to discover the “Recycled Estate”…

Cooperative projects

YITEG: New project about Transformative Economies, youth and game design

By Andrea Rodriguez, Ripess Europe (Image by Beehive community) - The YITEG project –Youth Impacting Transformative Economies through Game-design– aims to initiate a participatory and empowering process oriented to action-learning in…

Territorial cooperation, culture and SSE: manifesto, recipes and key skills

By the project partners - COOPTERR FINAL BOOKLET NOW ONLINE This booklet is a presentation of our different findings and exchanges as a consortium. Each part can be read independently. The…

Save The Date !

[DEVISUS Erasmus + project] Meeting around social utility and social impact in Brussels (Belgium) on 13/06

REGISTRATION OPEN for the European Ecovillage Gathering - 12 to 17 July, Germany

3rd International Conference SSE and the Commons: Enacting the “Pluriverse” - Deadline May 31st 2023

What's happening on Socioeco.org in May ?

Solidarity Economy and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Article by Françoise Wautiez, socioeco.org - Reas, Red de Redes has published in December 2022 a document called: 50 Good Practices and successful actions of SSE initiatives in their contribution to…

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