Tag: United Nations
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A world in debt: Reforming the multilateral financial architecture
According to data from UN Trade and Development, 3.3 billion people today live in countries where debt interest payments exceed spending on health and education. What can the multilateral system do to address the global debt crisis and ensure equitable access to finance? How can we reform the international financial architecture to ensure that developing…
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UN Praises Role of Cooperatives in Sustainable Development
United Nations officials are highlighting the role cooperative enterprises can play in economic development, social justice and environmental protection. In his message for International Day of Cooperatives, marked annually on 5 July, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that this year’s Day falls at a “critical time” with the UN working to reach the 2015 deadline for the…
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United Nations’ FAO Reaches Landmark Decision
This is great news! The Wall Street Journal’s Christopher Emsden announces a landmark decision reached by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization: …The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization Tuesday reached a deal giving extended support to co-operatives, a growing force in the global economy. The FAO’s memorandum of understanding is with the International…
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Cooperatives Responsible for 3% of GDP in New Zealand
Scoop Business Independent News reports on the contributions cooperatives make to New Zealand’s economy: Showing a combined annual revenue of $41,129,034,964 for the year 2011-12, the Top 40 cooperatives in New Zealand ranged from Fonterra Cooperative Group and Foodstuffs at the top through Southern Cross Healthcare Society and Mitre10 to Ashburton Trading Society, the Dairy Goat…
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Message from WIPO Director General, Francis Gurry, on the occasion of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
GENEVA – Indigenous Peoples’ traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) embody significant innovation and creativity and contribute to the diversity and richness of the planet’s civilizations and cultures. They also contribute to the cultural identity, sustainable development and social cohesion of Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and, globally, to the conservation of the…
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UN buys from Ethiopia’s farmer co-operatives to feed local, starving people
Anthony Murray in Co-operative News reports on a new pilot project to promote small farmers’ access to local markets. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) buys food from local co-operatives and distributes it to vulerable populations in Ethiopia. This year’s harvest will feed 1.8 million Ethiopians for a month: Farmer co-operatives around Ethiopia are set to deliver one…
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Malala Yousafzai Addresses United Nations
Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai addresses the United Nations as part of her campaign to ensure free compulsory education for every child. “I am here to speak up for the right of education of every child,” she said. She also invokes the names of Gandhi, Mother Theresa and Martin Luther King while advocating for peace and non-violence.…
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Mermaid Garden – Taking Seafood Transparency to New Level
Excerpted from an article by Amelia Pang, Epoch Times: NEW YORK—Consumers and chefs have the potential to alter the scientific facts that portend fish will be extinct from Earth by 2048. But in a world where, according to the United Nations, 30 percent of fish products are mislabeled, it becomes difficult for people to eat…
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Students Must Learn About Cooperative Business Models
June 9, 2013by: Kenny Bavoso Entrepreneurship is the main thing that is taught in business schools. A good business does not encourage being employed but generates a want among students to be their own boss. What most business schools fail to understand is that behavior is the key to entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial education should ultimately impart values,…
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