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United Nations News Centre - Remarks on violence against women and girls :
Ban Ki-moon speaks at high-level side event of the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
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Learning how to make decisions together is a crucial element of getting along and getting things done with others. It’s wise for your group to learn how to steer your boat together with collective decision-making before you have a sinking ship on your hands. I’ve learned these skills through workshops, readings and from living and working in cooperatives and they have been incredibly valuable to the success of these projects.
Collective decision-making has innumerable ...
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Second global Summit for co-operators to take place in 2014 | ICA: International Co-operative Alliance:
Following the success of last year’s International Summit of ...
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CO-OP Shared Branching Reaches 5,000 Branch Locations Nationwide:
The number of credit union “live teller” branch locations available through the nationwide CO-OP Shared ...
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Read and share the Message from ICA President, Dame Pauline Green, in English, French and Spanish.
Read and share the Message from María Eugenia Pérez Zea the ICA’s Gender ...
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The Commission on the Status of Women is holding its 57th session from 4-15 March 2013, and the ICA’s Gender Equality Committee Chair María Eugenia Pérez Zea submitted a ...
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My teaching career to date spans some forty eight years and during most of this time change has been in the air in one form or another – sometimes it has been structural as with ...
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Canada's co-operative movement is on the rise | rabble.ca:
“Upon returning to the United States, one of the primary lessons I brought home was how the Canadian co-op movement ...
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IOWA CITY, IA (February 26, 2013) – Seven and a half years ago on behalf of its retail co-ops, National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) elected to become a plaintiff in a class action suit alleging unfair practices by credit card and debit card issuers, including charging billions in noncompetitive "swipe" or "interchange" fees to retailers across the country. NCGA was joined in this litigation by eighteen other organizations, including five other national trade associations. ...
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IOWA CITY, IA (February 28, 2013) – On behalf of our 134 retail co-ops and their 1.3 million shoppers and owners, National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) has long worked to fight the deregulation of GMOs at the regulatory and legal level. NCGA is a founding member of the National Organic Coalition and a partner in the Just Label It campaign, which calls for mandatory labeling of GMOs.
Now, NCGA is calling upon manufacturers to support consumers' right to information to ...
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