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Cooperatives play a valuable role in social development as well as in fostering peace-building among peoples, communities and nations. Like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) themselves, cooperatives are people-centred. Owned and run by their members, cooperatives are strongly committed to the communities they serve. Further work in creating an enabling environment for cooperatives to thrive and grow is needed to ensure cooperatives can make significant contributions to the SDGs on employment, poverty, hunger, and equality.
Watch our interviews at the 2016 International Day of Cooperatives (IDC2016) with:
- Ms. Monique Leroux, President, International Co-operative Alliance (ICA)
- Mr. Vinicius Pinheiro, Director and Special Representative of the ILO to the UN in New York
- Ms. Carla Mucavi, Director of FAO Liaison Office in New York
For more information on the work of the United Nations on Cooperatives, please visit social.un.org/cooperatives
To learn more about the IDC2016, please visit: http://bit.ly/UN-IDC2016