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The fifth edition of the Social Cooperatives International School #SCIS2019 comes to an end. Organized by CICOPA Italian member, Confcooperative

The social cooperative Mutamenti/Teatro Civico 14 is a theatre company founded in 2005 with the support of the municipality of

The Italian cooperative ParteNeapolis was created in Naples in 2000 through the European project “Impara l’Arte”, or “learn the art”

The ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work has published a report on how to achieve a decent and sustainable future of work for all. The Commission outlines in the report a vision for a human-centered agenda based on three pillars: people’s capabilities, institutions of work, and decent and sustainable work.

With this issue of Work Together, we want to present you with positive and sometimes heart-warming examples of cooperatives engaged in a noble and innovative battle to preserve pluralism, freedom of the press and independence, whilst assuring a democratic governance of their editorial boards.

As in many other countries, Canada’s print media are in the midst of challenging times. One of the few alternative publishers still operating is Saskatchewan’s Hullabaloo Publishing Workers Co-operative, which prints Regina’s prairie dog and Saskatoon’s Planet S Magazine, two papers that come out every other week.

Médor is a quarterly Belgian and cooperative investigative and news report magazine. It was first published in 2015 and has already received a large number of awards in recognition of the quality of its content and economic and social model. We interviewed one of the founders of Médor, Tiffany Lasserre, to get a better understanding of the advantages of the cooperative model in this highly particular and difficult sector, namely that of the journalistic press.

The first international standard on the statistics of cooperatives was adopted by the 20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) on 18 October. CICOPA has been strongly involved in the process together with the ICA.

CICOPA was in Teheran in November 2018 for the ICA Asia Pacific Regional Assembly as well as the 10th Co-operative Forum. On that occasion, CICOPA co-organised a development meeting and workshop on industrial and service cooperatives in Asia Pacific region.

In the framework of the project with the Singapore government, CICOPA organized a field research and a seminar during the week of 19-23 November, in Singapore. Hyungsik Eum, CICOPA data analyst, together with two experts from our network, carried out interviews with various local stakeholders from the cooperative movement, social enterprises and governmental bodies.

In Argentina, freedom of expression is more than ever under threat. Abuse on free and plural press are no longer determined by typical authoritarian measures, such as the closure of newspapers and magazines, the presence of soldiers and assault cars in the printing presses, the withdrawal of certain paper issues from the market, and other forms of censorship experienced in the past. In fact, the government of President Mauricio Macri distinguishes the media between friends and enemies; functional and dysfunctional, “liberal” and “militant journalism.”