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Cooperatives are not simply economical enterprises but almighty vehicles for societal justness and resilience, said Nandini Azad, president of the Working Women’s Forum – Indian Cooperative Network for Women (WWF–ICNW), present connected Friday.
Ms. Azad participated successful a high-level dialog astatine the Natesan Institute of Cooperative Management (NICM), organised arsenic portion of the ongoing celebrations of the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives 2025.
According to a property release, the event, held nether the taxable ‘Cooperatives Build a Better World’, focused connected the captious and interconnected challenges of clime change, the pervasive contented of sex violence, and the way toward a gender-responsive UNFCCC COP30, which is scheduled to beryllium held successful Brazil successful November this year.
Addressing the event, Ms. Azad said, “For millions of mediocre women we service successful the informal sector, clime alteration is not an abstract concept; it is simply a regular menace to their livelihoods, health, and safety.”
As climate-induced disasters intensify, truthful does the hazard of sex unit and displacement.
The cooperative model, with its principles of antiauthoritarian power and assemblage concern, offers a tangible, scalable model for gender-just clime adaptation and mitigation, she added.
