Report of the ICA Regional consultation meeting on gender integration in cooperatives, Bangkok, Thailand

Abstract

In 1995, at the occasion of the ICA Congress in Manchester, United Kingdom, the Cooperative Principles were revised and the Congress adopted the Statement on the New Cooperative Identity. The New Co-operative Principles indicate that Co-operatives should be open to all persons “without gender, social, racial, political or religious discrimination”. This was the first time that the word “gender” has been included in the co-operative principles. The Regional Consultation Meeting on Gender Integration in Co-operatives held in Bangkok, Thailand from 17 to 20 September, 1996 was organized by the International Co-operative Alliance Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ICA ROAP) in kind collaboration with the Co-operative League of Thailand.