<span style="color: #222222;">Today is the International Day of Cooperatives. This year the day is being celebrated under the theme of 'Rebuild better together'. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The UN in a statement said that more than one billion cooperative members worldwide continue to prove that no one needs to face a crisis like the pandemic on their own.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The day is an occasion to spread the word about human-centred business models.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">These are sustained by the cooperative values of self-help and solidarity and the ethical values of social responsibility and concern for community.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Such models can reduce inequality, create shared prosperity and respond to the immediate impacts of COVID-19, the statement added.</span><br />''  <br />