Solidar

SOLIDAR is a European network of NGOs working to advance social justice in Europe and worldwide. SOLIDAR voices the concerns of its member organisations to the EU and international institutions across the policy sectors of social affairs, international cooperation, and lifelong learning.

SOLIDAR has 60 member organisations based in 27 countries (22 of which are EU countries), and is active in 90 countries worldwide. Member organisations are national NGOs in Europe, as well as some non-EU and EU-wide organisations, working in one or more relevant fields. The network is brought together by its shared values of solidarity, social equality, and participation.

SOLIDAR works in cooperation with its members, trade unions, political institutions, and civil society actors. SOLIDAR aims to influence policy at the EU and international levels, and link members together to learn from each other and help them carry out projects. The organisation is affiliated with the Progressive Alliance.[1]

In 2015, there are 34 full member organisations in the SOLIDAR network
  • Arbetarnas Bildningsförbund (ABF), Sweden
  • Association Européenne des Droits de l’Homme (AEDH), EU
  • Arbejdernes Oplysningsforbund (AOF DK), Denmark
  • Studieforbundet AOF (AOF NO), Norway
  • Alianza por la Solidaridad (APS), Spain
  • Associazione di Promozione Sociale (ARCI), Italy
  • Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB), Germany
  • Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASBÖ), Austria
  • Auser, Italy
  • Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO), Germany
  • Arbeiterwohlfahrt International (AWO INTL), Germany
  • Berufsförderungsinstitut Oberösterreich (BFI OÖ), Austria
  • Centres d’Entraînement aux Méthodes d’Education Active (CEMEA), France
  • International Cooperation Network (CGIL), Italy
  • Community Service Volunteers (CSV), United Kingdom
  • Féderation Européenne de l’Education et la Culture (FEEC), France
  • Fagligt Internationalt Center (FIC), Denmark
  • Fonds voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking - Socialistische Solidariteit (FOS), Belgium
  • General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), UK
  • Humanitas, The Netherlands
  • International Federation of Workers’ Education Associations (IFWEA), South Africa
  • Instituto Sindical de Cooperacion al Desarrollo (ISCOD), Spain
  • Instituto Sindacale di Cooperazione allo Sviluppo (ISCOS), Italy
  • International Solidarity Foundation (ISF), Finland
  • La Liga Española de la Educación y la Cultura Popular (La Liga Española), Spain
  • La Ligue de l’Enseignement (La Ligue), France
  • Movimiento por la Paz, el Desarme y la Libertad (MPDL), Spain
  • Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), Norway
  • Olof Palme International Center (OPIC), Sweden
  • Solidar Suisse - Schweizerisches Arbeiterhilfswerk (SAH), Switzerland
Solidar Suisse (until 2011 Swiss Workers' Relief Organization SAH) is a Swiss nonprofit organization committed to fair labor and democratic participation worldwide. Solidar has more than 50 projects in 14 countries. In Switzerland, the relief organization runs awareness-raising campaigns. It has 180 employees.[2]
Solidar Suisse featured Habte Araya[3] in a 2017 advertising flyer to promote integration.[4] Araya went on to push a 78-year old woman, and an unrelated 40-year old mother and her 8-year old son in front of a train at Frankfurt Central Station in 2019. The mother and child were run over by the train; the mother survived.[5] Araya threatened a neighbor with a knife.[6]
  • Solidarité Laïque, France
  • Työväen Sivistysliitto - Worker’s Educational Association (TSL), Finland
  • Volkshilfe Österreich Bundesverband (VH), Austria
  • Workers’ Educational Association (WEA), UK

In 2015, there are 24 affiliate member organisations in the SOLIDAR network
  • Asociaţia pentru Dezvoltarea Organizaţiei (Ado Sah Rom), Romania
  • Asociácia odborných pracovníkov sociálnych služieb (AOPSS), Slovakia
  • Assamblea de Cooperacion por la Paz (ACPP), Spain
  • Baltic Platform, comprising:
-Johannes Mihkelsoni Keskus (JMK), Estonia;
-Latvian Trade Union of Education and Science Employees (LIZDA), Latvia;
-Lithuanian Labour Education Society (LLES), Lithuania
  • Czech Council on Foreign Relations - Rada Pro Mezinarodni Vztahy (CCFR), Czech Republic
  • Coordinamento delle Organizzazioni non governative per la Cooperazione Internazionale alla Sviluppo (COCIS), Italy
  • DGB-Bildungswerk (DGB BW), Germany
  • Forum Solidarni Dla Postepu, Poland
  • Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), Belgium
  • Initiative for Development and Cooperation (IDC), Serbia
  • Institute for Social Integration (ISI), Bulgaria
  • Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade (ISQ), Portugal
  • Institut für Sozialarbeit und Sozialpädagogik (ISS), Germany
  • International Union of Tenants (IUT)
  • Narodna Dopomoha (People’s Aid), Ukraine
  • Pour la Solidarité (PLS), Belgium
  • Samaritan International (SAMI)
  • Solidarité Socialiste (SolSoc), Belgium
  • Solidarité Syndicale (OGBL), Luxembourg
  • Solidarity Overseas Service (SOS), Malta
  • Union Aid Abroad (APHEDA), Australia
  • Volkshilfe Hellas, Greece

References
  1. http://progressive-alliance.info/2810-2/
  2. http://www.cinfo.ch/de/solidar-suisse
  3. Kate Connolly (31 July 2019). "Far-right AfD criticised for exploiting death of boy at Frankfurt station". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 August 2019. Habte Araya, was an Eritrean on the run from police in neighbouring Switzerland
  4. https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/31/man-pushed-boy-8-train-used-campaign-promote-integration-10494467/
  5. Karen Van Eyken (31 July 2019). "Sister (12) did not want to go with the train and wanted a car ride. Later she learned that her brother (8) had been pushed under the train: "Her world has collapsed"". Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). Retrieved 1 August 2019. But then Habte Araya (40) walks onto the platform. Out of nowhere, the man from Eritrea pushes mother and son onto the tracks just as the high-speed train enters the station. He tries to do the same with a 78-year-old woman, but fails because she can defend herself and falls on the platform.
  6. "Warum flüchtete der Kindermörder von Gleis 7 aus Eritrea?". Bild (in German). 3 August 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019. Araya lived with his wife and three small children in a village near Zurich [...] he would have locked up his family at home and threatened the neighbor with a knife
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