Video and audio stories

2009 

• Prime Minister of Bangladesh speaks at Global Jobs Summit - [mp3 301 KB] - Duration: 00:00:38 (322KB)
  17 June 2009 - Speaking by video address to the Global Jobs Summit at the 98th International Labour Conference (ILC), the Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh shared her concerns with other world leaders about the on-going crises in financial and jobs markets. ...
• Indian employers’ delegate at Global Jobs Summit calls for effective international regulatory consensus - [mp3 314 KB] - Duration: 00:00:39 (322KB)
  16 June 2009 - A leading Indian businessman said in order to tackle the global jobs crisis and coordinate development cooperation, the world would need to work together to arrive at regulatory consensus. Mr Yogendra Kr. ...
• Barefoot solar engineers - [mp3 5120 KB] - Duration: 00:05:28 (5.1 MB)
  03 June 2009 - Everyone's affected by climate change, but women are increasingly being seen as more vulnerable than men because they represent the majority of the world's poor and are proportionally more dependent on threatened natural resources. ...
• India’s female taxi drivers - [mp3 4656 KB] - Duration: 00:04:53 (4.6 MB)
  03 June 2009 - For millions of women going out to work is a necessary. But earning a living can be a dangerous business if you are poor and female, and live in India. Many jobs carry a very high risk of accidents, sickness or assault. ...
• India's poorest workers get organized (SEWA) - [mp3 5904 KB] - Duration: 00:06:17 (5.9 MB)
  03 June 2009 - Hundreds of millions of women worldwide work in the so-called informal sector (e.g. a job without regular income and benefits). Many women are trapped in this sector because they lack education, skills, or have other commitments which prevent full-time or regular work. ...
• A Better World Starts Here: Be Part of It -
  22 April 2009 - This short (one minute) public service announcement focuses on the important role of Decent Work in building stronger, fairer societies in Asia and the Pacific. It was created to mark the ILO's 90th anniversary.
• Community Infrastructure Development in Battambang 2007 -
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2008 

• Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus and ILO Director-General Juan Somavia address the press during Microfinance Forum - - Duration: 00:04:54 (13.9 MB)
  02 October 2008 - The founder of Grameen Bank and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, Mr. Muhammad Yunus, joined Mr. Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Office, Jean Zwahlen, Chairman of the World Microfinance Forum Geneva, and Ivan Pictet, Chairman of the Geneva Financial Centre, at a press conference at the first symposium of the World Microfinance Forum Geneva taking place this week.
• Protecting the rights of indigenous peoples in Nepal - - Duration: 00:22:25 (17.6 MB)
  06 August 2008 - There are over fifty recognized groups of indigenous peoples in Nepal, who comprise about 40 per cent of the total population. They include the Bote people whose traditional way of life has been threatened ever since the lands where they lived and fished were turned into the Chitwan National Park and it was made illegal for them to enter. Nepal's ratification of the ILO Convention No. ...
• Creating Change - Responding to the HIV epidemic at work - - Duration: 00:27:57 (81 MB)
  24 July 2008 - 'Creating change' features success stories in addressing HIV/AIDS in the workplace with a special focus on behaviour change programmes. It highlights the key role of ministries of Labour, employers' and workers' organizations in creating an enabling environment by strengthening the national policy and legal framework to address stigma and discrimination, and support workplace interventions.
• Protecting Maternity in Cambodia’s Textile Factories - - Duration: 00:03:33 (10.4 MB)
  14 July 2008 - Many women in Cambodia risk losing their jobs when they become pregnant. But most textile factories monitored by the ILO’s Better Factories Cambodia programme now offer maternity protection to their employees. For Ros Kimsreng, she now has the opportunity of keeping a good job and providing for her family’s future.
• Japanese journalist wins first ITC-ILO Journalistic Prize - - Duration: 00:04:31 (13.2 MB)
  04 June 2008 - Misako Hida, a journalist based in New York, accepted a prize today for her news article: "The Land of Karoshi". The prize was awarded by the International Training Center and the International Labour Organization to recognize the best story on labour rights. "Karoshi" is a Japanese term meaning "death from overwork". ...
• A Banker for Sri Lankan Women: Rupa Manel Silva - - Duration: 00:02:37 (8 MB)
  02 April 2008 - A new report from the International Labour Organization shows that economic empowerment for women is vital for equal participation of women and men in the labour market and equal access to obtaining decent work. In Sri Lanka, Rupa Manel Silva is leading the way with a bank run by women for women.
• Global economic turbulence to spur unemployment increase, says new ILO report - - Duration: 00:03:26 (5.29 MB)
  24 January 2008 - The new ILO Global Employment Trends 2008 report says market turmoil, rising oil prices and credit uncertainty could leave 5 million more unemployed this year.

2007 

• East Asia is the growth productivity story of the decade, according to new figures from the Key Indicators of the Labour Market, released this week at a press conference in Geneva - - Duration: 00:02:20 (5.98 MB)
  03 September 2007 - East Asia showed some of the fastest labour productivity growth rates in economic history, according to Jose Manuel Salazar, Executive Director of the ILO Employment Sector, speaking at a press conference for the launch of the 5th edition of the Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM).
• H.E. Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, addresses the 96th International Labour Conference - - Duration: 00:03:26 (5.99 MB)
  15 June 2007 - On the closing day of the International Labour Conference, the President of Sri Lanka stressed the need for political objectives in his country to be achieved "through negotiation and dialogue".
• Informal economy work sees more working hours for men, less for women - - Duration: 00:02:34 (4.51MB)
  08 June 2007 - A new report from the ILO says that one in five workers worldwide work excessively long hours, up to 48 a week, often to merely make ends meet. The study also says women work shorter hours than men, most likely because they bear the brunt of responsibility for the unpaid work of taking care of the family and household.
• Afghanistan: Women Entrepreneurs - - Duration: 00:02:12 (3.50 MB)
  26 March 2007 - More than two decades of conflict have crippled Afghanistan’s economy. But some Afghan women are taking their handicraft skills to the market and playing an active role in the country’s reconstruction and development as ILO TV reports:
• Rebuilding Baphuon Temple in Angkor, Cambodia - - Duration: 00:02:04 (3.7 MB)
  05 February 2007 - Tourists will soon be able to visit one of Angkor’s greatest treasures: the 11th century Baphuon temple. Now the temple is the centre of a huge archaeological reconstruction effort. Safety training means today’s Khmer construction workers are reclaiming this piece of their heritage without the dangers their ancestors faced.

2006 

• The sweet taste of success - - Duration: 00:02:05 (3.6 MB)
  19 October 2006 - Out of the destruction and tragedy of the December 2004 Tsunami, people like Asriana have overcome grief and financial ruin to start life anew. A business training course run by the ILO in Banda Aceh, has helped Asriana develop her business skills and turn a donut-making enterprise into a success.