Video and audio stories

2011

1. Green Business Option, Green Jobs Initiative Project in China

   30 September 2011

   A film on the Green Business Option, Green Jobs Initiative project in China. It includes stories on: LED light to save energy at auniversity in Chengdu, Sichuan; recycling used clothes into handicraft, Chendu, Sichuan ; recycling used books at a university in Nanjing; and recycling musical instruments in Nanjing. February 2011, 13 minutes.

2. Exclusive breastfeeding in the workplace: Towards decent and productive work for all

   08 September 2011

   Provides a glimpse of an ILO initiative in the Philippines to promote exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) in the workplace under the MDG-F 2030 Joint Programme on Ensuring Food Security and Nutrition for Children 0-24 Months Old in the Philippines, funded by the Government of Spain. ILO, together with the government, workers and employers along with partners, aims to contribute in achieving the Millennium Development Goals on addressing extreme poverty, hunger (MDG 1) and child mortality rate (MDG4) through providing technical assistance in developing and setting up mechanisms that would enable working mothers to continue breastfeeding in the workplace even after giving birth and after their maternity leave.

3. Indonesia: Young Entrepreneurs

   20 August 2011

   The video highlights Start and Improve Your Business training programmes conducted under the ILO-EAST Project in Makassar, Kupang and Papua. The video captures the journey of young entrepreneurs in the three areas covered by the Project.

4. Timor-Leste: Deolinda's story

   01 August 2011

   The ILO and the Government of Timor-Leste, supported by the Australian Government - ILO Partnership Agreement, is helping young Timorese find decent, productive work. See how the Youth Employment Promotion Programme (YEP) helped one young woman, Deolinda, start her own business.

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   H.E. Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of the Republic of Indonesia, Addresses 100th International Labour Conference

   14 June 2011

   The President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has called for a global coalition to tackle youth employment in an address to a special session of the 100th International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva. The President called on delegates to work together to prevent increasing unemployment among young people, saying this would be critical to creating a new era of social justice.

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   Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Appeals to the ILO to Expand its Activities in Myanmar

   13 June 2011

   Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the former General Secretary of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar, spoke via video message to the delegates of the 100th International Labour Conference of the ILO. She expressed her hope that the ILO would expand its activities in Myanmar and help usher in an era of social justice. The International Labour Organization's current activities in Myanmar include efforts to ensure the elimination of forced labour.

7. The Workplace: Gateway to universal access to HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care, and support

   01 June 2011

   HIV and AIDS is a workplace issue, and the workplace is a gateway for universal access to prevention, treatment, care, and support information and services. The ILO has well recognized these and advocates key principles to be adopted in workplace HIV and AIDS policies as espoused by ILO Recommendation 200.

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   Message from ILO Director-General Juan Somavia to the International Trade Union Confederation Asia and Pacific Region (ITUC AP)

   11 May 2011

   In his opening remarks to introduce the video message of the Director-General, Juan Somavia, the Director of ACTRAV expressed concern that the recent economic growth in some Asian countries has not been followed with improved living standards, benefits and respect for workers'rights.Several countries have not also ratified all of the core labour standards.

9. Q&A-Manuela Tomei

   22 April 2011

   Ms Manuela Tomei, Director of the ILO’s Conditions of Work and Employment Programme, explains how adopting an international labour standard on domestic work at the 100th ILC would help regulate what is most often an ‘unregulated’ and sometimes hazardous field of work.

10. Global Employment Trends 2011: An interview with Lawrence Jeff Johnson

    25 January 2011

    ABS-CBN News Channel’s Business Nightly interviewed Director Lawrence Jeff Johnson, ILO Country Office for the Philippines on the Global Employment Trends 2011 Report. With global unemployment, as officially measured, at record highs for the third straight year since the start of the economic crisis, the ILO warned that weak recovery in jobs is likely to continue in 2011, especially in developed economies.

11. SCORE - Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises in Indonesia (Part 2/2)

    10 January 2011

    Does increasing enterprise competitiveness come at the expense of better working conditions? The ILO's SCORE project in Indonesia demonstrates that the opposite is true: Enterprises trained by the project have become more productive and quality-oriented as working conditions have improved. For more information visit www.ilo.org/score.

12. SCORE - Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises in Indonesia (Part 1/2)

    10 January 2011

    Does increasing enterprise competitiveness come at the expense of better working conditions? The ILO's SCORE project in Indonesia demonstrates that the opposite is true: Enterprises trained by the project have become more productive and quality-oriented as working conditions have improved. For more information visit www.ilo.org/score.

2010

1. The Sisterhood of Group 51: microfinance brings decent work

   01 December 2010

   Tran Thi Dzung a member of the Group 51 in Phuc Yen Town, Vinh Phuc Province, joined the Tao Yao Mai, an ILO supported micro-insurance scheme which helps Viet Nam's Women Union in distributing their products. The scheme helps Dzung and other women who mostly belong to ethnic minority groups to improve their livelihood and earnings through micro-insurance. One of a series of the Decent Work Stories from Viet Nam.

2. The bamboo weavers of Ha Tinh: skills bring decent work

   01 December 2010

   A story about farmers in My Loc Commune, Can Loc District, Ha Tinh Province, who are forced to migrate for work. The ILO Community-based Training for Economic Empowerment (CB-TREE) programme created jobs and earnings by providing trainings in the production of bamboo baskets, honey, boat, and healthier plants fence, etc. The farmers can find new opportunities in the local community with their new learned skills. One of a series of the Decent Work Stories from Viet Nam.

3. Paint-WISE: safe work brings decent work

   01 December 2010

   A story about Cao Thi Quynh Huong, a mother with a small child, working at a paint factory in Viet Nam. A training under the Work Improvements in Small Enterprises (WISE) programme helps Quyn Huong and other workers in the factory to enjoy safer working conditions with simple but effective improvements. One of a series of the Decent Work Stories from Viet Nam.

4. Changing Climate: Changing Lives

   01 December 2010

   The video presents how climate change, which results in extreme weather events all over the world, is affecting those who depend on the weather for their livelihoods, including farmers in Southern Philippines. It shows how the ILO demonstration project is working with local stakeholders to develop innovative financing schemes to help vulnerable populations enhance their production and diversify their sources in order to better cope with climate change impacts. It also talks about supporting the development of an innovative insurance scheme based on weather index to further protect livelihoods of farmers.

5. Indonesia: The hidden diamond from the Baliem Valley

   10 November 2010

   The documentary portrays the success of the women of Wamena in Papua who actively contribute to their communities' economic livelihoods. It also shares the lessons learn on how the capacity building activities introduced by the programme strengthened entrepreneurship skills among partner community members, particularly women, to manage their enterprises effectively and generate greater and self employment opportunities.

6. Discrimination on the grounds of disability and HIV/AIDS

   01 October 2010

   A series of short advertisements promoting equal opportunities for persons with disabilities and HIV/AIDS. Available in both English and Thai.

7. Mr Mom, WEDGE, Cambodia

   31 August 2010

   A film on the ILO's Women Enterprise Development and Gender Equality Project in Takeo, Cambodia

8. Cambodia WEDGE, Kep Province

   31 August 2010

   A film on the ILO's Women Enterprise Development and Gender Equality Project in Kep Province, Cambodia