Video and audio stories

2010

1. Cambodia's women fight poverty with self-help

   18 August 2010

   Setting up a self-help group to give women access to loans and teach them financial management and how to start a business is helping to lift women, and their families, in Cambodia's Kep province out of poverty.

2. Role reversal in Cambodia lets women's businesses blossom

   18 August 2010

   An ILO project to combat poverty in Cambodia is taking an innovative approach. The Women's Entrepreneurship Development and Gender Equality (WEDGE) programme, has found that by introducing teaching on gender equality, so that couples rethink traditional roles, their courses on entrepreneurship, budgeting, saving and making better financial decisions have become much more effective.

3. Alternatives to Migration: Decent Jobs for Filipino Youth

   01 July 2010

   Alternatives to Migration: Decent Jobs for Filipino Youth, provides an overview of the employment and migration challenges of Filipino youth from ages 15-24 years old. It then presents solutions to the problems by explaining what the joint programme is all about and outlining the outcome and outputs. It also presents the United Nations Country Team participating agencies, the government implementing partners, and what the programme aims to achieve. The joint programme is funded by the Government of Spain through the Millennium Development Goal Achievement Fund.

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   Combatting Child Labour in Thailand

   30 June 2010

   In Thailand, the incidence of Thai children in child labour has been decreasing for several years. However the problem of child labour has not disappeared. Migrant children from neighbouring countries are now disproportionately found in child labour in various provinces of Thailand. A four year ILO-IPEC Project of Support for National Action to Combat Child Labour and its Worst Forms in Thailand has been addressing the underlying issues and promoting a variety of responses.

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   India: Ending the Stigma of HIV/AIDS for Construction Workers

   17 June 2010

   In India, construction is one of the fastest growing sectors engaging a large number of migrant workers from across the country. With little knowledge about HIV, and culturally and socially isolated in India’s big cities, migrant workers are especially vulnerable to HIV infection. Informal workers, including migrant workers, make up 93 per cent of India’s 400 million-plus workforce. How to tackle discrimination towards workers with HIV and help prevent the spread of HIV have become a national priority, with the adoption of a national policy on HIV/AIDS and the world of work.

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   India: Fighting Child Labour with School Lunches

   11 June 2010

   In the past 10 years, more than 30 million children have been taken out of child labour. But according to the ILO's Global Report, today an estimated 215 million children are still working, on the streets, in farm fields, in some of the worst and most hazardous forms of work. Integrated national policies to protect children, get them out of work and into school have made an impact, moving the international community closer to its goal of eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2016. One way forward can be found in India, and the world's largest school lunch program.

7. International Labour Conference (ILC) 2010: Interview with K.V. Subramaniam, Sathasivam, Minister of Human Resources, Malaysia

   02 June 2010

   Delegates to the International Labour Conference (ILC) were asked to give their views on the importance of decent work and the role of the Global Jobs Pact in ensuring that employment-friendly measures were incorporated into national responses to the global economic and jobs crisis.

8. International Labour Conference (ILC) 2010: Interview with Marianito Roque, Secretary, Department of Labor and Employment, Philippines

   02 June 2010

   Delegates to the International Labour Conference (ILC) were asked to give their views on the importance of decent work and the role of the Global Jobs Pact in ensuring that employment-friendly measures were incorporated into national responses to the global economic and jobs crisis.

9. International Labour Conference (ILC) 2010: Interview with Mark Maipakal, Minister, Ministry for Labour and Industrial Relations, Papua New Guinea (2 of 2)

   02 June 2010

   Delegates to the International Labour Conference (ILC) were asked to give their views on the importance of decent work and the role of the Global Jobs Pact in ensuring that employment-friendly measures were incorporated into national responses to the global economic and jobs crisis.

10. International Labour Conference (ILC) 2010: Interview with Mark Maipakal, Minister, Ministry for Labour and Industrial Relations, Papua New Guinea (1 of 2)

    02 June 2010

    Delegates to the International Labour Conference (ILC) were asked to give their views on the importance of decent work and the role of the Global Jobs Pact in ensuring that employment-friendly measures were incorporated into national responses to the global economic and jobs crisis.

11. International Labour Conference (ILC) 2010: Interview with Kim Yong Gan, Minister for Manpower, Singapore (2 of 2)

    02 June 2010

    Delegates to the International Labour Conference (ILC) were asked to give their views on the importance of decent work and the role of the Global Jobs Pact in ensuring that employment-friendly measures were incorporated into national responses to the global economic and jobs crisis.

12. International Labour Conference (ILC) 2010: Interview with Kim Yong Gan, Minister for Manpower, Singapore (1 of 2)

    02 June 2010

    Delegates to the International Labour Conference (ILC) were asked to give their views on the importance of decent work and the role of the Global Jobs Pact in ensuring that employment-friendly measures were incorporated into national responses to the global economic and jobs crisis.

13. International Labour Conference (ILC) 2010: Interview with Lionel Kaluat, Commissioner of Labour, Vanuatu

    02 June 2010

    Delegates to the International Labour Conference (ILC) were asked to give their views on the importance of decent work and the role of the Global Jobs Pact in ensuring that employment-friendly measures were incorporated into national responses to the global economic and jobs crisis.

14. International Labour Conference (ILC) 2010: interviews with officials

    01 June 2010

    Delegates to the International Labour Conference (ILC) were asked to give their views on the importance of decent work and the role of the Global Jobs Pact in ensuring that employment-friendly measures were incorporated into national responses to the global economic and jobs crisis.

15. Indonesia - Domestic Workers: Part 6 Working contract

    28 April 2010

    A fair contract, which understandable and agreed by both employer and domestic worker, is a fundamental aspect for protecting the rights of domestic workers as enjoyed by other groups of workers. Even though at the moment the existence of a working contract between domestic worker and employer sounds like an alien idea, this video shows us how some employers, including Indonesia entertainment stars such as Shanaz Haque and Farhan, can correctly emphasize the need of a working contract which will benefit not only a domestic worker but an employer as well.

16. Indonesia - Domestic Workers: Part 5 Health

    27 April 2010

    At the moment, there is no Government's health care program for domestic workers in Indonesia, and yet, it does not make Riris Sarumpaet, an employer, ignores the need of taking good care of the health condition of her domestic worker. This video shows us how in such situation, where domestic workers has no guarantee of their social security, the employers still need to pay attention to the health condition of their domestic workers as part of ways for respecting the employment relationship between the two.

17. Indonesia - Domestic Workers: Part 4 Working environment

    26 April 2010

    As other workers, a domestic workers need to work in a situation where they fully understand and enjoy the respect and fulfilment of their rights; a situation where their duty can be done properly without avoiding respect to their needs as human being. The implementation of a decent working hour, rest time, and other employment aspects would create a good working environment for both domestic worker and his/her employer.

18. Indonesia - Domestic Workers: Part 3 Overtime

    25 April 2010

    This video, through the characters of Mirdalena and Aliyah, gives the example of how an employer respects her domestic worker by providing her over time fee. The employer pays the overtime every time she needs her domestic workers' assistance longer than the regular working hours and on holidays. In the context of Indonesia, and in the absence of working hour regulation for domestic workers as it should be, this video has a message which in line with ILO's role for creating decent work for all with regard to overtime.

19. Indonesia - Domestic Workers: Part 2 Salary

    24 April 2010

    While other workers have different set of minimum wage standards for their income, there is no standard yet in Indonesia for the salary of domestic workers. In the meantime, it is heavily depend on the employer's generosity. In this circumstances, and as part of the campaign and program of the ILO for creating decent work for all, this video has a main message for the viewers: the work load and the need of the domestic workers and his/her family have to be considered wisely when setting up the salary level of the domestic worker.

20. Indonesia - Domestic Workers: Part 1 Myths

    23 April 2010

    In Indonesia, most households consider the relationship between domestic workers and employers as a non-employment relationship. If you ask them, many will answer that it is more as a "family relationship" rather than an employment-relationship. Without opposing the positive meaning of "family relationship", this video emphasizes that beyond the personal relationship and approach, however, domestic worker's rights as workers should be respected and protected as it is applies to others workers, as clearly promoted by Atiqah Hasiholan, an Indonesian young female rising movie star.