ILO TV: Our Workplace
A new TV program from the International Labour Organization
Our Workplace is a new web-based television program produced by the International Labour Organization’s Department of Communication featuring prominent figures in the world of work. In conversation with Zohreh Tabatabai, the ILO’s Director of Communication, the program illuminates the personalities behind the podiums and the policies, as well as the people in the field who are making a difference in improving our life at work.
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Our Workplace: Employment Crucial to Liberia's recovery, says Liberian Labour Minister - 
21 June 2007 - In this edition of Our Workplace, ILO Communications Director Zohreh Tabatabai meets with Samuel Woods, human rights lawyer and Minister of Labour in Liberia. When fourteen years of conflict came to an end in 2003, 85 per cent of the country's working people were unemployed or underemployed. A self-described "incurable optimist", Mr. ... -
Our Workplace: Interview with the Prime Minister of Jamaica, Portia Simpson Miller -
15 June 2007 - Portia Simpson Miller is the first woman Prime Minister of Jamaica. Zohreh Tabatabai talks to the former Labour Minister, a familiar face at past International Labour Conferences, about the challenges of protecting her country from a "human tsunami of frustration" and the inspiration she draws from being Jamaican. -
Our Workplace: Why do we work so much? ILO expert Jon Messenger talks about working time around the world -
08 June 2007 - Nearly a century after adopting its first international standard on working time, a new study by the International Labour Organization estimates that one in five workers around the world or over 600 million persons work more than 48 hours per week, often merely to make ends meet. ILO expert Jon Messenger tells us why some of us may be working too much. -
Our Workplace: A reality check on workers' rights and employment challenges in the Middle East -
01 June 2007 - Veteran Middle East diplomat Nada al Nashif was recently appointed ILO Regional Director for the Arab States. Zohreh Tabatabai talks to her about misconceptions about the region, employment challenges for Arab youth, surviving the 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad and her hope for the future of the Middle East.