Video News Releases

2005 

• BACK TO WORK IN BANDA ACEH -
  24 June 2005 - As well as countless lives, hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost in the Asian tsunami. Through an employment network and business start-up courses, the International Labour Organization is helping survivors get back to work.
• PERU: CHILD LABOUR IN GOLD MINES -
  23 June 2005 - In Peru, up to 50 000 children work as gold miners in small-scale mines, braving dangerous conditions and constantly at risk from accidents. In Santa Filomena, the International Labour Organization is working together with a local group to put an end to child labour.
• Child soldiers in Uganda -
  23 June 2005 - Stories of children who have been forced to serve as child soldiers in Uganda.
• UKRAINE: TRAFFICKING SURVIVORS -
  22 June 2005 - Human trafficking is big business, with profits of trafficking worldwide estimated at $32 billion by the International Labour Organization. Men and women are smuggled across borders and often fo rced to work against their will but as ILO TV reports from Ukraine, trafficking is rooted in unemployment and poverty.
• Kenya's job market -
  16 June 2005 - An ILO TV report about how employers are linking up with the informal economy in Kenya.
• US TOMATO PICKERS REACH HISTORIC AGREEMENT -
  25 May 2005 - A group of tomato pickers from Florida were put under the spotlight when they reached an historic agreement with Yum Brands, parent company of Taco Bell and the largest restaurant company in the world. A n International Labour Organization report explains how workers like these can sometimes become victims of forced labour exploitation.
• FORCED LABOUR IN PERUVIAN AMAZON -
  18 May 2005 - Illegal logging in the Peruvian rainforest generates millions of profits. But an ILO report found that more than 30 thousand workers, many of them indigenous people, are victims of forced labour, living in appalling conditions and often tricked into debt with their employers.
• UGANDA CHILD SOLDIERS -
  17 May 2005 - A report on forced labour from the International Labour Organization (May 11) highlights the situation of child soldiers, forced to kill or to serve as sex slaves. In Northern Uganda, some reports suggest that 20’000 children have been abducted and used during a long-running conflict with the Lords Resistance Army in the north of the country. ILO TV reports.
• Global Report on forced labour -
  11 May 2005 - The BBC World Service's Owen Bennett Jones interviews ILO Director-General Juan Somavia about the Global Report "A Global Alliance against Forced Labour".
• Migrant workers in Ukraine -
  11 May 2005 - Euronews reports on Ukrainian migrant workers as a new Global Report on forced labour is released by the ILO.