Video News Releases

2004 

• Child domestic workers in Central America -
  18 June 2004 - CNN reports that more than 40 000 girls in Central America have been exploited as child domestic workers, some have been abused and kept in slave conditions.
• The real story of Cinderella: Children in domestic labour -
  11 June 2004 - All children are encouraged to lend a hand at home. But a new report from the International Labour Organization, or ILO, highlights the plight of the millions of youngsters who are exploited in domestic service. ILO TV tells the real story of Cinderella.
• World Day Against Child Labour -
  11 June 2004 - ILO Paris Director Jean-Daniel Leroy is interviewed on France 2 about child domestic labour.
• International Labour Conference -
  09 June 2004 - Official visit of the President of the Government of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to the International Labour Conference in Geneva.
• H&M IN CAMBODIA -
  17 May 2004 - In Cambodia, a company supplying garments for big name brands such as H&M has shown that improving working conditions can increase productivity. Globalisation means that factories have to respond fast to the demands of the fashion business, but as ILO TV reports, in labour relations, Archid garments is setting the trend.
• World Day for Safety and Health at Work -
  05 May 2004 - An internationally standardized system for labelling chemicals is the subject of a CNN World Report.
• BANGLADESH GARMENT WORKERS: A CUT ABOVE THE REST -
  22 April 2004 - Millions of women in developing countries work in the garment industry, sewing clothes which are exported the world over. But the better paid jobs are often the preserve of men. The International Labour Organization promotes rights in the workplace and an end to sex discrimination. ILO TV now reports from a factory in Bangladesh where women are proving they, too, can be a cut above the rest.
• NEW FORMULAS FOR CHEMICAL SAFETY -
  08 April 2004 - This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the Bhopal chemicals plant disaster, following which some 20,000 people died. The International Labour Organization estimates that of the two million work-related fatalities each year, nearly a quarter (439,999) are caused by chemicals. ...
• International Women’s Day -
  08 March 2004 - Euronews reports on the ILO panel discussion “Women of Justice: Balancing the Scales” featuring 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi and Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Carla Del Ponte, and also examines employment trends for women workers around the world.
• International Women’s Day -
  08 March 2004 - CNN’s Hala Gorani interviews ILO employment expert Lawrence Jeffrey Johnson about “Global Employment Trends for Women”.