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  • 2002 

  • 2001 

    • WORKING STREET CHILDREN IN ST. PETERSBURG -
      14 December 2001 - Beneath the palace-lined streets of St. Petersburg, live 16,000 children and their numbers are growing. Working street children are a new phenomenon in Russia brought on by the collapse of the Soviet system of support. They are only now learning how to cope.
    • BOSNIA - THE POTENTIAL OF DISTANCE LEARNING -
      12 December 2001 - Five years of civil war in Bosnia Herzegovina has left ruined villages and a ruptured economy. But in the city of Bihac, information and communication technology is paving a road to reconstruction.
    • CONDITIONS IN THE MARITIME INDUSTRY -
      07 December 2001 - More than 90 percent of the world’s trade tonnage is carried by a merchant fleet of some 50,000 ships. According to a report from the International Labour Organization (ILO), changes in the financing and management of these ships has led to deregulation and more flexible working conditions for seafarers, but these conditions are not always to their advantage.
    • ABANDONED IN AMSTERDAM -
      05 December 2001 - It used to be that a seafarer would only abandon ship under the most dire circumstances. But more and more, it is the seafarer who is finding himself abandoned, stranded and forgotten in foreign ports all over the world. It is a growing problem as ILO Television explains:
    • Jobs at Risk -
      29 November 2001 - Director-General Juan Somavia discusses threat to jobs as a result of global economic downturn and the events of September 11th
    • Global Job Fears -
      22 November 2001 - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan attends the ILO's Global Employment Forum amid projections that up to 24 million jobs could be lost worldwide.
    • NEW TECHNOLOGIES: INTERNET PEDOPHILIA -
      09 November 2001 - Use of the internet by paedophiles to abuse children will be a major issue at the upcoming Yokohama World Congress Against the Sexual and Commercial Exploitation of Children (Dec. 17-20). But in Thailand, some people are turning the internet to their advantage in their fight against child abuse and exploitation. ILO Television takes us there to explain
    • LEAPFROGGING IN COSTA RICA -
      02 November 2001 - Costa Rica is a country rooted in agriculture, known for its harvest of coffee beans and bananas. But along with these exports, the country has managed to leapfrog ahead of others in the region by placing an emphasis on high-tech training.
    • SHIPBREAKERS -
      22 October 2001 - On 20 kilometers of sloping beaches in Bangladesh, an army of men daily perform some of the world’s toughest work. Tankers that survived years of high-seasoned heavy loads are now dismantled as they were built, by hand.
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