Video News Releases

2007 

• Occupational Safety and Health in Bulgaria -
  06 February 2007 - With Bulgaria's entry into the European Union, employers place a high priority on safety and health in the workplace.
• Rebuilding Baphuon Temple in Angkor, Cambodia -
  05 February 2007 - Tourists will soon be able to visit one of Angkor’s greatest treasures: the 11th century Baphuon temple. Now the temple is the centre of a huge archaeological reconstruction effort. Safety training means today’s Khmer construction workers are reclaiming this piece of their heritage without the dangers their ancestors faced.
• Global employment trends press conference: video coverage -
  24 January 2007 -
• Marinalva: Mobile Squad Labour Inspector -
  12 January 2007 - Marinalva is a labour inspector, part of the Brazilian government team called the “mobile squad”. They inspect farms in remote parts of the country, rescuing workers from forced labour as ILO TV explains.
• Burkina Faso: Protecting the Environment by Profiting from Garbage -
  12 January 2007 - Burkina Faso’s first plastic recycling centre is paving the way for a new kind of development project. It provides a money earner to the poor while tackling environmental pollution. Local industry also benefits – the recycled plastic granules cost half the price of importing new plastic from abroad.
• Bulgaria: joining the European Union -
  12 January 2007 - As Bulgaria joins the European Union, it must enforce tougher safety and health standards. To avoid having to pay out big compensation benefits, Bulgarian employers are looking more towards preventing accidents before they happen by setting up a safety and health monitoring service. ILO TV explains:

2006 

• Cultural heritage project a tool for development in Peru -
  24 December 2006 - Poor communities in Northern Lima, Peru benefit from a colonial church restoration project led by architect Luis Villacorta, an alumnus of the ILO's International Training Centre in Turin, Italy. ILO TV reports.
• Peruvian Culture: A Tool For Development -
  27 November 2006 - The restoration of colonial churches and the development of religious tourism is bringing new economic activity to poor parts of Northern Lima. The benefits of cultural projects for development are twofold; not only can they help alleviate poverty, they also strengthen cultural identity.
• Sweet taste of success -
  05 November 2006 - ILO business training has helped Tsunami survivor, Asriana, turn her donut-making enterprise into a success.
• The sweet taste of success -
  19 October 2006 - Out of the destruction and tragedy of the December 2004 Tsunami, people like Asriana have overcome grief and financial ruin to start life anew. A business training course run by the ILO in Banda Aceh, has helped Asriana develop her business skills and turn a donut-making enterprise into a success.