ILO on the air

October 2009 

• Employment in Latin America: A CNN Interview with ILO Director-General - - Duration: 00:05:34
  05 October 2009 - In a CNN interview with Luis Carlos Velez, ILO Director-General, Juan Somavia, talks about the employment situation in Latin America. (in Spanish)

June 2009 

• Global Jobs Summit draws world leaders to Geneva - - Duration: 00:03:34 (12.2 MB)
  17 June 2009 - BBC World Business Report covers the first day of the Global Jobs Summit and looks at the meaning of the Global Jobs Pact.
• Concentrate, Concentrate on Jobs - - Duration: 00:06:27 (22.2 MB)
  17 June 2009 - Richard Quest of CNN's "Quest Means Business" discusses the Global Jobs Pact with ILO Director-General Juan Somavia during the Global Jobs Summit
• Quest for Jobs - - Duration: 00:04:06 (21.2 MB)
  02 June 2009 - 25 May 2009 - CNN's Richard Quest examines the severity of the jobs crisis, its impact on wages and how long it is likely to last with ILO's Raymond Torres on "Quest Means Business".

May 2009 

• China: HIV-positive migrant worker raises AIDS awareness on the big screen - - Duration: 00:02:46 (9.67 MB)
  15 May 2009 - In China, more than 200 million people are migrant workers – that is about 15 per cent of the country's population. And what is more they are amongst the most vulnerable to contracting HIV/AIDS as ILO TV reports for CNN World Report.
• Liberia: A new project is helping clean up Monrovia’s streets of tens of thousands of tons of garbage - - Duration: 00:03:00 (10.3 MB)
  15 May 2009 - ILO TV reports for CNN World Report from Liberia, where efforts are underway to generate jobs that both provide a decent income and protect the environment.

March 2009 

• ILO proposes a Global Jobs Pact - - Duration: 00:02:00 (6.61 MB)
  24 March 2009 - According to a new report from the ILO, not enough money from economic stimulus packages is devoted to job creation. BBC World Business report talks to ILO Director-General Juan Somavia about the ILO's proposal for a "Global Jobs Pact."

February 2009 

• Rising Unemployment: Cause for more crime, discrimination, social unrest? - - Duration: 00:22:33 (138 MB)
  27 February 2009 - Riz Khan interviews ILO Director-General Juan Somavia about the social backlash of the financial crisis. As the financial and economic crisis worsens will rising unemployment lead to more crime, discrimination, even racism around the world?

January 2009 

• BBC World Business Report on ILO's Global Employment Trends 2009 - - Duration: 00:02:52
  28 January 2009 - BBC World Business Report interviewed ILO economist Lawrence Johnson about the impact the global economic crisis on global unemployment, the working poor and vulnerable employment in 2009.

July 2008 

• Forgotten ILO murals uncovered at the WTO - - Duration: 00:02:57 (8.5 MB)
  22 July 2008 - ARTE reports from the World Trade Organization in Geneva, formerly the headquarters of the International Labour Organization, where forgotten murals about labour and workers have been re-discovered and put back on display. (in French)
• The Road Ahead for Liberia - - Duration: 00:02:33 (7.5 MB)
  12 July 2008 - ILO TV reports for CNN World Report from Liberia, where road-building is part of a multi-lateral effort to help the country get back on its feet and people back into jobs.
• CNN awards ILO TV with "Best Business Report 2008" - - Duration: 00:02:25 (14.2 MB)
  11 July 2008 - The ILO TV story "Child Trafficking in Burkina Faso" has won the 2008 CNN World Report Award for "Best Business Report". Selected from over 70 nominations from more than 40 contributors, the report highlights ILO efforts to prevent children from being trafficked in Burkina Faso.

May 2008 

• Empowering Ghanaian people in business - - Duration: 00:02:57 (15.1 MB)
  25 May 2008 - ILO TV reports for CNN World Report from the coast of Ghana, where an ILO project is helping informal businesses to become more formal and give workers access to social protection.
• Banking for women in Sri Lanka - - Duration: 00:02:57 (10.4 MB)
  11 May 2008 - Rupa Manel Silva is tackling poverty in Sri Lanka with a bank for women. ILO TV reports for CNN World Report.

March 2008 

• Philippines radio show discusses employment trends for women in South East Asia and around the world - Duration: 00:06:03 (2.4 MB)
  07 March 2008 - With the release of a new report on "Global Employment Trends for Women 2008", Radio Veritas in the Philippines interviews the Director of the ILO Subregional Office for South-East Asia and the Pacific, Linda Wirth.

January 2008 

• "Challenges ahead for the jobs market" Director-General is interviewed by CNN during the World Economic Forum in Davos, 24 January 2008 - - Duration: 00:05:16 (12.4 MB)
  24 January 2008 -

September 2007 

• BBC's World Business Report focuses on productivity - - Duration: 00:03:32 (9 MB)
  04 September 2007 - BBC's World Business Report talks about labour productivity and other Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) with Lawrence J. Johnson.

July 2007 

• CNBC World Business reports on child labour - - Duration: 00:05:21 (10.3 MB)
  27 July 2007 - CNBC's World Business programme talks with the ILO expert Frank Hagemann and reports on global efforts to eliminate child labour.

May 2007 

• Leman Bleu TV discusses ILO Global Report on Discrimination - - Duration: 00:03:01 (5.24 MB)
  15 May 2007 - Leman Bleu TV talks to Zafar Shaheed about how Switzerland is faring in its efforts to eliminate discrimination in the workplace.

April 2007 

• Afghanistan: Women Entrepreneurs - - Duration: 00:02:19 (4.10 MB)
  29 April 2007 - More than two decades of conflict have crippled Afghanistan’s economy. But some Afghan women are taking their handicraft skills to the market and playing an active role in the country’s reconstruction and development.