Audio

2010

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   Juan Somavia Addresses the Opening of the ILO's 99th International Labour Conference

   02 June 2010

   The ILO Director-General Juan Somavia has called for a “balanced” policy strategy aimed at securing a “jobs-rich” economic recovery in the face of new threats to the global economy from the sovereign debt crisis and fiscal retrenchment.

2. 

   Earthquake in Haiti - Eyewitness account by ILO's Richard Lavallée

   15 January 2010

   Richard Lavallée, Programme Coordinator for the ILO's Better Work programme in Haiti, describes conditions in Port-au-Prince immediately in the aftermath of the 7.2 earthquake that destroyed the Haitian capital on January 12, 2009.

2009

1. 

   The Hidden Jobs Crisis: Audio interview with Raymond Torres, author of the World of Work report 2009

   07 December 2009

   As economies start to show signs of recovery from the global economic and financial crisis, some countries may think about pulling back support measures for job creation and social protection. But this could undermine or even prevent economic recovery if done too soon or too abruptly as Raymond Torres, author of the ILO report "The World of Work 2009, the Global Jobs Crisis and Beyond" explains. (audio file)

2. 

   ILO Director-General Juan Somavia closing remarks to the 98th International Labour Conference

   19 June 2009

3. 

   Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, addressing the 98th International Labour Conference during its closing session

   19 June 2009

4. 

   Closing remarks by ILO Director-General Juan Somavia - ILO Summit on the Global Jobs Crisis - 17 June 2009

   17 June 2009

5. 

   Prime Minister Bruce Golding of Jamaica told the Global Jobs Summit that the scale of the global economic crisis has hit thriving economies hard and struggling economies even harder. Supporting the call for a global jobs pact, he says job creation is an essential ingredient, not an outcome, of economic recovery (in English)

   16 June 2009

6. 

   Prime Minister Tertius Zongo, Burkina Faso, tells the International Labour Conference that the employment crisis could become a large-scale social crisis and that a real solution will require a more democratic global economy (in French)

   16 June 2009

7. 

   Mr. Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé, President of the Togolese Republic addressing the ILO Summit on Global jobs crisis (in French)

   15 June 2009

8. 

   Ms. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President of the Argentine Republic addressing the ILO Summit on Global jobs crisis (in Spanish)

   15 June 2009