Video News Releases

May 2013

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   Tackling Bonded Labour in Tamil Nadu

   03 May 2013

   In India's Tamil Nadu state, thousands of people desperate for money are offered advance payments to work in the region's many brick kilns. While this system has worked well enough in the past for both employers and workers, many workers run the risk of "debt bondage" because they cannot leave the worksite until they repay the advance in full. But the situation is changing now, by ILO working with government and employers, and showing workers how they can take more control of their own lives.

June 2011

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   India: Working Together to End Hazardous Child Labour

   10 June 2011

   Around 115 million boys and girls under the age of 18 are involved in hazardous child labour. Making a change is possible. In India both employers and trade unions are actively involved in the fight against child labour, especially when it comes to keeping children out of hazardous work.

June 2010

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   India: Ending the Stigma of HIV/AIDS for Construction Workers

   17 June 2010

   In India, construction is one of the fastest growing sectors engaging a large number of migrant workers from across the country. With little knowledge about HIV, and culturally and socially isolated in India’s big cities, migrant workers are especially vulnerable to HIV infection. Informal workers, including migrant workers, make up 93 per cent of India’s 400 million-plus workforce. How to tackle discrimination towards workers with HIV and help prevent the spread of HIV have become a national priority, with the adoption of a national policy on HIV/AIDS and the world of work.

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   India: Fighting Child Labour with School Lunches

   11 June 2010

   In the past 10 years, more than 30 million children have been taken out of child labour. But according to the ILO's Global Report, today an estimated 215 million children are still working, on the streets, in farm fields, in some of the worst and most hazardous forms of work. Integrated national policies to protect children, get them out of work and into school have made an impact, moving the international community closer to its goal of eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2016. One way forward can be found in India, and the world's largest school lunch program.

September 2009

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   India: Puppets Versus Child Labour

   28 September 2009

   The art of puppetry has a profound place in India’s deep tradition of storytelling. For centuries, puppets have not only been used to entertain, but to educate, inspire, and even heal the sick and the disabled. Now this ancient Indian art form is being used in a new way, to fight the plague of child labour in India.

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   India: Finding a Voice in the Silk Industry

   28 September 2009

   When families have no source of immediate income, often the only answer the families seem to have is sending their children to work. And just as the parents themselves were sent to work when they were young, the plague of child labour passes on from one generation to another. But in India’s silk industry, now it is the mothers who are breaking the cycle of child labour. At the same time, thanks to a remarkably successful initiative, the mothers of the silk industry are finding their own voices; in their families, in their communities, and in changing society for the better.

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   India: Fighting Child Labour with Street Plays

   28 September 2009

   Like every complex problem, the causes of child labour are many: social, economic, cultural, and political factors all play a role. But perhaps the best way to help people understand and do something about the plague of child labour is to reach out to them on their own terms, using stories taken from real life. In India, this unique approach is having remarkable results, and it is playing out on the streets of hundreds of villages.

May 2009

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   Building a Safety and Health Culture in India’s Construction Sector

   18 May 2009

   In India’s construction sites, women are doing much of the unskilled heavy work. Effective training can give them a chance to overcome dangerous work practices and provide opportunities to secure skilled, better paying jobs that improve the quality of their lives.

October 2006

1. Making Information Technology Work For Agriculture in India

   02 October 2006

   Despite a rapid growth in it’s information communication technology sector, the digital divide in India is getting wider. Using IT in the agricultural sector is one solution to help reduce poverty in India and bridge the digital divide.

November 2005

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   PUPPETS SPREAD AIDS MESSAGE IN INDIA

   24 November 2005

   Raising awareness of HIV/AIDS can be difficult in countries where sex is taboo and literacy rates are low. An Indian community group supported by the International Labour OrganiZation has been reaching out to truck drivers and migrant workers with an entertaining and educational puppet show.