Video News Releases

December 2010

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   Malawi: Businesswomen on Board with HIV/AIDS Message

   01 December 2010

   It’s tough to be an entrepreneur; it’s a lot tougher when you’re a woman from a low income background, running a small scale enterprise across international borders. But in Malawi the challenges for pioneering women entrepreneurs also include the risk of HIV infection. That’s why a local business association is welcoming a new initiative to educate entrepreneurs how to protect themselves. And the classroom is an unconventional one; on board the bus to buy goods across the border in Tanzania.

September 2010

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   Lebanon's First Woman Electrician

   23 September 2010

   In 2006 war devastated areas of Southern Lebanon. In recent years, the pace of reconstruction has been enhanced by a new program that trains young people at risk for long term unemployment in job skills in the building and construction industries. One of the brightest prospects from the new program is also one of the most unlikely; she’s on track to become southern Lebanon’s first woman electrician.

September 2009

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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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   Liberia : Women Building a Path to Prosperity

   22 September 2009

   After 14 years of conflict, Liberia is on the road to recovery. The International Labour Organization (ILO) has joined forces with the government and the private sector to help kick start the economy with a road building programme, where nearly half the workers are women.

May 2009

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   Empowering Women: 90 years of ILO action

   01 May 2009

   Just how far gender equality has advanced in the world of work, and how far it has to go, can be measured by progress in the ILO itself. Maria Angelica Ducci is the highest ranking woman in the ILO’s 90 year history. Ms. Ducci talked about the ILO’s past, present and future.

June 2008

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   New Skills and New Faces Revive Argentina’s Naval Industry

   05 June 2008

   South of Buenos Aires is Mar del Plata, a popular seaside resort and one of Argentina’s major ports. For years Mar del Plata had an important ship-building industry, but when the government liberalised the economy in the 1990s most of the ship-yards were forced to downsize or close down. The AREA programme has helped them get back on their feet, by bringing workers, employers and learning institutions together to address the needs of the industry.

April 2008

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   A Banker for Sri Lankan Women: Rupa Manel Silva

   02 April 2008

   A new report from the International Labour Organization shows that economic empowerment for women is vital for equal participation of women and men in the labour market and equal access to obtaining decent work. In Sri Lanka, Rupa Manel Silva is leading the way with a bank run by women for women.

March 2006

1. French Woman Boxer

   05 March 2006

   World light welterweight champion Myriam Lamare is passionate that women have a place in boxing and has several championship belts to prove it. As a professional boxer, she has overcome the gender barriers and earned the titles, but in a profession still dominated by men, she is far from a million-dollar baby. ILO TV explains.