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February 2013

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   Youth entrepreneurship

   From slum living to company director

   25 February 2013

   One woman’s success story shows how green entrepreneurship could be an answer to both youth unemployment and environmental degradation in Africa.

October 2012

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   World Teachers Day

   Teachers struggle to be top of the class

   05 October 2012

   Teachers face severe challenges in different parts of the world and are still under pressure to produce results. As the profession marks World Teachers Day, two teachers working thousands of miles apart tell their stories.

June 2011

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   Video

   Video Highlights: Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Addresses the 100th International Labour Conference

   15 June 2011

November 2010

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   Video

   2010 East African Business Council regional CEO Testing Day and Health Fair: A Message of Dr Sophia Kisting

   11 November 2010

   Dr Sophia Kisting, Director of the ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work, invited leaders from the business community in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda to participate in a voluntary testing and counselling initiative and give effect to the ILO new international labour standard on HIV and AIDS.

June 2010

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   Video

   Maternity Protection in Tanzania

   16 June 2010

   Over 80 per cent of women in Tanzania work. They also play an important role fundamental to Tanzania's future: they give birth. Reconciling these different roles is not always easy and women are often faced with an impossible choice between ensuring their families' economic well-being and raising healthy children. The ILO, the Tanzanian government, its trade unions and employers' organizations are working together to help move the country closer towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals of reducing child mortality and improving maternal health.

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   Video

   Delegate Dialogues: Michael Besha, Assistant Secretary-General, Organization of African Trade Union Unity - Committee for HIV/AIDS

   10 June 2010

   ILO TV interviews delegates participating in the Committee for HIV/AIDS at the 99th International Labour Conference in Geneva from 2-18 June 2010. The committee members have discussed a proposed new labour standard on HIV/AIDS in the world of work. The proposed standard contains provisions on prevention programmes and anti-discrimination measures at national and workplace levels aimed at strengthening the contribution of the world of work to universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.

June 2007

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   Video

   Tackling Child Labour in Agriculture

   12 June 2007

   Worldwide, agriculture is the sector where by far the largest number of working children can be found - an estimated 70 per cent, of whom 132 million are girls and boys aged 5-14. These children are helping to produce the food and beverages we consume. Their labour is used for crops such as cereals, cocoa, coffee, fruit, sugar, palm oil, rice, tea, tobacco and vegetables. They also work in livestock raising and herding, and in the production of other agricultural materials such as cotton and cottonseed.

February 2007

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   Video

   Sowing The Seeds Of Women’s Rights

   09 February 2007

   The cut flower industry in Tanzania and across East Africa is booming. Trade unionist Phillipina Mosha is training workers in the cut flower business to understand their labour rights, promote gender equality and improve safety and health in the workplace.

December 2003

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   Video

   Waste removal in Tanzania

   11 December 2003

   Youth unemployment accounts for nearly 60 per cent of Africa's jobless population. But in Dar es Salaam, women and young people have found the road out of poverty not only littered with waste, but with opportunity. ILO TV explains…