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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.

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

   Delegate Dialogues: Emmanuel Otaala Otiam, Minister of Labour, Uganda - 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.

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   Video

   Delegate Dialogues: Emmanuel Otaala Otiam, Minister of Labour, Uganda - 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.

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   Video

   Delegate Dialogues: Rosemary Ssenabulya, Executive Director, Federation of Uganda Employers - 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.

May 2010

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   Video

   Uganda: HIV Orphans Off the Streets and into School

   10 May 2010

   Africa has the highest incidence of child labour in the world, further complicated by high rates of HIV. But some Sub-Saharan African countries like Uganda have been world leaders in getting children out of child labour and into primary school through a National Child Labour Policy that specifically addresses HIV.

June 2008

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   Video

   Uganda: ENHAS Airport Ground Handlers

   06 June 2008

   With one of the best airport safety records in Africa, collective bargaining with the transport union and investment in staff training has paid off for Uganda’s Entebbe Airport ground handlers ENHAS.

October 2007

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   Video

   Uganda: Maternity leave brings protection to women security guards and their employer

   17 October 2007

   All African women work. Very few women work in formal workplaces. Even fewer expect to keep their job when they have a baby, much less get maternity leave. But that is not the case for a group of women security guards in Uganda. As ILO TV reports, in an industry where it's a surprise to find women at work, both workers and employer are finding advantages in unionization and maternity leave.

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.

May 2006

1. Video

   Uganda: Child Labour in Tea Plantations

   30 May 2006

   40,000 children work in tea plantations in Tooro, Western Uganda. Across Africa nearly 50 million children work, the majority of these in agriculture. A new report from the International Labour Organization highlights the role played by Ugandan employers, trade unions and government in eliminating child labour.

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   Article

   Child labour in Africa: Plucking the Green Gold of Tooro

   04 May 2006

   The new ILO report "The end of child labour: Within reach" paints a mixed picture of child labour worldwide. While the global total of child labourers is on the decline, there remain some 50 million working children in sub-Saharan Africa. But the unprecedented international movement to end child labour is opening a window of opportunity for Africa's fight against the practice. ILO Online reports from a tea plantation in Uganda.