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October 2011

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   Video

   ILO Director General Visits "Occupy Wall Street"

   27 October 2011

   ILO Director General Juan Somavia went to Zuccotti Park in the financial district of Manhattan, to have a first-hand look and listen to the people of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City.

October 2010

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   Entrevistas en vídeo

   ILO Director-General Juan Somavia highlights the courage of the 33 Chilean miners

   13 October 2010

   With the rescue team still at work, ILO Director General Juan Somavia spoke with ILO TV and emphasized the strength and courage of the 33 trapped Chilean miners, their families and the Chilean people who together made possible what seemed so impossible.

June 2008

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   Video

   ILC coverage: Urgent counter measures needed to ward off "sub-prime work" says ILO Director General

   09 June 2008

   Urgent counter measures are needed to ward off "sub-prime work", says the ILO Director General, Juan Somavia. The balance can be found in the Decent Work Agenda and a fair globalization.

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   Video

   ILC coverage: Flexicurity and Danish Tripartism

   09 June 2008

   The search for a better combination of flexibility and security regarding employment, income and social protection is a major challenge within the European Union. Denmark has been a pioneer in implementing a system of flexicurity in its labour market. A panel discussion at the 97th International Labour Conference addressed the issue of "Flexicurity for Decent Work: a labour market policy approach" with the participation of ILO experts and tripartite delegates from Denmark, including Claus Hjort Frederiksen, Danish Minister for Employment, Marie-Louise Knuppert of the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions, Jorn Neergaard Larsen of the Confederation of Danish Employers and José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Director, Employment Sector, ILO.

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   ILC coverage: The social dimension of public procurement

   04 June 2008

   The Labour Clauses (Public Contracts) Convention, 1949 (No. 94) and Recommendation (No. 84) have been largely misunderstood, almost from the moment of their adoption. Mr. Hugh Williamson of the Financial Times moderates a discussion of these two instruments in light of modern public procurement policies posing the question, among many others, of how to avoid a race to the bottom and how to achieve "best value" vs a " lowest price culture." Speakers at the discussion included Mr. Jan Andersson, President, Employment and Social Committee, European Parliament, Ms. Sonia Regenbogen Luciw, Heenan Blaikie LLP and Ms. Fiona Murie, Building and Wood Workers International (BWI).

February 2006

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   Indonesian Furniture Industry

   07 February 2006

   For years, environmentalists have worried about the deforestation of jungles in Indonesia that supply precious woods for garden furniture in the West. But along with these natural resources, a centuries-old livelihood is also under threat as ILO TV explains.