All ILO Newsroom content

January 2001

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   Video

   INDIA; THE SEARCH FOR HIGHER VALUE-ADDED ICT MARKETS

   23 January 2001

   India’s software industry has grown at a phenomenal rate of over 50 percent in the last decade. Trivandum is home to just one of the many software Technology Parks set up by the Indian government that has brought the country racing into the information economy.

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   Video

   Decent work deficit in Asia

   15 January 2001

   Asia has been struggling to recover from a financial crisis that rocked the region 4 years ago. But that recovery is on shaky ground as the global economic downturn throws more people out of work and into uncertainty. The International Labour Org. opens a four-day conference in the region to shore up recovery as ILO TV explains.

September 2000

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   The Shipbreakers (trailer)

   01 September 2000

   Few nations are willing to accept the dirty and dangerous work of dismantling a ship by hand. It is one of the world's most unregulated and hazardous industries, leaving a trail of debris, disability and death in its wake. At the same time, it is an industry that supplies much needed income to Bangladeshi workers who have few decent alternatives. Full-length duration: 23 minutes.

May 2000

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   Official site of the Ninth African Regional Meeting

   30 May 2000

2. Video

   Forced to Labour (trailer)

   01 May 2000

   Everyday millions of people around the world are forced to labour under inhumane conditions with the threat of violence or abuse. This documentary examines specific examples of the global phenomenon of forced labour such as slavery, bonded labour, human trafficking and coercive recruitment and the socio economic conditions that allow it to persist. Full-length duration: 30 minutes.

April 2000

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   I am a child (VHS PAL)

   04 April 2000

   International Labour Conference, 86th Session, 1998. Report VI, Part 1.

December 1999

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   Video

   The Face of Decent Work

   01 December 1999

   Every day, 6,300 people die as a result of occupational accidents or work-related diseases - more than 2.3 million deaths per year. Over 337 million accidents occur on the job annually; many of these resulting in extended absences from work. The human cost of this daily adversity is vast and the economic burden of poor occupational safety and health practices is estimated at 4 per cent of global Gross Domestic Product each year. In terms of shattered families and communities, the damage is irreparable. The SafeWork programme of the International Labour Organization reaches out to people in the most hazardous occupations to help them make their workplace a decent and safe place to work.

November 1999

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   Her way to work (VHS-NTSC)

   11 November 1999

September 1999

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   Her Way to Work

   01 September 1999

   In the past few decades an unprecedented number of women have joined an increasingly mobile and non traditional workforce. Four women (from the Philippines, Mozambique, and the Dominican Republic) show how, in their own way, they are trying to put dignity and equality back on track for women at work.

June 1999

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   The Face of Decent Work

   01 June 1999

   This is an exposé of some of the world’s most deadly professions (mining and agriculture) and hazards of the workplace (factory fires). It shows conditions of labour unchanged over hundreds of years and the victims of these conditions under pressure to produce in an increasingly competitive and global economy.