All ILO Newsroom content
June 2011
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Video
Video Highlights of World Day Against Child Labour ILO Events
10 June 2011
A press conference launching the ILO report: "Children in hazardous work - What We know, What we need to do" marked World Day Against Child Labour. Speaking at the press conference were Constance Thomas, Director the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) and Frank Hagemann, Chief of Policy and Research at IPEC. A panel discussion followed with Enoch T Mensah, Ghanas Minister of Employment and Social Welfare, Dagoberto Lima Godoy, spokesman for the Employers Group at the 100th International Labour Conference and N.M. Adyantha, spokesman for the Workers Group at the 100th International Labour Conference. Schoolchildren from Geneva gathered in front of the United Nations Geneva headquarters to celebrate global efforts to end child labour.
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Video
ILO Global Report on Equality at Work 2011: Statements by the ILO's Director-General Juan Somavia and UN Women's Executive Director Michelle Bachelet
10 June 2011
ILO's Director-General, Juan Somavia, opened the Global Report Panel Discussion "Equality at work: the continuing challenge" at the 100th International Labour Conference. Speaking as a special guest on the panel, the Executive Director of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet, called for a stronger commitment from governments, employers and workers to eliminate gender discrimination in the labour market.
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Video interview
Eliminating Hazardous Child Labour: An Interview with the ILO's Constance Thomas
10 June 2011
ILO TV interviews Constance Thomas, Director of the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour. In a new report issued for World Day Against Child Labour, the International Labour Organization warns that a staggeringly high number of children are still caught in hazardous work - some 115 million of the world's 215 million child labourers - and calls for urgent action to halt the practice.
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Video
Statement by Sophia Kisting-Cairncross, International Labour Organization (ILO) at the 2011 High Level Meeting on AIDS (New York, 8-10 June 2011)
10 June 2011
United Nations Webcast
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Video News Release
India: Working Together to End Hazardous Child Labour
10 June 2011
Around 115 million boys and girls under the age of 18 are involved in hazardous child labour. Making a change is possible. In India both employers and trade unions are actively involved in the fight against child labour, especially when it comes to keeping children out of hazardous work.
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Video
Voices from the 100th International Labour Conference
10 June 2011
A selection of comments filmed in the first few days at the 100th Anniversary of the International Labour Conference, held at the United Nations building in Geneva. These highlights include delegate's views on the issue of domestic labour, the International Labour Conference (ILC) as an invaluable and unique forum for tripartite dialogue between workers, employers and government representatives, as well as the importance of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the 21st Century.
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I-News
Youth leaders tell ILO they need “jobs”, but express optimism for the future
10 June 2011
Youth leaders from around the world told the annual conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) they need “jobs”, but expressed optimism that their efforts would eventually result in employment, more equitable societies and decent work.
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Statement
Message by Juan Somavia Director-General of the International Labour Office on the occasion of World Day against Child Labour
10 June 2011
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Feature story
Monitoring hazardous child labour in Tajikistan
10 June 2011
Labour inspectors often find it difficult to reach out to informal economy workplaces where hazardous child labour occurs most frequently. According to this year’s ILO report for World Day Against Child Labour, child labour monitoring (CLM) systems are a powerful means to support labour inspectorates.
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Article
ILO unveils book calling for new thinking on labour issues
09 June 2011
The ILO and the Global Labour University have unveiled a new anthology of global labour writing that calls for fresh thinking on key issues ranging from responses to the global economic crisis to globalization, and workers’ rights. The book - entitled “There is an alternative Economic policies and labour strategies beyond the mainstream” will be launched at the International Labour Conference in Geneva.