Video interviews

January 2012

1. 

   The Employment Challenge in 2012 - An Interview with ILO's Ekkehard Ernst

   24 January 2012

   ILO TV interviews Ekkehard Ernst, Chief of the ILO Employment Trends Unit, about global employment trends for 2012. He outlines three scenarios, projecting what the global employment situation could be like if economic growth estimates hold true, if they decline, and if there is an improvement.

2. 

   North Africa Employment Trends 2012 - An Interview with Dorothea Schmidt

   24 January 2012

   ILO TV interviews Dorothea Schmidt, a Senior ILO Employment Specialist based in Cairo, about rising unemployment across North Africa and the impact it is having in particular on young people and women. Based on findings from the ILO's Global Employment Trends 2012 report, she also discusses the lack of productive growth in North Africa and the need for further development of labour market institutions such as public employment services. Despite short-term negative effects on North African economies, Ms. Schmidt describes the ILO's hope that the Arab Spring of 2011 will have a positive impact on labour markets in the long-term.

November 2011

1. 

   ILO Director-General Juan Somavia Addresses the General Assembly of the International Cooperative Alliance

   17 November 2011

   The biannual General Assembly of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) is being held from 15-18 November, 2011 in Cancun, Mexico. On this occasion the global cooperative community also marked the launch of the UN International Year of Cooperatives. Through a video message, ILO Director-General Juan Somavia addressed the opening session of the gathering.

October 2011

1. 

   Risk of social unrest increases as deeper jobs recession looms

   31 October 2011

   Raymond Torres, Director of the ILO International Institute for Labour Studies, discusses the likelihood of a deeper global jobs recession in a grim analysis outlined in the World of Work report, issued by the ILO on the eve of the G20 leaders summit. The report projects that the global economy is on the verge of a new jobs recession that will further delay the global economic recovery and may ignite more social unrest in scores of countries.

2. 

   Questions and answers on Global Employment Trends for Youth

   19 October 2011

   Interview with Sara Elder, ILO Economist at the Employment Trends Unit, Author of the report "Global Employment Trends for Youth".

June 2011

1. 

   Voices from the Conference - Parting Impressions

   17 June 2011

   The views and aspirations of some of the more than 4,000 participants of the 100th International Labour Conference are shared in a video finale presented at the closing ceremony in the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. It is a parting impression of 17 days of committee discussions, special events, high-level panels, special guests and the adoption of a landmark convention for domestic workers.

2. 

   Voices from the 100th International Labour Conference III

   16 June 2011

3. 

   Voices from the 100th International Labour Conference II

   14 June 2011

   A selection of short interviews were filmed at the 100th anniversary of the International Labour Conference, held at the United Nations in Geneva. These highlights include delegates' views on the issue of social justice, the International Labour Conference (ILC) as an invaluable and unique forum for tripartite dialogue between workers, employers and government representatives as well as youth unemployment in the 21st Century.

4. 

   Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Appeals to the ILO to Expand its Activities in Myanmar

   13 June 2011

   Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the former General Secretary of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar, spoke via video message to the delegates of the 100th International Labour Conference of the ILO. She expressed her hope that the ILO would expand its activities in Myanmar and help usher in an era of social justice. The International Labour Organization's current activities in Myanmar include efforts to ensure the elimination of forced labour.

5. 

   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.