Video News Releases

October 2005

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   MOBILE BEAUTICIANS IN INDIA

   13 October 2005

   A beauty service at home is a growing trend among New Delhi’s fashion-conscious women. But the city’s mobile beauticians are not only a convenience for busy urban women, but a way for the city’s enormous numbers of urban poor to increase their income. ILO TV explains.

July 2005

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   JAMAICA YOUTH EMPLOYMENT

   15 July 2005

   The International Labour Organization has found that nearly half of the world’s unemployed are under the age of 24. In Jamaica, the National Training Agency, known as HEART, gives young people the skills they need. ILO TV profiles the manager of a hotel school, who not so long ago was a trainee herself.

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   EXPLOITATION IN GERMAN MEAT INDUSTRY

   07 July 2005

   An ILO study detailed 42 cases of forced labour in Germany, where migrant workers in particular find themselves tricked into situations where they are forced to work for low pay -- or no pay. ILO TV reports from Germany on a new union set up especially for workers away from home.

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   Ukraine: child labour in mining

   07 July 2005

   In Ukraine, most legally-operated coal mines closed down following the break-up of the Soviet Union. Yet many families still dig for coal in illegal mines and children are expected to work, too. The International Labour Organization is working together with trade unions and the government to put an end to child labour and create new jobs.

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   FIGHTING TRAFFICKING IN THAILAND

   07 July 2005

   Many victims of trafficking leave home voluntarily in a desperate search for work, only to find themselves exploited. In the hills of Northern Thailand, efforts are being made to offer women and children alternative sources of income to encourage them to stay at home. ILO TV reports on how an anti- trafficking programme is supporting the development of eco-tourism.

June 2005

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   MAKING A LIVING UNDER THE SUN IN KENYA

   29 June 2005

   More than 90 per cent of all jobs created in Africa are in the informal sector, many of them in small open-air workshops. In Kenya, this kind of business is known as jua kali, or “fierce sun” and now well-established employers are working together with the ILO to link up with the informal sector to raise quality and working conditions.

2. 

   Children Exploited in Mongolian Gold Rush

   27 June 2005

   Many working in makeshift Mongolian gold mines are children whose families seek a way out of poverty. The ILO is trying to remove these children from one of the most hazardous jobs in the world.

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   BACK TO WORK IN BANDA ACEH

   24 June 2005

   As well as countless lives, hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost in the Asian tsunami. Through an employment network and business start-up courses, the International Labour Organization is helping survivors get back to work.

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   PERU: CHILD LABOUR IN GOLD MINES

   23 June 2005

   In Peru, up to 50 000 children work as gold miners in small-scale mines, braving dangerous conditions and constantly at risk from accidents. In Santa Filomena, the International Labour Organization is working together with a local group to put an end to child labour.

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   UKRAINE: TRAFFICKING SURVIVORS

   22 June 2005

   Human trafficking is big business, with profits of trafficking worldwide estimated at $32 billion by the International Labour Organization. Men and women are smuggled across borders and often fo rced to work against their will but as ILO TV reports from Ukraine, trafficking is rooted in unemployment and poverty.