Video News Releases

May 2010

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   Uganda: HIV Orphans Off the Streets and into School

   10 May 2010

   Africa has the highest incidence of child labour in the world, further complicated by high rates of HIV. But some Sub-Saharan African countries like Uganda have been world leaders in getting children out of child labour and into primary school through a National Child Labour Policy that specifically addresses HIV.

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   ILO Reports on Child Labour Globally

   07 May 2010

   Amid growing concerns over the impact of the economic downturn, the International Labour Office (ILO) warned in its new Global Report "Accelerating Action Against Child Labour" that efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour are slowing down and called for a re-energized global campaign to end the practice.

January 2010

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   Record Global Unemployment in 2009

   27 January 2010

   The number of jobless worldwide reached nearly 212 million in 2009 following an unprecedented increase of 34 million compared to 2007, on the eve of the global crisis, the International Labour Office (ILO) said in its annual Global Employment Trends report. "The increase that we've seen is the largest since we began tracking these global and regional trends in 1991 and in some countries we actually know this increase in unemployment is the largest they've seen since the Great Depression," said Lawrence Jeffrey Johnson, who directed the publication of the report.

December 2009

1. 

   Francis Blanchard: Former ILO Director-General Dies at age 93

   10 December 2009

   Francis Blanchard of France, who served as Director-General of the International Labour Office during the turbulent and transitional years 1974 to 1989, died on Wednesday, 9 December 2009 at the age of 93.

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   Haiti: From Storm Recovery to Sustainable Development

   09 December 2009

   In 2004, Hurricane Jeanne swept through the historical port city of Gonaïves in Haiti, sending walls of water and mud down the surrounding slopes and changing the face of the city forever. A project managed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) has been helping local residents organize themselves to build erosion control networks to protect the city from future mudslides and heavy run-off. ILO TV reports.

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   Serbia: Employment of People with Disabilities

   03 December 2009

   Until recently, people with disabilities in Serbia faced many barriers to decent work opportunities. When the Balkan country passed a disability law in 2009, the International Labour Organization created a pilot project to sensitize 100 companies about the employment of people with disabilities. The ILO was able to respond quickly, thanks to its “Regular Budget Supplementary Account” (RBSA) - a fund based on voluntary contributions from Member States. It was created in 2008, and has been a critical resource in response to the economic crisis and the need to enhance the ILO’s capacity to promote decent work.

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   Swaziland: Breaking the Stigma of HIV/AIDS at Work

   01 December 2009

   At the supermarket chain, Superspar, a programme for HIV/AIDS education and prevention in the workplace has brought an end to discrimination against staff members living with HIV/AIDS. ILO TV reports from Swaziland.

September 2009

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   India: Puppets Versus Child Labour

   28 September 2009

   The art of puppetry has a profound place in India’s deep tradition of storytelling. For centuries, puppets have not only been used to entertain, but to educate, inspire, and even heal the sick and the disabled. Now this ancient Indian art form is being used in a new way, to fight the plague of child labour in India.

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   India: Finding a Voice in the Silk Industry

   28 September 2009

   When families have no source of immediate income, often the only answer the families seem to have is sending their children to work. And just as the parents themselves were sent to work when they were young, the plague of child labour passes on from one generation to another. But in India’s silk industry, now it is the mothers who are breaking the cycle of child labour. At the same time, thanks to a remarkably successful initiative, the mothers of the silk industry are finding their own voices; in their families, in their communities, and in changing society for the better.

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   India: Fighting Child Labour with Street Plays

   28 September 2009

   Like every complex problem, the causes of child labour are many: social, economic, cultural, and political factors all play a role. But perhaps the best way to help people understand and do something about the plague of child labour is to reach out to them on their own terms, using stories taken from real life. In India, this unique approach is having remarkable results, and it is playing out on the streets of hundreds of villages.