Photos and videos on labour migration
April 2009
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Maid in Lebanon
15 April 2009
Driven by extreme poverty in their home countries, thousands of female migrant workers go each year to the Arab States in order to earn enough money to support their families. What they find there is sometimes not what they expected. A film directed by Carol Mansour and funded by Caritas Sweden, the Netherlands Embassy in Beirut and the ILO depicts the gamble these women take when they decide to leave their families and go to work in Lebanon.
December 2008
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Migrant Workers Today, An Interview With Ibrahim Awad
17 December 2008
ILO TV interviews Ibrahim Awad, Director of the ILO's International Migration Programme, on the significance of International Migrants Day and the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
November 2007
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Interview with Ibrahim Awad, ILO Director of the International Migration Programme, on a rights-based approach to managing migration
20 November 2007
May 2006
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Indonesian Domestic Workers
15 May 2006
Every year nearly 400,000 domestic workers leave Indonesia to work abroad. For most the experience is positive, allowing them to earn many times what they would earn at home. Hidden from public view in private homes however, domestic workers can be targets of exploitation and abuse as ILO TV reports.