Videos (ILO-Brussels)

A new chance at employment for Syrian refugees in Jordan

19 March 2018

Syrians forced to leave their country because of the war, now living in refugee camps in Jordan, have a new chance at employment. It's thanks to a job fair at an ILO employment centre for refugees, funded by the European Union.

ILO Regional Director for Africa talks about the Africa-Europe relationship

05 December 2017

Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon highlights the universal nature of international labour standards and Sustainable Development Goals in an interview with France 24

Guy Ryder speaks at launch of EU Pillar of Social Rights

01 December 2017

The ILO Director-General talks about the importance of decent work as he addresses EU leaders at a high-level seminar at the EU Social Summit

How Better Work and SCORE make a difference in the supply chains

07 June 2017

Dan Rees, Director of Better Work, and Michael Elkin, Chief Technical Adviser of SCORE, explain how these programmes create decent jobs in the supply chains.

Guy Ryder: "The future of work is not determined, we can shape it."

03 July 2016

ILO Director-General Guy Ryder discusses policies to shape the future of work on the occasion of a conference organized by ETUI and ETUC in Brussels on 27-29 June 2016, entitled “Shaping the new world of work”.

Migration in Italy: What are the Unions' expectations?

16 June 2015

The following is an interview with Silvana Cappuccio from The Italian General Confederation of Labour (CIGL), who expresses her views about Unions' expectations to organize and protect the migrant workers in Italy. Ms. Cappuccio also explains how the ILO can work with Unions to facilitate the implementation of new labour standard to facilitate the transition from informal to formal economy.

Austria: Precarization of jobs and widening of informal economy

08 June 2015

The transition from informal to formal economy is one of the topics of discussion at the 104th International Labour Conference which is being held from 1st to 13 June 2015 in Geneva. The following is an interview with Walter Sauer from the Austrian Confederation of Trade Unions who expresses his views about the precarization of jobs and the widening of informal economy in Austria.

Right to strike: What are the experiences from the United Kingdom?

31 March 2015

The right to strike is one of the topics of discussion at the 323rd session of the ILO Governing Body, which was held in Geneva from 12 to 27 March 2015. In this interview, Sam Gurney, Director of strategy of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) explains the challenges related to right to strike in Europe. Mr. Gurney also highlights the experiences from the United Kingdom on the right to strike.