Videos
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Making water work for all
24 August 2015
Professor Jayati Ghosh of Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, explains how recognizing and formalizing work in water benefits workers and improves economic growth.
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Photojournalist Ismail Ferdous talks about his exhibition on labour issues
10 July 2015
The ILO hosted an exhibition by Bangladeshi photojournalist Ismail Ferdous to highlight the issues raised during the conference Regulating for Decent Work from 8-10 July 2015. In this interview, the artist talks about his exhibition “So we Exist”, his covering of the Rana Plaza factory collapse and the role of the arts in raising the voice and visibility of workers in the shadows.
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Stephanie Barrientos on global supply chains
10 July 2015
Stephanie Barrientos, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, discusses the role of the ILO and global alliances in improving working conditions in global supply chains.
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Damian Grimshaw on the rise of precarious work
10 July 2015
Damian Grimshaw, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, discusses possible ways to overcome the concentration of precarious employment in specific sectors, including social dialogue between government and the social partners.
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The Job Crisis in the Eurozone
11 July 2012
Austerity policies designed to cut debt in the Eurozone are resulting in a steady rise in unemployment, prolonging and deepening the crisis in the single currency area, according to a report from the ILO, "Eurozone job crisis: trends and policies responses". Unemployment in the Eurozone could reach almost 22 million over the next four years, unless appropriate measures are taken to boost growth and promote job creation.
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ILO Director General Visits "Occupy Wall Street"
27 October 2011
ILO Director General Juan Somavia went to Zuccotti Park in the financial district of Manhattan, to have a first-hand look and listen to the people of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City.
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Working Together to Boost Youth Employment in Serbia
31 December 2010
Serbia was hit hard by the global economic crisis, particularly its young people, who are living a “crisis within the crisis”. Often what they learned in school doesn’t match what employers are looking for, making it hard for them to find work. It’s worse for young people who didn’t do well in school, or dropped out. But in Serbia, the government, trade unions and employers, working together, have designed new policy interventions to give young people, especially those with low levels of education, a chance to find a decent job and keep it.
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Argentina’s Response to Economic Crisis Through Social Protection
16 November 2010
Record unemployment is one of the consequences of the global economic crisis, but in Argentina, fewer jobs were lost in the crisis than in many other countries. A new report from the ILO found that’s because Argentina learned some lessons from a bitter experience in the past, and protected jobs when hard times came around again.
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Labour Market Recession Threatens Social Cohesion
30 September 2010
The global economy is recovering but according to a report from the ILO, a labour market recession looms on the horizon if measures are not taken to ensure a job-rich recovery and a more equitable distribution of the gains from economic growth.