September 2003

1. Publication

   ILO Recommendation 193 one year after: The revival of the cooperative idea

   01 September 2003

   This June marked the first anniversary of the ILO's initiative to encourage the idea of cooperative business. ILO Recommendation 193, for the Promotion of Cooperatives, was formally adopted last year at the International Labour Conference. In the months since, staff in the ILO COOP team have worked with governments and coop bodies to help translate the Recommendation into practice at the national level. Journalist Andrew Bibby reports on the results of their work.

July 2003

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   Video

   Adidas in Indonesia

   25 July 2003

   World sportswear giant Adidas has been working with the PT Dada factory in Indonesia amid concern about conditions in Asian garment factories in the face of increasing globalization. The company is working with the International Labour Organization to improve working conditions in the factory has become a model in the region of good labour-management relations. ILO TV has the details.

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   Video

   MICROHEALTH INSURANCE IN SENEGAL

   09 July 2003

   The fishing industry in West Africa is a high-risk and accident-prone business yet until recently, few people had access to health insurance. But fishermen have taken to casting their own safety nets by creating small, community-based health schemes. And the idea has struck a chord with other groups as well. ILO TV explains.

June 2003

1. Video

   ILO Director-General Juan Somavia addresses Press Conference in Geneva

   19 June 2003

   Director-General Juan Somavia held a press conference at the close of the International Labour Conference in which he summarized the highlights of the meeting.

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   Video

   DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ROMA

   18 June 2003

   A new report on discrimination in the workplace has found that the highest unemployment rates in the whole of Europe are among the Roma people, also known as Gypsies. The report, by the International Labour Organization, says that in some countries up to 90 per cent of Roma people of working age are jobless. ILO TV has the details.

3. Video

   Renaître de ses cendres (PAL)

   11 June 2003

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   Video

   SPANISH STRAWBERRIES

   04 June 2003

   For years, Moroccans supplied the cheap labour for Spain's booming harvest of fruits and vegetables found throughout the markets of Europe and North America. But a new form of discrimination is making even these low-paid jobs hard to come by. ILO TV reports.

5. Publication

   In today's world, journalists face greater dangers

   01 June 2003

   Embedded, but not immune: along with today’s faster pace of war and conflict, comes faster news - and sometimes, faster injury and death. Lee Woodyear, a former Human Rights Officer for the International Federation of Journalists and a freelance journalist, examines how bringing today’s news into living rooms and computer screens gets ever more dangerous, and what some organizations are doing about it

6. Publication

   ILO: Work hazards kill millions, cost billions

   01 June 2003

   Workers, employers and governments are marking the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. In a new report, the ILO says the annual cost to the global economy is a staggering 1.25 thousand billion (trillion). This report outlines the occupational safety and health crisis and explains how it can be dealt with.

7. Publication

   IT outsourcing goes global

   01 June 2003

   Many information technology jobs have been shifted to lower-cost countries, and may soon migrate onwards to regions offering even cheaper labour. Journalist Andrew Bibby examines how, for the first time, white-collar staff are among those affected by job exports