Video News Releases

2005 

• MOBILE BEAUTICIANS IN INDIA -
  13 October 2005 - A beauty service at home is a growing trend among New Delhi’s fashion-conscious women. But the city’s mobile beauticians are not only a convenience for busy urban women, but a way for the city’s enormous numbers of urban poor to increase their income. ILO TV explains.
• Back to work in Banda Aceh - a midyear look -
  15 July 2005 - Six months after the tsunami, the International Labour Organization was putting people back to work, creating new businesses from the remains of former livelihoods.
• JAMAICA YOUTH EMPLOYMENT -
  15 July 2005 - The International Labour Organization has found that nearly half of the world’s unemployed are under the age of 24. In Jamaica, the National Training Agency, known as HEART, gives young people the skills they need. ILO TV profiles the manager of a hotel school, who not so long ago was a trainee herself.
• Forced labour in Florida -
  08 July 2005 - ILO TV looks at forced labour and an historic agreement to improve conditions in the tomato-picking industry in Florida.
• FIGHTING TRAFFICKING IN THAILAND -
  07 July 2005 - Many victims of trafficking leave home voluntarily in a desperate search for work, only to find themselves exploited. In the hills of Northern Thailand, efforts are being made to offer women and children alternative sources of income to encourage them to stay at home. ILO TV reports on how an anti- trafficking programme is supporting the development of eco-tourism.
• UKRAINE: CHILD LABOUR IN MINING -
  07 July 2005 - In Ukraine, most legally-operated coal mines closed down following the break-up of the Soviet Union. Yet many families still dig for coal in illegal mines and children are expected to work, too. The International Labour Organization is working together with trade unions and the government to put an end to child labour and create new jobs.
• EXPLOITATION IN GERMAN MEAT INDUSTRY -
  07 July 2005 - An ILO study detailed 42 cases of forced labour in Germany, where migrant workers in particular find themselves tricked into situations where they are forced to work for low pay -- or no pay. ILO TV reports from Germany on a new union set up especially for workers away from home.
• Trafficking Survivor in Japan -
  30 June 2005 - ILO TV looks at the problem of trafficking for sexual exploitation in Japan and what is being done to stop it.
• MAKING A LIVING UNDER THE SUN IN KENYA -
  29 June 2005 - More than 90 per cent of all jobs created in Africa are in the informal sector, many of them in small open-air workshops. In Kenya, this kind of business is known as jua kali, or “fierce sun” and now well-established employers are working together with the ILO to link up with the informal sector to raise quality and working conditions.
• Children Exploited in Mongolian Gold Rush -
  27 June 2005 - Many working in makeshift Mongolian gold mines are children whose families seek a way out of poverty. The ILO is trying to remove these children from one of the most hazardous jobs in the world.