Video News Releases

2005 

• Global Report on forced labour -
  11 May 2005 - Roger Plant discusses the Global Report on forced labour on the BBC.
• Global Report on forced labour -
  11 May 2005 - CNN's World Business Today interviews Roger Plant on the release of a new ILO Global Report on forced labour.
• MIGRANT WORKERS IN RUSSIA -
  07 May 2005 - In the former Soviet Union, movement of workers was strictly controlled. But today’s Russia is seeing a growing phenomenon of labour migration, especially from some of the poorest former Soviet republics. But as ILO TV finds out, the life of a migrant worker is not an easy one.
• GERMANY: MIGRANT WORKERS FIGHT FOR RIGHTS -
  05 May 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.
• SEX TRAFFICKING SURVIVORS IN JAPAN -
  05 May 2005 - The Japanese government has brought in new rules to crack down on entertainment visas which have been widely used to bring women into the country to work in the sex industry. Tens of thousands of foreign women work in bars and clubs in Japan, some of them against their will, according to a report by the International Labour Organization.
• Migrant workers in Russia -
  16 April 2005 - ILO TV reports on migrant workers from Tajikistan who work in the construction industry in Russia.
• Pension reform in the United Kingdom -
  28 February 2005 - An ILO TV report looks at pension reform in the United Kingdom.
• 7th European Regional Meeting - Pension reform -
  21 February 2005 - Euronews reports on pension reform in Hungary during the 7th European Regional Meeting in Budapest.
• 7th ILO European Regional Meeting - Budapest, Hungary -
  18 February 2005 - Managing transitions: Pensions
• 7th ILO European Regional Meeting - Budapest, Hungary -
  18 February 2005 - Managing transitions: Flexicurity