Video News Releases

2005 

• 7th ILO European Regional Meeting - Budapest, Hungary -
  18 February 2005 - Managing transitions: Migration
• 7th ILO European Regional Meeting - Budapest, Hungary -
  17 February 2005 - Managing transitions: Youth
• 7th European Regional Meeting - Migration -
  14 February 2005 - Euronews covers the 7th European Regional Meeting in Budapest and talks to Patrick Taran about migration.
• PENSION REFORM IN THE U.K -
  31 January 2005 - As people live longer and birth-rates fall, many countries are facing up to the problem of how to finance pensions for an ageing population. In the United Kingdom, a Pensions Commission reported on what the problems are and how the government could tackle the situation. This report from ILO TV.
• SRI LANKA REBUILDS AFTER THE TSUNAMI -
  20 January 2005 - As well as claiming countless lives, the Asian tsunami left behind devastated economies in its wake. The International Labour Organization’s JobsNet project assesses the impact on employment, identifying pressing needs for repair of workplaces and reconstruction. ILO TV sent this report from Sri Lanka.
• Rapid needs assessment survey, Sri Lanka -
  19 January 2005 - In the days immediately after the tsunami, the ILO's JobsNet offices in Sri Lanka provided the only means of communication in many of the affected areas via their internet connection which continued to function when all others failed. Now, as relief in the form of food and shelter pours into the country, survivors are wondering how they will get back to the business of earning a living. The ILO is analysing the results of a rapid needs assessment survey in Sri Lanka that not only will show what jobs were lost, but what survivors need to regain their livelihoods.

2004 

• Women Mechanics of India -
  19 December 2004 - ILO TV highlights women who are learning non-traditional occupations in India for CNN World Report.
• WOMEN MECHANICS IN NEW DELHI -
  08 December 2004 - A new report from the International Labour Office says that despite the fact that more people are employed today than ever before, half the world’s workers live below US$2.00 a day, unable to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. The reason is not for lack of jobs but the lack of productive jobs. ILO TV explains:
• UGANDA AGOA GIRLS -
  03 December 2004 - In Uganda, a parliamentary commission has been investigating events surrounding a strike of more than 200 young women at a foreign-owned textiles factory. The “Agoa girls”, as they have become known, protested outside Parliament about working conditions and their right to join a union. ...
• "A Fair Globalization" -
  19 September 2004 - Richard Roth of CNN's Diplomatic License interviews Director-General Juan Somavia about the event "A Fair Globalization" at the United Nations and the report of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization.