Video News Releases

2008 

• Working Out of Financial Crisis in Argentina -
  10 July 2008 - In December 2001 Argentina was thrown into the worst financial crisis of its history. In response to the massive unemployment that ensued, the International Labour Organization is working with the government to adapt job training to meet the needs of emerging sectors, like Argentina’s tourism industry.
• Road-Building for a New Liberia -
  30 June 2008 - After years of conflict, Liberia is on a new path to recovery. A wide array of multi-lateral agencies, including the International Labour Organization are on the scene to help. These efforts include the building of a road, which will link villages in Mount Barclay to the main market town. ...
• Moroccan Circus School Replaces Child Labour with Education -
  30 June 2008 - A circus school on the coast of Morocco is one innovative community effort among many to get children out of work and into school. Girls like El Bouchtaouia, who use to work as a domestic labourer, are now getting a unique chance at an education and a better life.
  • Decent childhoods: Educate both girls and boys
• Cameroon: The Challenge to Make Chocolate Child Labour Free -
  11 June 2008 - There are over a quarter of a million children who work in the cocoa plantations of West Africa. It's hazardous work, which exposes children to highly toxic pesticides. ILO TV reports from Cameroon, where the International Labour Organization has been working to eliminate child labour from cocoa production and help children return to school.
  • World Day Against Child Labour 2008 - Education: The right response to child labour
• Uganda: ENHAS Airport Ground Handlers -
  06 June 2008 - With one of the best airport safety records in Africa, collective bargaining with the transport union and investment in staff training has paid off for Uganda’s Entebbe Airport ground handlers ENHAS.
• New Skills and New Faces Revive Argentina’s Naval Industry -
  05 June 2008 - South of Buenos Aires is Mar del Plata, a popular seaside resort and one of Argentina’s major ports. For years Mar del Plata had an important ship-building industry, but when the government liberalised the economy in the 1990s most of the ship-yards were forced to downsize or close down. ...
• A Banker for Sri Lankan Women: Rupa Manel Silva -
  02 April 2008 - A new report from the International Labour Organization shows that economic empowerment for women is vital for equal participation of women and men in the labour market and equal access to obtaining decent work. In Sri Lanka, Rupa Manel Silva is leading the way with a bank run by women for women.
• Out of Informality – Ghana’s Way to Decent Work -
  02 April 2008 - In Ghana, local authorities are teaming up with informal workers to find solutions for reducing poverty and bringing decent work opportunities to their communities. It’s a new initiative that has been so successful in the two areas where it’s been trialed, that it’s going to be rolled out across Ghana in the months to come. ILO TV reports.
• Global economic turbulence to spur unemployment increase, says new ILO report -
  24 January 2008 - The new ILO Global Employment Trends 2008 report says market turmoil, rising oil prices and credit uncertainty could leave 5 million more unemployed this year.

2007 

• International Migrants Day - ILO TV reports from Dublin, Ireland where some migrants have fared better than others. -
  17 December 2007 - After centuries of poverty and emigration, Ireland has emerged as a Celtic Tiger with a booming economy. New jobs in construction, hotels, restaurants and in agriculture have been filled by migrant workers, but as ILO TV reports from Dublin, some have fared better than others.