Video News Releases

2007 

• Actress Marlee Matlin, "Leading Lady" for People With Disabilities -
  02 December 2007 - Actress Marlee Matlin is best known for playing characters that don't let disabilities get in the way. It's a role she's been playing most of her life.
  • International Day of Disabled Persons – 3 December 2007
• World AIDS Day : Fighting AIDS on Commercial Farms in Zambia -
  29 November 2007 - Whether it’s organising a football match or marching through the streets, Nurse Janet Mvula and a team of trained farm workers, called peer educators, are taking their AIDS awareness work beyond their workplace at York Farm to the local community.
• Uganda: Maternity leave brings protection to women security guards and their employer -
  17 October 2007 - All African women work. Very few women work in formal workplaces. Even fewer expect to keep their job when they have a baby, much less get maternity leave. But that is not the case for a group of women security guards in Uganda. As ILO TV reports, in an industry where it's a surprise to find women at work, both workers and employer are finding advantages in unionization and maternity leave.
• Informal economy work sees more working hours for men, less for women -
  08 June 2007 - A new report from the ILO says that one in five workers worldwide work excessively long hours, up to 48 a week, often to merely make ends meet. The study also says women work shorter hours than men, most likely because they bear the brunt of responsibility for the unpaid work of taking care of the family and household.
• Afghanistan: Women Entrepreneurs -
  26 March 2007 - More than two decades of conflict have crippled Afghanistan’s economy. But some Afghan women are taking their handicraft skills to the market and playing an active role in the country’s reconstruction and development as ILO TV reports:
• Tanzania: Sowing the Seeds of Women's Rights -
  17 March 2007 - Harvesting flowers for Valentine's Day is not always a bed of roses for those who work in the cut flower industry, but in Tanzania, employers and unions are working together to improve conditions on commercial flower farms as ILO TV reports for CNN World Report.
• Burkina Faso: A New Life for Trafficked Children -
  15 March 2007 - In Burkina Faso, the focus is on bus stations and bus drivers to help prevent children from being trafficked. Rescued children are given apprenticeships to ensure they won't be trafficked again.
• Marinalva: Mobile squad labour inspector -
  11 March 2007 - In Brazil, labour inspectors are dispatched in mobile units to rescue victims of forced labour and one veteran in the force also happens to be a woman as ILO TV reports for CNN World Report.
• ILO Understanding with Myanmar -
  27 February 2007 - BBC World TV's "Asia Today" talks to ILO Executive Director Kari Tapiola about the Understanding agreed to with Myanmar which will enable alleged victims of forced labour to seek redress.
• Sowing The Seeds Of Women’s Rights -
  09 February 2007 - The cut flower industry in Tanzania and across East Africa is booming. Trade unionist Phillipina Mosha is training workers in the cut flower business to understand their labour rights, promote gender equality and improve safety and health in the workplace.