Video News Releases

2006 

• Furniture industry -
  19 May 2006 - ILO TV and CNN World Report look at the Indonesian teak wood furniture industry as it copes with competition from mass-production.
• Indonesian Domestic Workers -
  15 May 2006 - Every year nearly 400,000 domestic workers leave Indonesia to work abroad. For most the experience is positive, allowing them to earn many times what they would earn at home. Hidden from public view in private homes however, domestic workers can be targets of exploitation and abuse as ILO TV reports.
• Cameroon: AIDS prevention in the workplace -
  15 May 2006 - According to a new ILO Report “Decent work – Safe work – HIV/AIDS”, nine out of ten people living with HIV and AIDS globally are of working age. In Cameroon, aluminium manufacturer, Alucam, has developed a successful AIDS prevention workplace programme as ILO TV reports.
• Peru: Zappatillas Converse -
  12 May 2006 - Peruvian women are using their traditional skills updating a perennial fashion favourite: the Converse hi-top speaker.
• Bolivia Trains young business recruits -
  10 May 2006 - Business training supported by the ILO aims to create a generation of young entrepreneurs in Bolivia.
• Bolivia: Tropic of Chapare -
  05 May 2006 - Training young people to become entrepreneurs is proving to be a strong weapon in the fight against drug trafficking in this region of Bolivia.
• ILO's Global Report on Child Labour -
  04 May 2006 - CNN's "Your World Today" talks to Lee Swepston about the ILO's Global Report on Child Labour.
• France: Food at Work -
  23 March 2006 - Rising levels of obesity in France and other Western countries, means a less healthy, less productive workforce. But at the Peugeot-Citroen factory in Rennes, France, downsizing the workforce has taken on a very different and healthier meaning. ILO TV explains.
• French Woman Boxer -
  05 March 2006 - World light welterweight champion Myriam Lamare is passionate that women have a place in boxing and has several championship belts to prove it. As a professional boxer, she has overcome the gender barriers and earned the titles, but in a profession still dominated by men, she is far from a million-dollar baby. ILO TV explains.
• Migration in Europe -
  09 February 2006 - BBC TV's Nik Gowing talks to Patrick Taran about migration in France the EU.