Video News Releases

2005 

• One year after the tsunami -
  16 December 2005 - One year after the Tsunami, the ILO's activities in Thailand have focused on giving survivors a means to rebuild their lives and livelihoods through tourism and sustainable small businesses that draw on natural resources and talent.
• Denmark demonstrates building blocks for flexicurity -
  15 December 2005 - Santa’s elves probably don’t think about job security, but a lot of workers who are facing layoffs may want to know why employees at Danish toymaker Lego don’t worry too much if their jobs are outsourced. It has to do with what the International Labour Office and others call “flexicurity”. ILO TV reports.
• Mobile beauticians in India -
  09 December 2005 - ILO TV reports on how some Indian women are taking matters into their own hands to alleviate urban poverty through a new beauty trend: mobile beauticians.
• On the road, again: Labour-based road building -
  09 December 2005 - When the Tsunami stuck this middle class picturesque fishing community on the north east shore of Sumatra (the wave was reportedly 20 meters high), it wiped out everything in its path up to 2.5 kilometers in land. Nothing remains between the main road and the shoreline but for a few isolated palm trees in this no-mans land. Tens of thousands of people lost there lives and their livelihoods.
• PREVENTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN CHINA -
  07 December 2005 - While China’s economy booms, many workers leave the countryside to make money in the cities or even abroad. The ILO’s Mekong Project to Combat Trafficking aims to raise awareness of the problem and teach about safe migration.
• Visit of former US President Bill Clinton to Banda Aceh, Indonesia -
  30 November 2005 - Former US President Bill Clinton visited several projects run by various agencies of the UN, and spoke briefly with Peter Rademaker of the ILO Jakarata office about the ILO’s employment center and other projects in Banda Aceh.
• PUPPETS SPREAD AIDS MESSAGE IN INDIA -
  24 November 2005 - Raising awareness of HIV/AIDS can be difficult in countries where sex is taboo and literacy rates are low. An Indian community group supported by the International Labour OrganiZation has been reaching out to truck drivers and migrant workers with an entertaining and educational puppet show.
• A WORKING ALTERNATIVE TO DRUGS TRADE IN BOLIVIA -
  16 November 2005 - For many years, the epicentre of drug trafficking activities in Bolivia was in an isolated region called Chapare where the coca leaves were grown and processed. Today, a project to train young people to be entrepreneurs is changing the economic face of the region and creating thousands of new jobs for its youth. This report was prepared by ILO TV.
• AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE -
  14 November 2005 - In Balakot, devastated by the Pakistan earthquake, rebuilding shattered lives began with rebuilding the town. A pilot emergency employment programme run by the International Labour Organization put more than 800 people to work, paying them to clean up the streets and improve living conditions.
• BOLIVIA TRAINS YOUNG BUSINESS RECRUITS -
  14 November 2005 - In Bolivia, where the lack of work and poverty scar the social and economic reality of the country, an army of teachers and professors seek to plant the germ of a business oriented culture within the youth. For the ILO, the promotion of self employment and micro businesses are an integral part of the fight against unemployment. This report was prepared by ILO TV in La Paz.