Videos

  1. Gender and Rural Employment

    Decent Work for a Life-Time of Gender Equality

    03 June 2009

    The International Labour Organization's campaign to promote gender equality highlights its contributions to advancing gender equality in the world of work and to raising awareness on the need to overcome existing barriers for women and men as a main driver for sustainable development. With the twelve themes of the campaign, key decent work issues are reinforced through a gender lens, demonstrating how various issues may affect women and men differently in their access to rights, employment, social protection and social dialogue.

  2. Video

    Speech given by ILO Director-General Juan Somavia during the opening day of the International Labour Conference (video file)

    03 June 2009

  3. Video

    Speech given by Ms. Petra Ulshoefer, ILO Regional Director for Europe, during the opening day of the International Labour Conference (video file)

    03 June 2009

  4. Video

    Speech given by Ms. Sachiko Yamamoto, ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, during the opening day of the International Labour Conference (video file)

    03 June 2009

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    Speech given by Mr. Jean Maninat, ILO Regional Director for Americas, during the opening day of the International Labour Conference (video file)

    03 June 2009

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    Speech given by Mr. Charles Dan, ILO Regional Director for Africa, during the opening day of the International Labour Conference (video file)

    03 June 2009

  7. 98th International Labour Conference

    ILO Director-General Juan Somavia opening remarks to the ILC

    03 June 2009

    A six to eight year employment and social protection crisis may ensue if measures are not urgently taken now to avert it, according to ILO Director-General Juan Somavia in his opening remarks to the 98th International Labour Conference. He called on delegates to adopt a "Global Jobs Pact" to remedy a lag in employment recovery.

  8. Gender and Rural Employment

    The Gender Dimensions of Agricultural and Rural Employment: Differentiated Pathways Out of Poverty

    13 May 2009

    FAO, IFAD and ILO organized a three-day technical expert workshop which was held in Rome, from 31 March to 2 April 2009. The workshop focused on the gaps, trends and current research in gender dismensions of agricultural employment. By ensuring rights, employment, social protection and social dialogue, Decent Work can be a means to achieve equitable, inclusive and sustainable development in rural areas where the majority of the world's poor live. Investing in gender equality in agriculture and rural employment not only makes economic sense but is also important for social justice.

  9. Combatting human trafficking

    Labour Inspection in Italy by an elite unit of the Carabinieri and the Ministry of Labour

    12 May 2009

    This elite unit monitors the application of labour law and social security to combat illegal and disguised employment, exploitation of labour in “sweatshops”, trafficking in human beings and works towards the elimination of inhuman working conditions, including slavery.

  10. Press conference

    Forced Labour report cites opportunity cost of coercion

    12 May 2009

    Forced Labour costs USD 20 billion per year - Roger Plant, Head of the ILO's Special Action Programme to combat Forced Labour, explains the financial as well as moral reasons why governments throughout the world must crack down on forced labour.

  11. Interview

    In the face of economic crisis, safe and healthy workplaces more important than ever

    28 April 2009

    The financial and economic crisis is putting added pressure on safety and health at the workplace, but as Sameera Al Tujairi, Director of the ILO's Safety and Health at the Workplace program (SafeWork) explains, now is the time to be even more vigilant about workplace safety.

  12. ILO 90th anniversary

    The ILO and the Quest for Social Justice

    20 April 2009

    Watch 90 years of ILO history presented in a moving scrapbook of photos, film, sound and music showing the Organization's role in promoting social justice and Decent Work within the historical, political and cultural contexts of each decade.

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    ILO Director-General's statement on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the ILO

    17 April 2009

  14. High-Level Tripartite Meeting

    IMF Managing-Director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn addresses ILO’s Governing Body on responses to the current global financial and economic crisis

    23 March 2009

    The Director of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn has called for increased cooperation between the IMF and the International Labour Organization, saying that coordination between multilateral institutions was crucial in addressing the global economic crisis. He was speaking at a high level meeting of the ILO in Geneva.

  15. Lecture

    Nobel prize-winning economist, Professor Joseph Stiglitz addresses Governing Body

    13 March 2009

    Nobel prize-winning economist, Professor Joseph Stiglitz, addressed a special sitting of the Governing Body on the impact of the global financial and economic crisis. He was presented with the 2008 ILO Decent Work Research Prize by ILO Director-General, Juan Somavia, who praised his call for a more balanced globalization and stronger regulation of financial markets.

  16. Meeting

    Lord Mark Malloch Brown, United Kingdom Minister for the United Nations at the ILO

    02 March 2009

    Lord Mark Malloch Brown, United Kingdom Minister for the United Nations discusses preparations for the London Summit on Stability, Growth and Jobs during his visit to the ILO.

  17. Video

    Social Justice Under Threat?

    20 February 2009

    February 20 2009 marked the first World Day of Social Justice was celebrated at the ILO's Geneva headquarters with a panel discussion about "The Crisis: Threat or Opportunity for Social Justice?". Speakers included ILO Director-General Juan Somavia, Khalid Janahi (Ithmaar Bank), Anita Normark (Building and Wood Workers' International), Rick Samans (World Economic Forum), Jack Lowe (BlueOrchard), Karen Tse (International Bridges to Justice) and Raymond Torres (Director of the ILO's International Institute for Labour Studies) in an animated debate moderated by ILO Director of Communication Zohreh Tabatabai.

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    ILO Director-General Juan Somavia praises Portuguese pastry shop on equal pay policy

    13 February 2009

    ILO Director-General, Juan Somavia, visits one of Lisbon's oldest restaurants to see the organisation's equal pay for equal work policy in action. The Pasteis de Belem is one of 40 Portuguese restaurants that has implemented pay equity solutions for its male and female workers, using an innovative job evaluation method developed by local employers associations, trade unions and the ILO. It provides a detailed profile of workers skills combined with the demands of the job, including physical hazards and stress.

  19. Global employment trends

    Facing the jobs crisis, an interview with the ILO Director-General

    28 January 2009

    ILO TV interviews Juan Somavia, the ILO Director-General, about the Global Employment Trends 2009 report published today. "The ILO message is realistic, not alarmist. We are now facing a global jobs crisis. Many governments are aware and acting, but more decisive and coordinated international action is needed to avert a global social recession," says Mr. Somavia.

  20. Global employment trends

    The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Developing Economies

    28 January 2009

    The global economic crisis is expected to lead to a dramatic increase in the number of people joining the ranks of the unemployed, working poor and those in vulnerable employment, the International Labour Office (ILO) says in its annual Global Employment Trends report.