Videos on forced labour
June 2015
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Video: Kailash Satyarthi calls on ILO constituents to help make child labour history
11 June 2015
Nobel Peace Laureate, Kailash Satyarthi calls for immediate action on climate change and a child-friendly approach to disaster management, at a special sitting of the International Labour Conference. (Closed captions available)
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Listen: Day 9 - “Action on climate change is action for growth, justice and labor rights” says French President Francois Hollande
11 June 2015
Heads of state and Nobel laureate Kailash call for action on climate change at World of Work Summit hosted by the 104th International Labour Conference in Geneva.
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Listen: Day 6 - 50 for Freedom gears up to end forced labour
08 June 2015
The panel symbolizing support for the 50 for Freedom campaign to end modern slavery continues to fill up with signatures and committees are getting closer to drafting final conclusions on world of work issues.
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Listen: Day 5 - Niger signs protocol to stop modern slavery plus an ILC side event on migration
05 June 2015
Niger becomes first to sign up to an end to modern slavery and a high-level side event on migration calls for international community to provide regular and safe migration to meet migrants’ rights and labour market needs
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Listen: "There is no easy fix” to the migration crisis
05 June 2015
ILO Deputy-Director Sandra Polaski at ILC Migration side event: “We must focus on systems of governance that provide regular and safe migration to meet migrants’ rights and labour market needs.
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Listen: Niger labour minister signs up to stop modern slavery
05 June 2015
Niger has ratified the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930. The Protocol brings the existing convention into the modern era, with new provisions on prevention, protection and victims’ access to remedies.
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Slideshow: Signing up to end modern slavery
01 June 2015
ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, was joined by delegates to the International Labour Conference, in signing a signature panel symbolizing support for the 50 for Freedom campaign to end modern slavery. The campaign has the goal of encouraging 50 member States to ratify, by 2018, the Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention.
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Video: Signing up to end modern slavery
01 June 2015
ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, was joined by delegates to the International Labour Conference, in signing a signature panel symbolizing support for the 50 for Freedom campaign to end modern slavery. The campaign has the goal of encouraging 50 member States to ratify, by 2018, the Protocol to the Forced Labour Convention. (Closed Captions available)
April 2015
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Counting the cost of forced labour
13 April 2015
An estimated 21 million people are in forced labour and generate around USD 150 billion of illicit profits every year, according to Beate Andrees, head of the ILO's Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour. In her interview on Al Jazeera's "Counting the Cost", Andrees said more needs to be done to address the root causes of forced labour and human trafficking through greater political commitment and social movements.
February 2015
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Lured by a job, trapped in forced labour
10 February 2015
In search of a job to support his family, a man accepts an offer from a recruiter and signs a contract for what looks like a good job with decent wages. Once at destination, the reality is very different.