Videos and Photos

2009

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    Indian employers’ delegate at Global Jobs Summit calls for effective international regulatory consensus

    16 June 2009

    A leading Indian businessman said in order to tackle the global jobs crisis and coordinate development cooperation, the world would need to work together to arrive at regulatory consensus. Mr Yogendra Kr. Modi, Indian Advisor and Substitute Employers Delegate to the International Labour Conference, and Member of the ILO Governing Body, made the comments during a panel discussion at the ILC’s Global Jobs Summit in Geneva.

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    India's poorest workers get organized (SEWA)

    03 June 2009

    Hundreds of millions of women worldwide work in the so-called informal sector (e.g. a job without regular income and benefits). Many women are trapped in this sector because they lack education, skills, or have other commitments which prevent full-time or regular work. In India nine out of ten working women are in informal work – with no rights, medical insurance, contract, or guaranteed minimum consequently, they and their families remain trapped in poverty. But in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, Ella Bhatt, a woman who has earned the nickname of "the gentle revolutionary", has set up a unique organization – the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA). SEWA has not only helped thousands find a way out of the poverty trap, it has given them access to financial services, and a way of making themselves heard by Government.

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    India’s female taxi drivers

    03 June 2009

    For millions of women going out to work is a necessary. But earning a living can be a dangerous business if you are poor and female, and live in India. Many jobs carry a very high risk of accidents, sickness or assault. This issue – women's right to work safely – is currently being highlighted by a global gender campaign, organized by the International Labour Organization – the UN agency dealing with workplace issues. (The Campaign culminates with a debate in June at an international conference in Geneva). In India, some women have decided to look for solutions themselves, by training as Delhi's first female taxi drivers and offering a service to working women.

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    Barefoot solar engineers

    03 June 2009

    Everyone's affected by climate change, but women are increasingly being seen as more vulnerable than men because they represent the majority of the world's poor and are proportionally more dependent on threatened natural resources. In India's Rajasthan desert some of the region's poorest are being trained as "barefoot solar engineers" so putting these ideas into practice and showing how the new idea of "green jobs" can also help alleviate poverty.

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    International Labour Conference (ILC) 2009: Interview with Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Minister of Labour and Employment and Expatriates, Bangladesh

    02 June 2009

    Delegates to the International Labour Conference (ILC) were asked to give their views on the importance of decent work and the role of the Global Jobs Pact in ensuring that employment-friendly measures were incorporated into national responses to the global economic and jobs crisis.

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    International Labour Conference (ILC) 2009: Interview with Brent Wilton, Deputy Secretary-General, International Organisation of Employers

    02 June 2009

    Delegates to the International Labour Conference (ILC) were asked to give their views on the importance of decent work and the role of the Global Jobs Pact in ensuring that employment-friendly measures were incorporated into national responses to the global economic and jobs crisis.

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    International Labour Conference (ILC) 2009: Interview with Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation

    02 June 2009

    Delegates to the International Labour Conference (ILC) were asked to give their views on the importance of decent work and the role of the Global Jobs Pact in ensuring that employment-friendly measures were incorporated into national responses to the global economic and jobs crisis.

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    International Labour Conference (ILC) 2009: Interview with Jose Luis Guterres, Timor-Leste

    02 June 2009

    Delegates to the International Labour Conference (ILC) were asked to give their views on the importance of decent work and the role of the Global Jobs Pact in ensuring that employment-friendly measures were incorporated into national responses to the global economic and jobs crisis.

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    International Labour Conference (ILC) 2009: Interview with Muhaimin Iskandar, Minister of Manpower and Transmigration, Indonesia

    02 June 2009

    Delegates to the International Labour Conference (ILC) were asked to give their views on the importance of decent work and the role of the Global Jobs Pact in ensuring that employment-friendly measures were incorporated into national responses to the global economic and jobs crisis.

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    International Labour Conference (ILC) 2009: Interview with Rekson Silaban, Indonesia

    02 June 2009

    Delegates to the International Labour Conference (ILC) were asked to give their views on the importance of decent work and the role of the Global Jobs Pact in ensuring that employment-friendly measures were incorporated into national responses to the global economic and jobs crisis.