Video and audio stories
2018
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Why do we see less women in India’s workforce?
06 March 2018
Poor jobs, less decision making powers, increased care burden, unfair treatment – these are still everyday realities for scores of women in employment. And in India, the participation of women in the labour is steadily declining.
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TB: Let’s work on it
22 January 2018
The video captures the current TB scenario in India and how the disease impacts incomes and the economy at large.
2017
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Partnerships, mobility of academia, tapping into diaspora network
14 December 2017
Stakeholder voices on enhancing migration and mobility between EU and India.
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How International labour standards help ensure rights of all workers
23 October 2017
Miranda Fajerman, Specialist on International Labour Standards calls on legislative responses and political commitment to tackle structural discrimination and inequality.
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Why we must achieve a common standard for all workers
06 October 2017
Gabriel Bordado, Senior Skills Specialist speaks about the challenges and the ways to ensure sustainable skills development in the South Asia region.
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How can good data help measure development goals?
03 October 2017
Labour Statistician Specialist Jean-Marie Hakizimana, talks about how availability of reliable data is critical to measure developmental goals.
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Everyone has a right to social protection
29 September 2017
Markus Ruck, Senior Specialist on Social Security talks of the challenges in extending social security to workers in South Asia and ways to overcome them.
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How sustainable wage policies can address inequality
29 September 2017
Xavier Estupinan, Wage Specialist explains how sustainable wage policies help improve real wages and reduce inequality.
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Technical cooperation, research pivotal to advance dialogue
26 September 2017
Stakeholder voices on enhancing migration and mobility between EU and India.
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Align qualification frameworks to facilitate labour mobility
26 September 2017
Stakeholder voices on enhancing migration and mobility between EU and India.
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Training boosts local employment and empowerment
06 September 2017
Deborah Greenfield, ILO Deputy Director-General, visits a training centre in Chhattisgarh where rural youth are learning concepts of civil engineering to become barefoot technicians.
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Technical knowledge and awareness, a must
06 September 2017
Khela Ram, a trainee barefoot technician, says that technical knowledge and awareness of government schemes relating to rural development is a dire need in his community.
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I feel empowered and my mindset has changed
06 September 2017
Radhika Sahu says that the BFT training has helped her access opportunities and feel empowered.
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Training young people to fulfil real needs in the rural economy
04 September 2017
Deborah Greenfield, ILO Deputy Director-General, speaks about how training rural youth to become barefoot technicians has helped provide solutions to local challenges in maintaining rural works and in employment generation.
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Creating opportunities for young rural women in India
04 September 2017
Deborah Greenfield, ILO Deputy Director-General, talks about how young rural women are breaking conventional gender norms by training to become barefoot technicians.
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Decent work for domestic workers
25 August 2017
Domestic workers often face very low wages, long hours, and no guaranteed weekly rest days. At times they are also vulnerable to physical, mental and sexual abuse or restrictions on freedom of movement.
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Training is paramount to access the overseas market
13 July 2017
Shameem Ahmed Noman speaks about the critical role that training centers play for migrant workers and the need to expand them in a country like Bangladesh.
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Skilling workers is key to remittance flow and better job prospects overseas
13 July 2017
Jabed Ahmed speaks about why skilling plays a critical role for migrating workers from Bangladesh.
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Hon’ble Minister Labour & Employment ,Bandaru Dattatreya speaks about India’s ratification of child labour conventions
15 June 2017
Bandaru Dattatreya, Minister of Labour & Employment, during the 106th International Labour Conference in Geneva, speaks on India’s historic ratification of fundamental ILO conventions on child labour.
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"This should be the last generation witnessing child labour"
13 June 2017
Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi congratulates the ILO and the government of India on its ratification of ILO conventions 138 and 182 on child labour.