Videos and Photos
2010
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Video
Indonesia - Domestic Workers: Part 4 Working environment
26 April 2010
As other workers, a domestic workers need to work in a situation where they fully understand and enjoy the respect and fulfilment of their rights; a situation where their duty can be done properly without avoiding respect to their needs as human being. The implementation of a decent working hour, rest time, and other employment aspects would create a good working environment for both domestic worker and his/her employer.
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Video
Indonesia - Domestic Workers: Part 3 Overtime
25 April 2010
This video, through the characters of Mirdalena and Aliyah, gives the example of how an employer respects her domestic worker by providing her over time fee. The employer pays the overtime every time she needs her domestic workers' assistance longer than the regular working hours and on holidays. In the context of Indonesia, and in the absence of working hour regulation for domestic workers as it should be, this video has a message which in line with ILO's role for creating decent work for all with regard to overtime.
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Indonesia - Domestic Workers: Part 2 Salary
24 April 2010
While other workers have different set of minimum wage standards for their income, there is no standard yet in Indonesia for the salary of domestic workers. In the meantime, it is heavily depend on the employer's generosity. In this circumstances, and as part of the campaign and program of the ILO for creating decent work for all, this video has a main message for the viewers: the work load and the need of the domestic workers and his/her family have to be considered wisely when setting up the salary level of the domestic worker.
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Indonesia - Domestic Workers: Part 1 Myths
23 April 2010
In Indonesia, most households consider the relationship between domestic workers and employers as a non-employment relationship. If you ask them, many will answer that it is more as a "family relationship" rather than an employment-relationship. Without opposing the positive meaning of "family relationship", this video emphasizes that beyond the personal relationship and approach, however, domestic worker's rights as workers should be respected and protected as it is applies to others workers, as clearly promoted by Atiqah Hasiholan, an Indonesian young female rising movie star.
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Indonesia: The Maluku Youth Sailing the Sea
01 April 2010
The short film highlights the youth employment project in the Aru Island of Maluku, showing that the skills of unemployed youths in the remote area could be improved through an integrated training approach. The trainings, in turn, helped them to get a job in a big fishery company. The project applied an integrated 4 in 1 approach and promoted good synergy among local government, NGO, company and trade union.
2009
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Video
Community infrastructure development: reducing poverty in times of crisis
01 December 2009
Disasters like floods, landslides, earthquakes or volcanic eruptions often occur in countries such as the Philippines. The video presents the Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) which created jobs at the community level using local resource-based investments in infrastructure. It proved that emergency interventions after a calamity not only provide immediate relief and employment for the affected families but also help improve their access to future employment and livelihood towards rebuilding their lives and their community.
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Prime Minister of Bangladesh speaks at Global Jobs Summit
17 June 2009
Speaking by video address to the Global Jobs Summit at the 98th International Labour Conference (ILC), the Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh shared her concerns with other world leaders about the on-going crises in financial and jobs markets. At the closing session of the Summit, Her Excellency Sheikh Hasina added that special action was needed to address the needs of the world’s less developed countries and in particular migrant workers, a group of people whose needs would have to be addressed jointly by migrant sending and receiving countries. The ILC has attracted 4,000 delegates from Governments, Workers and Employers organizations from more than 180 countries to the annual event of the UN agency dealing with issues affecting the world of work.
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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.