Dear Friends,

Across the world, millions of people are on the move - doing jobs 
ranging from menial labour such as harvesting to computer programming. 
Combined, their numbers would equal the fifth most populous country on 
the planet. The number of migrants crossing borders in search of 
employment and human security is expected to increase rapidly in the 
coming decades due to the failure of globalization to provide jobs and 
economic opportunities.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is the only United Nations 
agency with a constitutional mandate to protect migrant workers, and 
this mandate has been re-affirmed by the 1944 Declaration of 
Philadelphia and the 1998 ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and 
Rights at Work. It has been dealing with labour migration issues since 
its inception in 1919. It has pioneered international Conventions to 
guide migration policy and protection of migrant workers. All major 
sectors of the ILO - standards, employment, social protection and social 
dialogue - work on labour migration within its overarching framework of 
"decent work for all". ILO adopts a rights-based approach to labour 
migration and promotes tripartite participation (governments, employers 
and workers) in migration policy. The ILO sees today's global challenge 
as forging the policies and the resources to better manage labour 
migration so that it contributes positively to the growth and 
development of both home and host societies, as well as to the well 
being of the migrants themselves.

Visit our YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/ILOTV and the "Labour 
Migrants" playlist 
http://www.youtube.com/user/ILOTV#grid/user/2181D8C34C994D34

Subscribe to get updates. Please feel free to share, rate and comment on 
our videos!

The Department of Communication and Public Information of the ILO has 
also created playlists on its YouTube Channel dedicated to Child Labour 
http://www.youtube.com/user/ILOTV#grid/user/418A6833A1C5B483 Forced 
Labour http://www.youtube.com/user/ILOTV#g/c/077D1DC843F1D3FD Decent 
Work http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=29AE8D4454D63D8A Women at 
Work http://www.youtube.com/user/ILOTV#grid/user/52393B3C2D2785CC ( 
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=52393B3C2D2785CC ) HIV/AIDS: A 
Workplace Issue http://www.youtube.com/user/ILOTV#grid/user/7011D7879AA663AD

The footage of some of the videos is available for downloading in 
broadcast quality at http://broadcast.ilo.org/ILOVNM including scripts 
and shot lists. If the footage you are looking for is not in that list, 
please do not hesitate to contact Ms. Béatrice Mann ([log in to unmask]).

Moreover, commemorating the International Day of Persons with 
Disabilities last 3rd of December, the Department of Communication and 
Public Information of the ILO created another playlist that includes 
videos with Closed Captions and some of them with subtitles in French 
and Spanish as well( 
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C08B2FB648482FEC ). 
Unfortunately we do not have the entire collection of ILO TV's videos 
there, but we want to let you know that we are working on the 
improvement of our web-based platforms in order to be consistent with 
our principles of equity, not only for disabled people, but also for 
Non-Native English speakers.

In YouTube, videos with captions display the small "CC" logo at the 
bottom of the player. You can activate them by clicking the menu button 
located on the bottom right of the video player. Clicking this button 
will also allow you to choose which caption track you want to see. If 
captions are available, but not in a language you prefer, you can try 
the machine translation feature. Open the captions menu just as if 
picking a caption track, but click on the "Translate..." button. For 
more information, have a look at http://www.youtube.com/t/captions_about

Do not hesitate to share this message with people you know and who could 
find this information useful.

Thank you for your time, interest, and we hope you will enjoy our Channel.

Kind Regards,

Lorena Peña (Ms.)
Dept. of Communication and Public Information
International Labour Organization
Tel:        +41 22 799 6806
E-mail: [log in to unmask]


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