Damien Riunaud, ILO Videographer

by Damien Riunaud, ILO Videographer

Theresa was 12 years old when she started working at a gold mine, carrying heavy pans of gold on her head, walking from the pits to the processing machinery 80 to 90 times a day.

Hers is one of the heart-rending stories recounted in Dreams of Gold, a short virtual reality documentary we filmed in Ghana’s Ashanti region, which will be premiered at the Centenary International Labour Conference (ILC), taking place in June in Geneva. Continue reading →

Capt. Jasmine Labarda

I never knew anything about life at sea before I started my training. Certainly, where I come from – the Philippines – and also in other countries, being a seafarer is not seen as a job for a woman. In fact, the sea is seen as a man’s world.  It’s their space, it’s their history. There is never a ‘herstory. Continue reading →