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ILO / IRELAND HIGGINS
STORY: ILO / IRELAND HIGGINS
TRT: 03:37
SOURCE: ILO
RESTRICTION: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 07 JUNE 2018, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, Michael Higgins, President of Ireland arrives
2. Various shots, Michael Higgins, President of Ireland enters Assembly Hall at the UN’s Palais des Nations and walks up onto the stage
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Higgins, President of Ireland:
“Expanding economic opportunities, ensuring the recognition of fundamental social and economic rights, advocating, advancing and achieving decent work, and facilitating social dialogue between workers, employers and civic organisations, are critical components of recovery from conflict and the prevention of any return to war. I therefore welcome the ambition to place the International Labour Organisation at the centre of our efforts to create a new global architecture for sustaining peace.”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Higgins, President of Ireland:
“We the Members of the International Labour Organisation accept a moral, political, social and economic responsibility not only to the peoples of our own nations, but to the peoples of other nations, and indeed may I emphasize for future generations as well. For there can be no social justice that is not unlimited, no peace that is not universal, and no solidarity that is not open to all.”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Higgins, President of Ireland:
“The labour share of Gross National Income has been declining in most countries since 1980. When we speak of labour, and of the fruits of labour and of the distribution of the gains and losses of globalisation, the question that work poses is a fundamental question. For if the overwhelming gains of globalisation accrue only to the few, and are predicted to continue for the few, and the losses imposed and pushed down upon the many, can we truly envision a peaceful world?”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Higgins, President of Ireland:
“Above all, on a day on which we speak of conflict and peace-building, I would like to commend the commitment for an end, not in a decade’s time, but now, to violence and harassment against women in the workplace. These daily acts of aggression against women are a global outrage, they do not know any national barriers. At times they occur within the context of slavery, indentured labour, or physical abduction and abuse. This must be ended and it requires a global response.”
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Higgins, President of Ireland:
“Through those two vital moral achievements of the diplomacy of the common good, the Paris Climate Accord and the Sustainable Development Goals, we now have the vehicles through which we can focus, organise, and measure our efforts in a way that will enable us to meet the challenges of our century and build a lasting peace. Decent work, gender equality, and climate justice they are after all at its very core.”
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Higgins, President of Ireland:
“That is how peace will be built and maintained in this century, a century that must, in new and ever-changing conditions, craft the experience of work within a sustainable, ethical global citizenship.”
The President of Ireland Michael Higgins said “there can be no social justice that is not unlimited, no peace that is not universal, and no solidarity that is not open to all.”
Speaking today (7 Jun) at the World of Work Summit in Geneva to discuss the importance of creating decent jobs in countries emerging from conflict, crisis and disaster, the Irish President Michael Higgins said “expanding economic opportunities, ensuring the recognition of fundamental social and economic rights, advocating, advancing and achieving decent work, and facilitating social dialogue between workers, employers and civic organisations, are critical components of recovery from conflict and the prevention of any return to war."
Higgins welcomed the ambition to place the International Labour Organisation at the centre of the efforts to create a new global architecture for sustaining peace.
He said “wee the Members of the International Labour Organisation accept a moral, political, social and economic responsibility not only to the peoples of our own nations, but to the peoples of other nations, and indeed may I emphasize for future generations as well.”
Higgins also said “the labour share of Gross National Income has been declining in most countries since 1980. When we speak of labour, and of the fruits of labour and of the distribution of the gains and losses of globalisation, the question that work poses is a fundamental question.”
He added “for if the overwhelming gains of globalisation accrue only to the few, and are predicted to continue for the few, and the losses imposed and pushed down upon the many, can we truly envision a peaceful world?”
The Irish president commended “the commitment for an end, not in a decade’s time, but now, to violence and harassment against women in the workplace.”
He said “these daily acts of aggression against women are a global outrage, they do not know any national barriers. At times they occur within the context of slavery, indentured labour, or physical abduction and abuse. This must be ended and it requires a global response.”
Higgins also noted that “through those two vital moral achievements of the diplomacy of the common good, the Paris Climate Accord and the Sustainable Development Goals, we now have the vehicles through which we can focus, organise, and measure our efforts in a way that will enable us to meet the challenges of our century and build a lasting peace. Decent work, gender equality, and climate justice they are after all at its very core.”
He added “that is how peace will be built and maintained in this century, a century that must, in new and ever-changing conditions, craft the experience of work within a sustainable, ethical global citizenship.”
The International Labour Conference held a World of Work Summit to discussed the importance of employment and decent work for peace and resilience, with a specific focus on tackling the realities on the ground and on partnerships that can achieve real results. The Summit addressed the challenges of sustaining peace by providing opportunities in the world of work, especially for young people. It consisted of a High-Level Panel discussion and a speeches by high-level keynote speakers.
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