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ILO / INDIGENOUS PEOPLES POVERTY
STORY: ILO / INDIGENOUS PEOPLES POVERTY
TRT: 2:50
SOURCE: ILO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 03 FEBRUARY 2020, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
03 FEBRUARY 2020, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Close up, report
2. Wide shot, press conference
3. Wide shot, Tomei speaking at press conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Manuela Tomei, Director, Conditions of Work and Equality Department, International Labour Organization:
“Indigenous peoples are more likely to be in employment than non-indigenous people. Indeed it’s 63 per cent of indigenous peoples are employed compared to 59 per cent of the non-indigenous populations. But there is, what actually poses problems, is the quality of the work. Indeed 86 per cent of all indigenous peoples around the world work informally compared to 66 per cent of non-indigenous people.”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Manuela Tomei, Director, Conditions of Work and Equality Department, International Labour Organization:
“The ILO recommends first that Convention 169 which is the only international treaty specifically dedicated to indigenous peoples is ratified by a much larger number of countries. Until now only 23 countries have ratified it.”
6. Wide shot, press conference
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Manuela Tomei, Director, Conditions of Work and Equality Department, International Labour Organization:
“The biggest challenge is that all of us are facing when it comes to improving the living and working conditions of indigenous peoples is the extremely high incidence of poverty and extreme poverty among them.”
8. Wide shot, Tomei speaking at press conference
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Manuela Tomei, Director, Conditions of Work and Equality Department, International Labour Organization:
“So, I mean we are in a situation of crisis. And getting the data, which are more granular, it goes just beyond saying how many they are and how poor they are, but provides more information about where they work, how much they get in return to their labour, in which sectors they are concentrated, whether they work formally or informally, and within the informal economy which segments of that economy they are occupying, is absolutely essential to indeed inform better policy making.”
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10. Various shots, indigenous women work in construction sector
The International Labour Organization (ILO) said there is an urgent need to tackle the high level of poverty and inequalities facing indigenous peoples.
According to a new ILO report, released to mark the 30th anniversary of the Indigenous and Tribal People’s Convention 1989 (No. 169), indigenous peoples are nearly three times as likely to be living in extreme poverty as their non-indigenous counterparts.
Speaking at a press conference in Geneva, Manuela Tomei, Director of the Conditions of Work and Equality Department at the ILO, said, despite the fact the indigenous are more likely to be in employment than their non-indigenous counterparts, the problem lies in “the quality of the work.” She said, “Indeed 86 per cent of all indigenous peoples around the world work informally compared to 66 per cent of non-indigenous people.”
The report found that indigenous peoples also often experience poor working conditions and discrimination. Tomei said the biggest challenge to improving the living and working conditions of indigenous peoples is “the extremely high incidence of poverty and extreme poverty among them.”
Tomei said ILO recommends that Convention 169, “which is the only international treaty specifically dedicated to indigenous peoples,” is ratified by a much larger number of countries, adding that so far only 23 countries have ratified it.
The Director said we are in “a situation of crisis.” She said gathering better data is “absolutely essential to indeed inform better policy making” to address the poverty and inequalities facing indigenous peoples.
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