ILO / YALITZA APARICIO

08-Mar-2019 00:01:05
Taking part in an ILO’s celebration event of the International Women’s Day, Yalitza Aparicio, the actor who stars in the Oscar-winning film Roma said if you are women facing obstacles, you have to “keep insisting because at some point you will achieve it!” ILO
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STORY: ILO / YALITZA APARICIO
TRT: 1:05
SOURCE: ILO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /SPANISH /NATS

DATELINE: 8 MARCH 2019, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
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1. Wide shot, panel
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Yalizta Aparicio, actress:
“If you are a woman and they say no, and you try again and they say no, keep insisting because at some point you will achieve it! And best of all will be that in the end you will have a much bigger reward.”
3. Wide shot, panel
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder,Director-General, International Labour Organization:
“We have to make the world of work change. I mean, a lot of what happens in society in general, it really has its origins in, or ends up in, what happens in workplaces. Be it private homes in the case of domestic workers, be it on construction sites, be it in the offices of this building. This is, I would say, the epicentre of the whole struggle.”
5. Cutaway, audience
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Allen Blue, VP Product Management and Co-Founder, LinkedIn:
“Companies need to find a way to invest in making the changes in their cultures, and the way they hire, in order to be able to make the possibility of gender equity a reality.”
7. Various shots, people moving
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Taking part in an ILO’s celebration event of the International Women’s Day, Yalitza Aparicio, the actor who stars in the Oscar-winning film Roma said if you are women facing obstacles, you have to “keep insisting because at some point you will achieve it!”

Yalizta Aparicio was a keynote speaker at the today’s (8 Mar) event in Geneva, which included Guy Ryder, Director-General of the ILO who said “we have to make the world of work change.”

Ryder also said “a lot of what happens in society in general, it really has its origins in, or ends up in, what happens in workplaces.” which is, according to Ryder “the epicentre of the whole struggle.”

LinkedIn Co-Founder Allen Blue said Co-Founder said “companies need to find a way to invest in making the changes in their cultures, and the way they hire, in order to be able to make the possibility of gender equity a reality.”

Other participants in the event included Tanya Cohen, Chief Executive of Business Unity South Africa, Mette Schak Dahlmann, representative from the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions, Nazhat Shameem Khan, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Fiji to the UN and other international organizations in Geneva.

The International Women’s Day is celebrated every March 8 since 1910 with a focus on promoting women’s rights.
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