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UN labour body to draft sexual harassment treaty

<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>''<h3 class="m_8036288233920283971gmail-r" style="font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><b style="font-size: 12.8px;">United Nation's labour body agreed today to draft an international treaty to protect workers from sexual harassment and violence. Wrapping up their annual meeting in Geneva, members of the International Labour Organization (ILO) agreed on the need to adopt standards on violence and harassment in the world of work. A text adopted at the concluding session said these standards should take the form of a Convention. </b></h3></b></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b><br />''</b></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>The ILO, which groups 187 member states along with labour unions and representatives for leading employers, agreed the treaty will be debated and voted on at their 2019 annual conference. </b><b>The members agreed that the treaty should aim to prevent a range of unacceptable behaviours and practices, or threats thereof. </b></div>

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