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The code of conduct, the first initiative of its kind by a UNCT in the Middle East, requires UN staff to abide by 21 specific standards regarding the employment of people who care for families and households.At least 53 million people 鈥?and possibly as many as 100 million 鈥?worldwide are estimated to be domestic workers, with more than four fifths of them women or girls. A large percentage of them are migrants, and many have few rights or face severe exploitation.Last week the UN International Labour Organization ILO adopted the Convention on Domestic Workers, aimed at providing such workers with t
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During an extensive discussion between Mr. Annan and Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing that continued through a working lunch, the two also examined the UN s role in Iraq, the Iranian nuclear issue, the crisis in Sudan s Darfur region and the situation in Myanmar, according to a spokesman travelling with the Secretary-General.At a subsequent press conference, Mr. Annan was asked about the international conference on Iraq. It is going to be an important meeting, he said, because it would bring together Iraq, its neighbours and other members of the international community.But he said it was too soon to comment on whether th
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Central banks should focus more on fighting inflation and less on bailing out struggling governments and lagging economies, the head of Germany s central bank said Monday during a talk at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.Jens Weidmann, the president of Deutsche Bundesbank and also a member of the European Central Bank s governing council, advocated firm separation among central banks, governments, and private financial markets.Several central banks, including the European Central Bank, have stepp
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The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan UNAMA said Mohammed Farid, a member of the Mazar-i-Sharif police, was killed when he went to investigate clashes between two facti
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