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The International Agreement for the suppression of the White Slave Traffic (also known as the White Slave convention) [1] is a series of anti–human trafficking treaties, specifically aimed at the illegal trade of white people, the first of which was first negotiated in Paris in 1904. It was one of the first multilateral treaties to address ...
The 1926 Slavery Convention or the Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is an international treaty created under the auspices of the League of Nations and first signed on 25 September 1926. It was registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on 9 March 1927, the same day it went into effect. [2]
After World War I, the white slave trade or sex trafficking was adressed by the League of Nations, whose Advisory Committee on Traffic in Women and Children created the International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children in 1921. [75]
Previous international conventions had been ratified by 34 countries in 1901 and 1904, [1] and 1910 as Convention for Suppression of White Slave Trade. The League of Nations , formed in 1919, quickly became the organization coordinating international efforts to study and attempt to end the practice.
1926 Slavery Convention; Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery; Suppression of the slave trade in the Persian Gulf; International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children
The 1956 Supplementary Convention on Slavery came into force on April 30, 1957 and of 2002 there were 97 states partied to the convention. The Slavery Convention and its supplementary document are beneficial in providing an international definition of slavery; however, there is no significant enforcement behind these documents.
The International Bureau for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children (IBSTWC), also known as only the International Bureau, was a British organization, established in London in 1899. Its goal was to combat human trafficking , specifically what was then termed as the white slave trade ; the trafficking in women and children for ...
The convention [4] requires state parties to punish any person who "procures, entices, or leads away, for purposes of prostitution, another person, even with the consent of that person", "exploits the prostitution of another person, even with the consent of that person" (Article 1), or runs a brothel or rents accommodations for prostitution purposes (Article 2).