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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. [78]
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
Article 7: Definitions of "slave", "a person of servile status" and "slave trade" Article 9 : No reservations may be made to this convention. Article 12 : This Convention shall apply to all non-self-governing-trust , colonial and other non-metropolitan territories to the international relations of which any State Party is responsible.
Bukola Oriola former slave, author of Imprisoned: The Travails of a Trafficked Victim (Nigerian) Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon (British) Elizabeth Smart former slave, founder of Elizabeth Smart Foundation (American) Linda Smith (American politician) founder of Shared Hope International (American) Helen Sworn (English) Sheila White former ...
Complete: The use of the word complete in a slave advertisement indicated a high level of competency, meaning the person had especial capability and/or the necessary training to "adeptly" perform certain work. [5] Dower slaves: Slaves brought into a family unit through the wife's previous ownership. [6]
Lieberson and Mikelson of Harvard University analyzed black names, finding that the recent innovative naming practices follow American linguistic conventions even if they are independent of organizations or institutions. [10] Given names used by African-American people are often invented or creatively-spelled variants of more traditional names.