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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.
The mixed slave-trade courts were combined courts of the United Kingdom and the United States established under the treaty for the purpose of suppressing the slave trade. The treaty created three mixed courts to be staffed by an equal number of British and American judges for the purposes of adjudicating cases arising under its provisions.
The 1921 Convention ensure that protection from trafficking and sexual exploitation on the international level. The Article 6 states that "The High Contracting Parties agree, in case they have not already taken licensing and supervision of employment agencies and offices, to prescribe such regulations as are required to ensure the protection of women and children seeking employment in another ...
The Firman of 1830 had officially liberated all white slaves in the Empire. It was followed by the closure of the open slave market in Constantinople by the Disestablishment of the Istanbul Slave Market in 1847. After this date, slaves were sold behind the scenes rather than in the open, and no longer visible to foreigners.