UNITED NATIONS
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! SOCIAL COUNCIL
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E/CN.4/Sub.2/447 20 August 1980
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COMMISSION ON HULIAN RIGHTS Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection
of Minorities
Thirty-third session
Item 11 of the provisional agenda
QUESTION OF SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE IN ALL THEIR PRACTICES ·
AND MANIFESTATIONS, INCLUDING THE SLAVERY-LIKE PRACTICES
OF APARTHEID AND COLONIALISM
Report of the Working Group on Slavery on its sixth session
Chairman-Rapporteur: Mr. Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury
I. ORGANIZATION OF THE SESSION
Introduction
1.
The Working Group on Slavery was established by the Sub-Commission in resolution 11 (XXVII) of 21 August 1974, as authorized by the Economic and Social Council in decision 17(LVI) of 17 May 1974. 1/
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The Group held its sixth session at Geneva on 11 to 15, and 20 August 1980.
Participation
3. At its thirty-second session, the Sub-Commission decided that the Working Group would be composed of the following members: Mr. Mario Amadeo, Mr. Beverly Carter, Mr. Dumitru Ceausu, Mr. Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury and Mr. Ibrahim Jimeta. 2/ Following the resignation of Mr. Amadeo and the illness of Mr. Carter, the Chairman of the thirty-second session of the Sub-Commission appointed Mr. José Martínez Cobo and Mrs. Erica Daes as replacements. Mrs. Daes was able to attend only the last two meetings of the Working Group, on 15 and 20 August 1980 because the invitation was late in the circumstances. Mr. Jimeta attended the seventh meeting of the Working Group, on 20 August 1980.
For information concerning the establishment and terms of reference of the Group, see E/CN.4/Sub.2/AC.2/3.
2/ Decision adopted at the 854th meeting on 7 September 1979 (E/CN.4/1350, chapter XVI, B, para. 7).
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