I. General
1. Urges Status which have not yet done so, to ratify without delay the
Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Fursons and the Exploitation
of the Prostitution of Others of 1949 and the Supplementary Convention on the
Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar
to Slavery of 1956;
2. Requests the Secretary-General to call upon States parties to these
Conventions to submit regular reports on the situation in their countries, as
provided for under the Conventions, and to call upon other States to supply
relevant information to the Working Group on Slavery;
3. Recommends to the Commission on Human Rights that it resolve that the
United Nations and the competent specialized agencies should have a special
responsibility to create a sense of awareness in the world community, so that
influence is brought to bear on Governments to put an end to such odious
practices as slavery, the slave trade and the slavery-like practices of apartheid
and colonialism;
4.
Calls upon the mass media to disseminate information and to make their
important contribution to the rapid elimination of slavery and the slave trade in
all their practices and manifestations;
Proposes to
5. Under the Commission on Human Rights to consider establishing a human
rights assistance fund to provide material support, including the appearance of
witnesses before the Working Group on Slavery, to those areas of human rights
where it is most needed;
6.
Decides to resume annual consideration of the reports of the Working Group
on Slavery;
II.
The slavery-like practices of apartheid and colonialism
1. Decides to bring the report of the Secretary-General on apartheid as a
collective form of slavery and the report on child labour in South Africa submitted
to the Working Group on Slavery at its sixth session to the attention of the Ad Hoc
Working Group of Experts on Southern Africa, the Special Committee Against Apartheid,
and the Director-General of the ILO for their consideration and such action as
may be appropriate;
rejects
2. Strongly
the labour practices of the Government of South Africa,
which constitute a modern form of slavery}