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International Convention for the Suppression
of the Traffic in Women and Children, Geneva 1921
The Convention
Item 8.3
The
International
Convention for the Suppression
Of the Traffic in Women, and Children ("the Convention") was concluded at Geneva on 30 September 1921 and entered into
force on 28 June 1922 (text at. Annex A) The United
Kingdom ratified the Convention on 28 June 1922 and applied it to Hong Kong and some other dependent territories on 23 September 1922 (reference at Annex B). The Convention was drawn up under the auspices of the now defunct League of
Nations and under Article 10,
the Convention is open to
accession by all League Members and any non-Members to
which the
Council of the League may officially communicate
the Convention.
BY а resolution of the first Geneva Assembly Of the United Nations, the United Nations assumed the exercise of certain functions and powers previously entrusted to the League, in particular those connected with the custody of treaties deposited with the Secretariat of
the League.
2.
The
Convention
is
supplementary
to
the
International Agreement for the Suppression of the white Slave Traffic, 1904 and the International Convention for
the
of Suppression
1910.
the white
Slave
Traffic,
Contracting Parties to the Convention undertake to take all
measures
to
prosecute
persons
who
are engaged
in
the
traffic in children of both sexes and who commit offences within the meaning of the convention for the suppression of White Slave Traffic, 1910 (Article 2). Contracting
the
Parties
also
agree
that,
in
cases where
there are
no
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