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Item 8.4
International Convention with the object of Securing ie Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Geneva 1926
and the Protocol amending the Slavery Convention,
New York 1953
Convention
The
International
Convention with the Object of
Jring the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade ("the vention") aims to prevent and suppress the slave trade to bring about the complete abolition of slavery in all forms (text at Annex Á). It was concluded at Geneva on
1926 under the September
of auspices
the League of
and entered into force on 9 March 1927. The United ratified the convention on 18 June 1927 and applied
Hong Kong on the same date (reference at Annex B). Article 11 the Convention is open to accession by all
ions
gdom
to
¡nder
states.
The
to
Convention requires Contracting Parties
measures with a view to preventing
pt all appropriate
suppressing
the
nsport
of slaves
in
> m
embarkation,
disembarkation and
their territorial waters and upon
vessels flying their respective flags (Article 3).
developing into
to
Contracting Parties also undertake to give to one >ther every assistance with the object of securing the >lition of slavery and the slave trade and to take all cessary measures to prevent compulsory or forced labour
conditions analogous
slavery
ticles 4 and 5). Those Contracting Parties whose laws
not make adequate provision for
of the punishment fractions of laws and regulations enacted with a view to
ving
dertake to adopt the necessary
vere
effect
to the
penalties
purposes
may
be
of
imposed
in
respect
the Convention
measures in order that
of such
also
fractions. (Article 6).
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