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Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions
and Practices Similar to Slavery, Geneva 1956
The Convention
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The
Supplementary
Slavery, the Slave Trade
Similar
to
Convention on the Abolition of
and Institutions and Practices
Slavery, 1956 ("the Convention") aims to
intensify national and international efforts towards the
abolition of
slavery, the slave trade and institutions and
practices similar to slavery, including debt bondage, servile forms of marraige and the exploitation of children
ΟΙ young persons under the age of 18 years (text ät
Annex A).
2.
the
The Convention was adopted by ล Conference of
Plenipotentiaries convened by
Economic and Social Council
resolution 608 (XXI) of 30 April 1956 and concluded at
Geneva on 7 September 1956. The United Kingdom ratified
Convention on 30 April 1957 and applied it to Hong Kong
on 6 September 1957 (reference at Annex B). Under Article
11, it is open for accession by any State Member of the United Nations or of specialised agency or by any other
State to which an invitation to accede has been addressed
by the Geneva Assembly.
3.
With a view to ending servile forms of marriage,
Contracting
appropriate,
Parties
suitable
undertake to prescribe, where
minimum ages of marriage; to
encourage the use of facilities whereby the consent of both
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