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Extract from Resolution for the 22nd Annual Meeting
of St.Joan's Social and Political Alliance, held at
St. Patrick's Club Room, Soho Square,,Saturday 11th
March 1933.
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5. SLAVERY
St.Joan's S. P. A. urges the Government to celebrate
the Centenary of the abolition of slavery this year by
taking all possible steps to secure the real abolition
of all forms of slavery throughout the British Empire.
It demands that the Government should discountenance
among indigenous peoples any practices whatsoever
involving the bartering of women and children into
domestic and other forms of slavery, including the form
of child slavery in Hong Kong known as the Mui Tsai
system.
In regard to Mui Tsai:-
(1) St.Joan's S.P.A. demands that the pledge given
by the British Government for the inspection of
Mui Tsai in Hong Kong should be implemented by
the immediate appointment of the necessary
additional number of inspectors, including
women inspectors, to carry out this inspection
fully and systematically.
(ii) That so-called "adopted daughters" should be
registered forthwith, such registration to be
followed by inspection, observing that "Deeds
of Presentation" and "Adoption Deeds" show tha
such "Adopted daughters" are purchased, and the
subterfuge of adoption is used as a a means of
obtaining Mui Tsai, as shown by the evidence
the Courts.