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COLONIES AND
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DEPENDENCIES.
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(Reports have been received that it is the practice in
certain Colonies for immigrant white men to have native women and
girls procured for them for immoral purposes, and that these women
and girls are provided for them by Chiefs or procurers.)
(B)
(b)
The Secretary-General would be glad to be informed
What laws or administrative measures are in operation for limiting this evil if it exists in your country.
What statistics are available showing the number of prosecutions in each of your Colonies or Dependencies
of persons procuring these women.
CHILDREN.
(Reports have been received that the practice in certain
Colonies of adopting, pawning or bartering children is in existence
and that these children are obtained for immoral as well as for
industrial purposes.)
The Secretary-General of the League of Nations would be
glad to be informed what laws or administrative measures are in
operation to secure the abolition of this Traffic or to limit it if
it is in existence.
The information to be gathered from this questionnaire
will be indispensable to the International Conference on Traffic
in Women and Children, which, according to the Resolution of the
Assembly of 1920, the Council is invited to convene before the next
Assembly of the League of Nations in September, 1921.
It is hoped that it may be possible to arrange to hold this
Conference in June next. In view, therefore, of the short period pre-
ceding the meeting of this Conference, it would be greatly appreciated if the replies to the questionnaire, together with all relative documents in French or English, could be sent with the least possible delay, so as to enable the Secretariat of the League of Nations to perform the necessary preparatory work before the Conference meets.
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