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I. General

1. Urges Status which have not yet done so, to ratify without delay the

Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Fursons and the Exploitation

of the Prostitution of Others of 1949 and the Supplementary Convention on the

Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar

to Slavery of 1956;

2. Requests the Secretary-General to call upon States parties to these

Conventions to submit regular reports on the situation in their countries, as

provided for under the Conventions, and to call upon other States to supply

relevant information to the Working Group on Slavery;

3. Recommends to the Commission on Human Rights that it resolve that the

United Nations and the competent specialized agencies should have a special

responsibility to create a sense of awareness in the world community, so that

influence is brought to bear on Governments to put an end to such odious

practices as slavery, the slave trade and the slavery-like practices of apartheid

and colonialism;

4.

Calls upon the mass media to disseminate information and to make their

important contribution to the rapid elimination of slavery and the slave trade in

all their practices and manifestations;

Proposes to

5. Under the Commission on Human Rights to consider establishing a human

rights assistance fund to provide material support, including the appearance of

witnesses before the Working Group on Slavery, to those areas of human rights

where it is most needed;

6.

Decides to resume annual consideration of the reports of the Working Group

on Slavery;

II.

The slavery-like practices of apartheid and colonialism

1. Decides to bring the report of the Secretary-General on apartheid as a

collective form of slavery and the report on child labour in South Africa submitted

to the Working Group on Slavery at its sixth session to the attention of the Ad Hoc

Working Group of Experts on Southern Africa, the Special Committee Against Apartheid,

and the Director-General of the ILO for their consideration and such action as

may be appropriate;

rejects

2. Strongly

the labour practices of the Government of South Africa,

which constitute a modern form of slavery}