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International Convention for the Suppression

of the Traffic in Women and Children, Geneva 1921

The Convention

Item 8.3

The

International

Convention for the Suppression

Of the Traffic in Women, and Children ("the Convention") was concluded at Geneva on 30 September 1921 and entered into

force on 28 June 1922 (text at. Annex A) The United

Kingdom ratified the Convention on 28 June 1922 and applied it to Hong Kong and some other dependent territories on 23 September 1922 (reference at Annex B). The Convention was drawn up under the auspices of the now defunct League of

Nations and under Article 10,

the Convention is open to

accession by all League Members and any non-Members to

which the

Council of the League may officially communicate

the Convention.

BY а resolution of the first Geneva Assembly Of the United Nations, the United Nations assumed the exercise of certain functions and powers previously entrusted to the League, in particular those connected with the custody of treaties deposited with the Secretariat of

the League.

2.

The

Convention

is

supplementary

to

the

International Agreement for the Suppression of the white Slave Traffic, 1904 and the International Convention for

the

of Suppression

1910.

the white

Slave

Traffic,

Contracting Parties to the Convention undertake to take all

measures

to

prosecute

persons

who

are engaged

in

the

traffic in children of both sexes and who commit offences within the meaning of the convention for the suppression of White Slave Traffic, 1910 (Article 2). Contracting

the

Parties

also

agree

that,

in

cases where

there are

no

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