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Item 8.4

International Convention with the object of Securing ie Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Geneva 1926

and the Protocol amending the Slavery Convention,

New York 1953

Convention

The

International

Convention with the Object of

Jring the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade ("the vention") aims to prevent and suppress the slave trade to bring about the complete abolition of slavery in all forms (text at Annex Á). It was concluded at Geneva on

1926 under the September

of auspices

the League of

and entered into force on 9 March 1927. The United ratified the convention on 18 June 1927 and applied

Hong Kong on the same date (reference at Annex B). Article 11 the Convention is open to accession by all

ions

gdom

to

¡nder

states.

The

to

Convention requires Contracting Parties

measures with a view to preventing

pt all appropriate

suppressing

the

nsport

of slaves

in

> m

embarkation,

disembarkation and

their territorial waters and upon

vessels flying their respective flags (Article 3).

developing into

to

Contracting Parties also undertake to give to one >ther every assistance with the object of securing the >lition of slavery and the slave trade and to take all cessary measures to prevent compulsory or forced labour

conditions analogous

slavery

ticles 4 and 5). Those Contracting Parties whose laws

not make adequate provision for

of the punishment fractions of laws and regulations enacted with a view to

ving

dertake to adopt the necessary

vere

effect

to the

penalties

purposes

may

be

of

imposed

in

respect

the Convention

measures in order that

of such

also

fractions. (Article 6).

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