Slavery treaty

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The Slavery Agreement of 1926 is a state treaty that was concluded within the framework of the League of Nations to abolish slavery and the slave trade .

The agreement was supplemented by a protocol in 1953 and an additional convention from 1956.

See also

literature

  • Jean Allain (Ed.): The Legal Understanding of Slavery, From the Historical to the Contemporary , Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0199-66046-9
  • Jean Allain: A Century of International Adjudication: The Rule of Law and its Limits , TMC Asser Press, 2000, ISBN 978-9067041256 The Slavery Conventions: The Travaux Préparatoires of the 1926 League of Nations Convention and the 1956 United Nations Convention (The Travaux Préparatoires Of Multilateral Treaties) , Brill - Nijhoff, 2008, ISBN 978-9004-15861-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Protocol 1953 (PDF; 769 kB) Protocol amending the Slavery Convention. Signed at Geneva on September 25, 1926 New York, December 7, 1953
  2. 1956 Convention (PDF; 12.1 MB) 4th Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery. Geneva, September 7, 1956