Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery

Index Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery

The Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the full title of which is the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, is a 1956 United Nations treaty which builds upon the 1926 Slavery Convention, which is still operative and which proposed to secure the abolition of slavery and of the slave trade, and the Forced Labour Convention of 1930, which banned forced or compulsory labour, by banning debt bondage, serfdom, child marriage, servile marriage, and child servitude. [1]

20 relations: Anti-Slavery International, Child marriage, Contemporary slavery, Debt bondage, Forced Labour Convention, Geneva, Human branding, International relations, Ipso facto, Marriageable age, Mutilation, Reservation (law), Serfdom, Servile marriage, Slave Trade Act, Slavery, Unfree labour, United Nations trust territories, Zanzibar, 1926 Slavery Convention.

Anti-Slavery International

Anti-Slavery International is an international non-governmental organization, registered charity and a lobby group, based in the United Kingdom.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Anti-Slavery International · See more »

Child marriage

Child marriage is a formal marriage or informal union entered into by an individual before reaching a certain age, specified by several global organizations such as UNICEF as minors under the age of 18.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Child marriage · See more »

Contemporary slavery

Contemporary slavery, also known as modern slavery, refers to the institutions of slavery that continue to exist in the present day.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Contemporary slavery · See more »

Debt bondage

Debt bondage, also known as debt slavery or bonded labour, is a person's pledge of labour or services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation, where there is no hope of actually repaying the debt.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Debt bondage · See more »

Forced Labour Convention

The Forced Labour Convention, the full title of which is the Convention Concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour, 1930 (No.29), is one of eight ILO fundamental conventions of the International Labour Organization.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Forced Labour Convention · See more »

Geneva

Geneva (Genève, Genèva, Genf, Ginevra, Genevra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Geneva · See more »

Human branding

Human branding or stigmatizing is the process which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person, with the intention that the resulting scar makes it permanent.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Human branding · See more »

International relations

International relations (IR) or international affairs (IA) — commonly also referred to as international studies (IS) or global studies (GS) — is the study of interconnectedness of politics, economics and law on a global level.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and International relations · See more »

Ipso facto

Ipso facto is a Latin phrase, directly translated as "by the fact itself", which means that a specific phenomenon is a direct consequence, a resultant effect, of the action in question, instead of being brought about by a previous action.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Ipso facto · See more »

Marriageable age

Marriageable age (or marriage age) is the minimum age at which a person is allowed by law to marry, either as a right or subject to parental or other forms of consent.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Marriageable age · See more »

Mutilation

Mutilation or maiming (from the Latin: mutilus) is cutting off or injury to a body part of a person so that the part of the body is permanently damaged, detached or disfigured.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Mutilation · See more »

Reservation (law)

A reservation in international law is a caveat to a state's acceptance of a treaty.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Reservation (law) · See more »

Serfdom

Serfdom is the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Serfdom · See more »

Servile marriage

The concept of servile marriage covers marriage whereby a woman may be promised and/or given in marriage without her consent.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Servile marriage · See more »

Slave Trade Act

Slave Trade Act is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom and the United States that relates to the slave trade.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Slave Trade Act · See more »

Slavery

Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Slavery · See more »

Unfree labour

Unfree labour is a generic or collective term for those work relations, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence (including death), compulsion, or other forms of extreme hardship to themselves or members of their families.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Unfree labour · See more »

United Nations trust territories

United Nations trust territories were the successors of the remaining League of Nations mandates, and came into being when the League of Nations ceased to exist in 1946.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and United Nations trust territories · See more »

Zanzibar

Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and Zanzibar · See more »

1926 Slavery Convention

The 1926 Slavery Convention or the Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery was an international treaty created under the auspices of the League of Nations and first signed on 25 September 1926.

New!!: Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery and 1926 Slavery Convention · See more »

Redirects here:

1956 Slavery Convention, 1956 UN Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, The United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplementary_Convention_on_the_Abolition_of_Slavery

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »