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

, which is still operative and which proposed to secure the abolition of

slavery Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave—someone forbidden to quit one's service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as property. Slavery typically involves slaves being made to perf ...

and of the slave trade, and the Forced Labour Convention of 1930, which banned forced or compulsory labour, by banning

debt bondage Debt bondage, also known as debt slavery, bonded labour, or peonage, is the pledge of a person's services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation. Where the terms of the repayment are not clearly or reasonably stated, the pe ...

serf Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to and differences from slavery, which developed ...

dom,

child marriage Child marriage is a marriage or similar union, formal or informal, between a child under a certain age – typically 18 years – and an adult or another child. * * * * The vast majority of child marriages are between a female child and a mal ...

, servile marriage, and child servitude.

Summary of key articles

Article 1 – The parties commit to abolish and abandon debt bondage, serfdom, servile marriage and child servitude. Article 2 – The parties commit to enacting minimum ages of marriage, encouraging registration of marriages, and encouraging the public declaration of consent to marriage. Article 3 – Criminalisation of slave trafficking. Article 4 – Runaway slaves who take refuge on flag vessels of parties shall thereby ''

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'' attain their freedom. Article 5 – Criminalisation of the marking (including

mutilation Mutilation or maiming (from the Latin: ''mutilus'') refers to Bodily harm, severe damage to the body that has a ruinous effect on an individual's quality of life. It can also refer to alterations that render something inferior, ugly, dysfunction ...

and

branding Branding may refer to: Physical markings * Making a mark, typically by charring: ** Wood branding, permanently marking, by way of heat, typically of wood (also applied to plastic, cork, leather, etc.) ** Livestock branding, the marking of animals ...

) of slaves and servile persons. Article 6 – Criminalisation of enslavement and giving others into slavery. Article 7 – Definitions of "slave", "a person of servile status" and "slave trade" Article 9 – No reservations may be made to this Convention. Article 12 – This Convention shall apply to all non-self-governing-trust, colonial and other non-metropolitan territories to the

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of which any State Party is responsible.

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* Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, 226 U.N.T.S. 3, entered into force 30 April 1957
Text of the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
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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 wh ...

Summary of key articles

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