Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
February 15, 2024
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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 ipso facto attain their freedom.
Article 5: Criminalisation of the marking (including mutilation and branding) 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 international relations 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
February 15, 2024
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