Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery

The Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, (the full name is Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery), is a 1956 United Nations treaty. It added to the 1926 Slavery Convention. It also added to the Forced Labour Convention of 1930.

Important articles

The convention gave rules to the countries that were apart of the convention.

Article 1: Serfdom, debt bondage, and child slavery is not allowed.

Article 2: There had to be a minimum age of marriage. It also supported marriage registration and publicly giving consent to marriage.

Article 3: Slave trafficking is not allowed.

Article 4: Runaway slaves who escape on ships should ipso facto get freedom.

Article 5: Marking, mutilation, branding slaves is not allowed.

Article 6: Slavery is not allowed.

Article 7: Defines a "slave", "a person of servile status" and "slave trade".

Other websites

• 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