Establishing the drafting history of the 1926 and 1956 Slavery Conventions, this book sets out the legal parameters of slavery and provides insights into the legal obligations undertaken by States as they were understood at the time of ...
Author: Jean Allain
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789047429968
Category: Law
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Establishing the drafting history of the 1926 and 1956 Slavery Conventions, this book sets out the legal parameters of slavery and provides insights into the legal obligations undertaken by States as they were understood at the time of negotiation.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign RelationsPublish On: 1954
Message from the President of the United States Transmitting a Protocol Amending the Slavery Convention, Signed at Geneva on September 25, 1926, was Opened for Signature at the Headquarters of the United Nations, New York, on December 7 ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
We have , at these Anti - Slavery Conventions , set an example for others . Other benevolent bodies now seek to bring together their friends from different nations to consult and to co - operate ; and by a beautiful propriety of ...
Author: A L (Abbe Livingston) 1 WarnshuisPublish On: 2021-09-10
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
Author: A L (Abbe Livingston) 1 Warnshuis
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 1015318991
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What can be considered slavery? Should forced labour be considered slavery? Debt-bondage? Child soldiering? Or forced marriage? This book explores the limits of how slavery is understood in law.
Author: Jean Allain
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191645358
Category: Law
Page: 416
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"Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised." So reads the legal definition of slavery agreed by the League of Nations in 1926. Further enshrined in law during international negotiations in 1956 and 1998, this definition has been interpreted in different ways by the international courts in the intervening years. What can be considered slavery? Should forced labour be considered slavery? Debt-bondage? Child soldiering? Or forced marriage? This book explores the limits of how slavery is understood in law. It shows how the definition of slavery in law and the contemporary understanding of slavery has continually evolved and continues to be contentious. It traces the evolution of concepts of slavery, from Roman law through the Middle Ages, the 18th and 19th centuries, up to the modern day manifestations, including manifestations of forced labour and trafficking in persons, and considers how the 1926 definition can distinguish slavery from lesser servitudes. Together the contributors have put together a set of guidelines intended to clarify the law where slavery is concerned. The Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines on the Legal Parameters of Slavery, reproduced here for the first time, takes their shared understanding of both the past and present to project a consistent interpretation of the legal definition of slavery for the future.