"UN: The Suplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, 1956" [2005] ELECD 325; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 102

Section Title: UN: The Suplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, 1956

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

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

Commentary: The Supplementary Convention (226 UNTS 3, entry into force
1957) broadened the 1926 Convention's definition of slavery to include debt bondage,
servile forms of marriage and the exploitation of children and adolescents. The
OHCHR Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery considers information
on government measures to implement the three slavery-related Conventions:
www.ohchr.org/english/issues/slavery/group.htm. A Voluntary Trust Fund has been
established to facilitate NGO contributions to its deliberations and provide humani-
tarian, legal and financial assistance to victims: UNGA Resolution 46/122 (1991). See
also, Fact Sheet No.14 (1991) on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Geneva.




Section I: Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery

Article 1
Each of the States Parties to this Convention shall take all practicable and necessary legisla-
tive and other measures to bring about progressively and as soon as possible the complete
abolition or abandonment of the following institutions and practices, where they still exist
and whether or not they are covered by the definition of slavery contained in article 1 of the
Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926:

(a) Debt bondage, that is to say, the status or condition arising from a pledge by a debtor
of his personal services or of those of a person under his control as security for a debt,
if the value of those services as reasonably ...