The Slavery Conventions
The Travaux Préparatoires of the 1926 League of Nations Convention and the 1956 United Nations Convention
Biographical note
Jean Allain, PhD (2000) in International Law, University of Geneva (IUHEI), is co-Editor of the Irish Yearbook of International Law and author of A Century of International Adjudication (2000) and International Law in the Middle East (2004).
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Interest to those working in public international law, specifically human rights, women's issues, trafficking. Also of interest to academic libraries, historians, and practitioners of international criminal law and human rights law.
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Table of contents
Preface; Acknowledgements; The Slavery Conventions; 1926 League of Nations Slavery Convention; 1953 Protocol Amending the 1926 Slavery Convention; 1956 United Nations Supplementary Convention; Appendices; Index.
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This work gathers in a single publication the records of the meetings which, in the context of the post World War II United Nations, led to the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
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