A Timeline of Human Rights
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April 30,
1956
UN Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
Filed under: Slavery, Treaties
The convention banned debt bondage, serfdom, servile marriage and child servitude.
Full title is the “United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery.”
Full text, along with status of ratifications, reservations, and declarations, is available on the UN’s OHCHR Web site