... Article I in the League of Nations Slavery Convention defined slavery as the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attached to the right of ownership are exercised ; in other words, slavery is limited or unlimited ownership ...

... SLAVERY AND THE Last week in the House of Lords EARL BUXTON asked if the reports on slavery for which the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs undertook to call in 1923 had Yet been received ; if the Lea ue of Nations had asked to be supplied with any ...

... part she had taken in calling attention to slavery wherever it occurs. Lady Simon opened by saying how appropriate it was to address a meeting of the Women's Freedom League on the subject of slavery, for slavery does not admit the freedom of human beings ...

... SLAVERY. The League of Nations is to take up the whole question of Slavery next month, and the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society has prepared a memorial addressed to the League of Nations bearing the signatures of some of the best-known men ...

... ABOLISH SLAVERY The Conference convened on February 12th., at Caxton Hall, by the Council for the Representation of Women in the League of Nations, to discuss certain forms of slavery—economic, marital, and domesticaffecting women under British administration ...

... THE VOTE Slavery *This Conference resolves that the Women's Freedom League continue to press vigorously for the abolition of the inhuman Mui-Tsai system of girl child slavery in those parts of China under British jurisdiction, and that representations ...

... her book on Slavery, which was a challenge to the civilised world, and that we could only repay the debt we owe by doing everything in our power to bring to an end all existing systems of Slavery. LADY SIMON said that the subject of slavery required to ...

... TO SUPPRESS SLAVERY. IJFor many months past, questions in the Hous it-'omrnons have been Concerned with the existenc very in Abyssinia. Last Friday the correspond the Westminster Gazette reported from, Geneva th Assembly had elected Abyssinia to membership ...

... THE LEAGUE AND SLAVERY. The Sixth Committee of the League of Nations, which deals with political questions, including Slavery, last week had before it the British proposal for the convening of a permanent Commission on Slavery. This proposal met with ...

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... SUPPRESSION OF SLAVERY Last week, after ten years of inquiry and discussion, the British proposals for the abolition of slavery were accepted by the League of Nations at Geneva. By its resolution in the Assembly the League committed itself to the s ...

... WOMEN ON SLAVERY COMMISSION It is reported in the Press that a Slavery Commission has been appointed by the League of Nations. Seven men are being appointed to this Commission and it is intended to invite a Portuguese woman to become a member of it. We ...