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regulations as are required to ensure the protection of women and children seeking employment in another country." and the Article 7 to "undertake in connection with immigration and emigration adopt such administrative and legislative measures as are required to check the traffic in women and children. In particular, they undertake to make such regulations as are required for the protection of women and children traveling on emigrant ships, not only at the points of departure and arrival, but also during the journey and to arrange for the exhibition, in railway stations and imports of notices warning women and children of the traffic and indicating the places where they can obtain accommodation and assistance."
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The 1921 Convention set new goals for international efforts to stem human trafficking, primarily by giving the anti-trafficking movement further official recognition, as well as a bureaucratic apparatus to research and fight the problem. The Advisory Committee on the Traffic of Women and Children was
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The advisory committee also worked to expand its research and intervention program beyond the United States and Europe. In 1929, a need to expand into the Near East (Asia Minor), the Middle East, and Asia were acknowledged. An international conference of central authorities in Asia was planned for
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on 12 November 1947. The 1947 Protocol was ultimately ratified by 46 countries. This Protocol was superseded by the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (1949) whose Preamble recalls the 1921 Convention together with 1910
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The 1921 Convention ensure that protection from trafficking and sexual exploitation on the international level. The Article 6 states that "The High Contracting Parties agree, in case they have not already taken licensing and supervision of employment agencies and offices, to prescribe such
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groups, who they argued were best suited to give a voice to women's issues. The League held the International Conference on White Slave Traffic in 1921, and agreed on the International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children on 30 September 1921.
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Convention for Suppression of White Slave Traffic, and 1933 Convention on the Suppression of Traffic of Women of Full Age, again tabled by the United Nations Secretary-General.
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at first did not include women's rights groups, who protested their exclusion and canvassed politicians for support. Ultimately, United States President
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activists, and others, to address trafficking in women and children and its role in prostitution and
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a permanent advisory committee of the League. Its members were nine countries, and several
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during the late 19th century gave momentum to international efforts by
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reserve the Article 5 on limitation of age under 21 years old.
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Index

multilateral treaty
League of Nations
trafficking of women and children
reform movement
women's rights
social hygiene
labour exploitation
Convention for Suppression of White Slave Trade
League of Nations
Evelyn Waugh
Decline and Fall
League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
Georges Clemenceau
women's rights
International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women of Full Age
non-governmental organizations
reservations
British Empire
New Zealand
protectorate
mandated territories
India
Thailand
World War II
United Nations Secretary General
Human trafficking
Child prostitution
League of Nations
Reform movement

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