FRANCAISAnti-Slavery International - History
1950-1959
-1950, United States: encouraged by the article 4 of the Human Rights Declaration of 1948, which bans slavery, the Anti-Slavery Society gains consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York.
-1956-1962, United States: following the lobbying of the Anti-Slavery Society, where Thomas Stanley Lane Fox-Pitt (1897-1989) replaces Charles Greenidge, a review of the 1926 Convention extends the notion of slavery to child labour, serfdom and debt bondage in 1956, as well as early and forced marriages in 1962. The organisation modifies its Constitution in consequence so as to include the new articles of international law.
-1957, Switzerland: the Society, which changes again its name into the Anti-Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights, supports the work of the International Labour Organisation towards the signature of the Convention n°105 banning the use of forced labour by governments as an instrument for political repression, economic development, labour discipline or racial, social, national or religious discrimination.
