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| long_name           = 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery
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| caption             = Boy slave in [[Zanzibar]], c.1890
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| date_signed         = 7 September 1956
| location_signed     = [[Geneva]], Switzerland
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| date_effective      = 30 April 1957
| condition_effective = Fulfilled
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| signatories         = 35
| parties             = 123 (as at May 2013)<ref>[https://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetailsIII.aspx?src=IND&mtdsg_no=XVIII-4&chapter=18&Temp=mtdsg3&clang=_en]</ref>(Convention and subsequent Protocol)
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The '''Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery''', the full title of which is the '''Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery''', is a 1956 United Nations treaty which builds upon the [[1926 Slavery Convention]], which is still operative and which proposed to secure the abolition of [[slavery]] and of the slave trade, and the [[Forced Labour Convention, 1930|Forced Labour Convention of 1930]], which banned [[forced labour|forced or compulsory labour]], by banning [[debt bondage]], [[serf]]dom, [[child marriage]], [[servile marriage]], and [[child servitude]].

== Summary of key articles ==
'''Article 1''' - The parties commit to abolish and abandon debt bondage, serfdom, servile marriage and child servitude.

'''Article 2''' - The parties commit to enacting [[marriageable age|minimum ages of marriage]], encouraging registration of marriages, and encouraging the public declaration of consent to marriage.

'''Article 3''' - Criminalisation of slave trafficking.

'''Article 4''' - Runaway slaves who take refuge on flag vessels of parties shall thereby ''[[ipso facto]]'' attain their freedom.

'''Article 5''' - Criminalisation of the marking (including [[mutilation]] and [[human branding|branding]]) of slaves and servile persons.

'''Article 6''' - Criminalisation of enslavement and giving others into slavery.

'''Article 7''' - Definitions of "slave", "a person of servile status" and "slave trade"

'''Article 9''' - No [[reservation (law)|reservations]] may be made to this Convention.

'''Article 12''' - This Convention shall apply to all [[United Nations trust territories|non-self-governing-trust]], colonial and other non-metropolitan territories to the [[international relations]] of which any State Party is responsible.
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==See also==
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*[[Anti-Slavery International]]
*[[Slave Trade Act]]s

==External links==
* Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, 226 U.N.T.S. 3, entered into force 30 April 1957. [http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/f3scas.htm Text of the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery]

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