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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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I'm trying to investigate what slavery means to other countries and cultures and I found this via wikipedia:
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The 1926 Slavery Convention, an initiative of the League of Nations, was a turning point in banning global slavery. Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948 by the UN General Assembly, explicitly banned slavery. The United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery was convened to outlaw and ban slavery worldwide, including child slavery. In December 1966, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which was developed from the Universal Declaraction of Human Rights. Article 8 of this international treaty bans slavery. The treaty came into force in March 1976 after it had been ratified by 35 nations. As of November 2003, 104 nations had ratified the treaty.
Slavery is defined as a crime against humanity by a French law of 2001.
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I did read over the actual text. A timeline of Slavery in Europe is quite interesting but it is incomplete.
The anti-slaverysociety website (I will not directly link here due to child pictures) is quite interesting as well as it helps put a human being in front of the text, just search about the previous link I provided.
No it does not make it okay, but again, imposing morality on others is sticky business. There is a point where a line is drawn and people have to make the decisions for themselves.
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