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""Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised."" So reads the legal definition of slavery agreed by the League of Nations in 1926. Further enshrined in law during international negotiations in 1956 and 1998, this definition has been interpreted in different ways by the international courts in the intervening years. What can be considered slavery? Should forced labour be considered slavery? Debt-bondage? Child soldiering? Or forced marriage?This book explores the limits of how slavery is understood in law. I
Slavery --- Law and legislation. --- Law and legislation --- History. --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Slave trade --- Slavery (International law) --- Human rights --- Enslaved persons
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With the advent, in the twenty-first century, of the trafficking conventions and the criminalisation of enslavement before the International Criminal Court, the need to establish the black-letter law dealing with human exploitation has become acute. Slavery in International Law sets out the applicable law of human exploitation in the various sub-areas of international law, including general international law, human rights law, humanitarian law, labour law and the law of the sea; so as to create an overall understanding of what constitutes, in law, slavery and lesser types of human exploitation including: forced labour and servitudes such as debt bondage or servile marriage, as set out in the established definition of ‘trafficking in persons’.
Human trafficking (International law) --- Slavery --- Forced labor (International law) --- Slave trade --- Slavery (International law) --- Human rights --- Crimes against humanity --- International criminal law --- Law and legislation. --- Law and legislation --- Human trafficking. --- Forced prostitution (Human trafficking) --- People trafficking --- Sex trafficking --- Traffic in persons --- Trafficking in human beings --- Trafficking in persons --- White slave traffic --- White slavery --- Sex crimes --- Slavery - Law and legislation --- White slave traffic (Human trafficking) --- White slavery (Human trafficking) --- Offenses against the person
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