Colonialism, Slavery, Trade, Reparations
Remedying the 'Past'?
Legal texts
Treaties and conventions
League of Nations / United Nations
1926 Slavery Convention (adopted 25 September 1926, entered into force 9 March 1927) 60 LNTS 253
Protocol amending the Slavery Convention signed at Geneva on 25 September 1926 (adopted 7 December 1953, entered into force 7 December 1953) 182 UNTS 51
Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (adopted 7 September 1956, entered into force 30 April 1957) 266 UNTS 6
Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (adopted 2 December 1949, entered into force 25 July 1951) 96 UNTS 271
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (adopted 21 December 1965, entered into force 4 January 1969) 160 UNTS 195
International Labour Organization (ILO)
ILO Convention No. 29 concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour (adopted 28 June 1930, entered into force 01 May 1932)
ILO Convention No. 105 concerning the Abolition of Forced Labour (adopted 25 June 1957, entered into force 17 Jan 1959)
Declarations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), UN General Assembly Res 271 A (III) (10 December 1948)
'Declaration and Programme of Action', the First (1978) World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (Geneva 14-25 August 1978)(United Nations Publication, Sales No. E. 79.XIV.2, chap.II)
'Declaration and Programme of Action' (scroll down the page), the Second (1983) World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (Geneva 1-12 August 1983)(United Nations Publication, Sales No. E.83 XIV.4, chap. II)
World Conference against Racism Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance 'The Durban Declaration and Programme of Action' (Durban 31 August-8 September 2001)
Commemoration of the two-hundreth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade (pdf), UN General Assembly resolution 61/19 (28 November 2006)
Follow-ups to the World Conferences to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination
The Durban Declaration and Programme of Action has been reviewed at the Durban Review Conference, Geneva, 20-24 April 2009
General Recommendation No. 28: The follow-up to the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (19 March 2002)
General recommendation No. 33 Follow-up to the Durban Review Conference (pdf), the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (29 September 2009)
General recommendation No. 34 adopted by the Committee Racial discrimination against people of African descent (pdf), the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (3 October 2011)
