P1040677

Slavery Worldwide 1953-1975

By Trigramrun
  • Period: to

    Slavery

  • China passes the State Regulation allowing prisoners to used as slaves

  • Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery

  • The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society changes its name to the Anti-Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights.

    The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society changes its name to the Anti-Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights.

  • Bhutan abolishes Slavery

  • Niger abolishes Slavery

    Slavery was not made illegal until 2003
    A Minimum estimate of 43,000 people are in slavery across Niger
  • Harry Wu Senteced to 19 years in Laogai Slave Labor Camp

    Harry Wu Senteced to 19 years in Laogai Slave Labor Camp

    Harry Wu is an activist for human rights in the People's Republic of China. Wu spent 19 years in Chinese labor camps, and is now a resident and citizen of the United States.

  • King Faisal Saudi Arabia Abolishes Slavery

    Slavery Abolished by Decree of King Faisal

  • Yemen abolishes Slavery

  • United Arab Emirates abolishes Slavery

  • The sixth World Muslim Congress pledges global support for all anti-slavery movements.

  • Oman Abolishes Slavery

  • The U.N. General Assembly adopts the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid.

    The Convention outlaws a number of inhuman acts committed for the purposes of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group over another, including exploitation of the labor of members of a racial group or groups by submitting them to forced labor.

  • Mauritania’s emancipated slaves form the “El Hor” (freedom) movement to oppose slavery.

  • The United Nations Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery is formed