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Template:UN portal In the General Act of the Brussel Conference of 1889-90 the signatories "declared that they were equally animated by the firm intention of putting an end to the traffic in African slaves" and with the Convention of Saint-Germain-en-Laye of 1919, the signatories "affirmed their intention of securing the complete suppression of slavery in all its forms and of the slave trade by land and sea".

With the 1926 Slavery Convention, concrete rules and articles were decided upon, and slavery and slave trade were banned. The convention defined slavery as "the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised" and that slave trade "includes all acts involved in the capture, acquisition or disposal of a person with intent to reduce him to slavery; all acts involved in the acquisition of a slave with a view to selling or exchanging him; all acts of disposal by sale or exchange of a slave acquired with a view to being sold or exchanged, and, in general, every act of trade or transport in slaves.

Revisions were made immediately to the convention, and the definition of slavery was further defined and extended, see United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery.

The convention text can be found at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, here.

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