Advisory Committee on Traffic in Women and Children
The Advisory Committee on Traffic in Women and Children was a permanent committee of the League of Nations (LN), inaugurated in 1921. It was the first permanent committee of the League of Nations to address the issue of sexual trafficking, at that point in time often termed as white slave trade.
History
[edit]After the end of the First World War, there was a need to ressume the campaign against the so-called white slave trade against the sexual exploitation and trafficking of women and children for sexual slavery, and international campaign which had started in the late 19th-century.
The Advisory Committee on Traffic in Women and Children was composed by delegates from nine countries as well as representatives of associated NGOs. The purpose was to collect and investigate the reports of human trafficking reported to it by the LN and the governments of their member countries.
The Committee created the International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children.[1]
The Advisory Committee on Traffic in Women and Children became a permanent body of the LN. It continued to investigate and filed reports about the enforcement of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children.
In 1924, it was divided in to the subdivided in to the Committee on the Traffic in Women and the Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People. [2]