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Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery
The Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery (ACE) was a permanent committee of the League of Nations, inaugurated in 1933. It was the first permanent slavery committee of the League of Nations, which was founded after a decade of work addressing the issue of slavery by temporary committees within the League.
The ACE conducted a global investigation concerning slavery, slave trade and force labor, and recommended solutions to address the issue. Its work lay the ground for the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery of 1956.
The League of Nations had conducted an active work against chattel slavery and slave trade from the early 1920s. The investigation of the Temporary Slavery Commission (TSC) had resulted in the introduction of the 1926 Slavery Convention. In 1932 the Committee of Experts on Slavery (CES) was established to investigate the efficiency of the 1926 Slavery Convention. The result convinced the League of the need to establish a permanent committee to address the issue.
The ACE were not to be authorized to conduct investigations directly, but only to accept documented information from governments. It was to be purely advisory and its proceedings confidential, composed of seven independent experts, appointed indefinitely, who were to study the documented evidence and submit reports to suggest methods to approve the work to end slavery and the slave trade. The slavery addressed was to be chattel slavery, not forced labor.
In 1933 the CES established the first permanent slavery committee, the Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery (ACE). The ACE held its first meeting the following year, and met annually five times between 1934 and 1938.
The Anti-Slavery Society celebrated the establishment of the ACE, which was established on the centenary of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, as the final end of slavery, Reginald Coupland expressed the hope that "the appropriate machinery" to ensure the execution of the 1926 Slavery Convention had been created, and that he had no doubt that "except perhaps in remote and unsettled regions of the world beyond the reach of civilized opinion, the final eradication ... of slavery" had been assured.
The ACE conducted a major international investigation on chattel slavery and slave trade. The committee asked for reports from all member countries of the League of Nations, including the major colonial empires of the time. The governments were asked to report of all forms of slavery and slave trade taking place within the territories under their control, which the member countries of League as subject of the 1926 Slavery Convention were expected to actively oppose.
The issues discussed were the Mui tsai issue, debt bondage and serfdom; the status of women and discriminatory marriage customs were debated, but a difficult issue, and postphoned in 1936.
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Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery
The Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery (ACE) was a permanent committee of the League of Nations, inaugurated in 1933. It was the first permanent slavery committee of the League of Nations, which was founded after a decade of work addressing the issue of slavery by temporary committees within the League.
The ACE conducted a global investigation concerning slavery, slave trade and force labor, and recommended solutions to address the issue. Its work lay the ground for the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery of 1956.
The League of Nations had conducted an active work against chattel slavery and slave trade from the early 1920s. The investigation of the Temporary Slavery Commission (TSC) had resulted in the introduction of the 1926 Slavery Convention. In 1932 the Committee of Experts on Slavery (CES) was established to investigate the efficiency of the 1926 Slavery Convention. The result convinced the League of the need to establish a permanent committee to address the issue.
The ACE were not to be authorized to conduct investigations directly, but only to accept documented information from governments. It was to be purely advisory and its proceedings confidential, composed of seven independent experts, appointed indefinitely, who were to study the documented evidence and submit reports to suggest methods to approve the work to end slavery and the slave trade. The slavery addressed was to be chattel slavery, not forced labor.
In 1933 the CES established the first permanent slavery committee, the Advisory Committee of Experts on Slavery (ACE). The ACE held its first meeting the following year, and met annually five times between 1934 and 1938.
The Anti-Slavery Society celebrated the establishment of the ACE, which was established on the centenary of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, as the final end of slavery, Reginald Coupland expressed the hope that "the appropriate machinery" to ensure the execution of the 1926 Slavery Convention had been created, and that he had no doubt that "except perhaps in remote and unsettled regions of the world beyond the reach of civilized opinion, the final eradication ... of slavery" had been assured.
The ACE conducted a major international investigation on chattel slavery and slave trade. The committee asked for reports from all member countries of the League of Nations, including the major colonial empires of the time. The governments were asked to report of all forms of slavery and slave trade taking place within the territories under their control, which the member countries of League as subject of the 1926 Slavery Convention were expected to actively oppose.
The issues discussed were the Mui tsai issue, debt bondage and serfdom; the status of women and discriminatory marriage customs were debated, but a difficult issue, and postphoned in 1936.
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