Advisory Social Welfare Services

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1950.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1948–1951

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What subjects does this mandate have?

3 topics

Advisory Services Budgeting Social Welfare

What does this mandate say?

12 operative paragraphs

Directs the Secretary-General :

Hereby agree as hereinafter provided:

To include an amount for these services in the budget of the United Nations in the future;

( b) For I 950, to continue this work at approx- The Parties to the present Convention agree to punish any person who, to gratify the passions of imately the same level of expenditure on the part another: of the United :-J ations as in 1949;

Procures, entices or leads away, for purposes of

Requests the Economic and Social Council prostitution, another person, even with the consent of to review the terms of resolution 58 (I), in the that person ; light of the provisions of paragraph 1 above and

Exploits the prostitution of another person, even in the light of the discussions and suggestions with the consent of that person. made in the Third Committee of the General Assembly, and to recommend to the next regular session of the General Assembly any modifications The Parties to the present Convention further which it may consider necessary therein.

agree to punish any person who :

Keeps or manages, or knowingly finances or

takes part in the financing of a brothel;

17 November 1949.

Knowingly lets or rents a building or other place or any part thereof for the purpose of the prostitution

SI 7 (IV). Convention for the Suppresof others.

sion of the Traffic in Persons and To the extent permitted by domestic law, attempts

o.f the Exploitation of the Prostito commit any of the offences referred to in articles

tution of Others 1 and 2, and acts preparatory to the commission thereof, shall also be punished.

The General Assembly Approves the following Convention, and proposes that each Member of the United Nations To the extent permitted by domestic law, intentional participation in the acts referred to in articles and each non-member State which the appropriate organ of the United Nations may invite to

To the extent permitted by domestic law, acts of participation shall be treated as separate offences

whenever this is necessary to prevent impnnity.

2 December 1949.

Annex In cases where injured persons are entitled under Text of the Convention domestic law to be parties to proceedings in respect of any of the offences referred to in the present Convention, aliens shall be so entitled upon the same terms as nationals.

Whereas prostitution and the accompanying evil of the traffic in persons for the purpose of prostitution are incompatible with the dignity and worth of the Each Party to the present Convention agrees to human person and endanger the welfare of the inditake all the necessary measures to repeal or abolish vidual, the family and the community,

any existing law, regulation or administrative provision by virtue of which persons who engage in or Whereas, with respect to the suppression of the are suspected of engaging in prostitution are subject traffic in women and children, the following international instruments are in force:

either to special registration or to the possession of a special document or to any exceptional requirements I. International Agreement of 18 May 1904 for for supervision or notification. the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic, as amended by the Protocol• approved by the General Assembly of the United Nat ions on 3 December 1948,

Previous convictions pronounced in foreign States

International Convention of 4 Mav 1910 for for offences referred to in the present Convention the Suppression of the White Slave ·Traffic, as shall, to the extent permitted by domestic law, be amended by the above-mentioned Protocol,

taken into account for the purpose of:

International Convention of 30 September 1921

Establishing recidivism; for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and

Disqualifying the offender from the exercise of Children, as amended by the Protocol• approved by the civil rights. General Assembly of the United Nations on 20 October 1947,

International Convention of 11 October 1933 The offences referred to in articles 1 and 2 of the for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women of Full present Convention shall be regarded as extraditable Age, as amended by the aforesaid Protocol,

offences in any extradition treaty which has been or

• See Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly • See Official Records of the second session of the during the second part of its first session, page 93.

General Assembly, Resolutions, page 32.

• See Official Records of the third session uf the Gen- • See League of Nations Official Journal, 18th Year, eral Assembly, Part I, Resolutions, page 165.

No. 12, page 955.

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