(i) A woman, without the right to refuse, is promised or given in marriage on payment of a
consideration in money or in kind to her parents, guardian, family or any other person or group; or
(ii) The husband of a woman, his family, or his clan, has the right to transfer her to another person
for value received or otherwise; or
(iii) A woman on the death of her husband is liable to be inherited by another person;
(d) Any institution or practice whereby a child or young person under the age of 18 years, is delivered by either
or both of his natural parents or by his guardian to another person, whether for reward or not, with a view to the
exploitation of the child or young person or of his labour.
Article 2
With a view to bringing to an end the institutions and practices mentioned in article 1 (c) of this Convention, the
States Parties undertake to prescribe, where appropriate, suitable minimum ages of marriage, to encourage the
use of facilities whereby the consent of both parties to a marriage may be freely expressed in the presence of a
competent civil or religious authority, and to encourage the registration of marriages.
Section II. - The slave trade
Article 3
1. The act of conveying or attempting to convey slaves from one country to another by whatever means of
transport, or of being accessory thereto, shall be a criminal offence under the laws of the States Parties to this
Convention and persons convicted thereof shall be liable to very severe penalties.
2. (a) The States Parties shall take all effective measures to prevent ships and aircraft authorized to fly their
flags from conveying slaves and to punish persons guilty of such acts or of using national flags for that purpose.
(b) The States Parties shall take all effective measures to ensure that their ports, airfields and coasts are not
used for the conveyance of slaves.
3. The States Parties to this Convention shall exchange information in order to ensure the practical co-ordination
of the measures taken by them in combating the slave trade and shall inform each other of every case of the
slave trade, and of every attempt to commit this criminal offence, which comes to their notice.
Article 4
Any slave who takes refuge on board any vessel of a State Party to this Convention shall ipso facto be free.
Section III. - Slavery and institutions and practices similar to slavery
Article 5
In a country where the abolition or abandonment of slavery, or of the institutions or practices mentioned in
article 1 of this Convention, is not yet complete, the act of mutilating, branding or otherwise marking a slave or a
person of servile status in order to indicate his status, or as a punishment, or for any other reason, or of being
accessory thereto, shall be a criminal offence under the laws of the States Parties to this Convention and persons
convicted thereof shall be liable to punishment.
Article 6
1. The act of enslaving another person or of inducing another person to give himself or a person dependent upon
him into slavery, or of attempting these acts, or being accessory thereto, or being a party to a conspiracy to
accomplish any such acts, shall be a criminal offence under the laws of the States Parties to this Convention and
persons convicted thereof shall be liable to punishment.
2. Subject to the provisions of the introductory paragraph of article 1 of this Convention, the provisions of
paragraph 1 of the present article shall also apply to the act of inducing another person to place himself or a
person dependent upon him into the servile status resulting from any of the institutions or practices mentioned
in article 1, to any attempt to perform such acts, to being accessory thereto, and to being a party to a conspiracy
to accomplish any such acts.
Section IV. - Definitions
Article 7
For the purposes of the present Convention:
(a) "Slavery" means, as defined in the Slavery Convention of 1926, the status or condition of a person over
whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised, and "slave" means a person in
such condition or status;
(b) "A person of servile status" means a person in the condition or status resulting from any of the institutions or
practices mentioned in article 1 of this Convention;
(c) "Slave trade" means and 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