One hundred years ago, the League of Nations adopted the Slavery Convention, the first international treaty to define slavery and to bind governments to suppress the slave trade and bring about the abolition of slavery in all its forms. The centennial is a moment to measure that promise against the work of abolition that is still unfinished.
Ambassador John Cotton Richmond places the Convention’s centennial in context. Read the full article at CSIS.
Ambassador John Cotton Richmond is President of the Libertas Council. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and as a federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit.
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