The World Anti-Slavery Convention is organized by…
June 1840 CE
Arguments over the exclusion of women from the convention have important ramifications for the movement for women's suffrage in the United States.
The Society owes its origins to the radical element of an older Anti-Slavery Society, known as the "Agency Committee of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions", which had substantially achieved abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
The successor organization, the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, had been created in 1839 to campaign against the practice of slavery in other countries.
The world's oldest international human rights organization, in 1990 it will be relaunched as "Anti-Slavery International", which works to combat slavery and related abuse.
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