32/1936 Sb.
THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION
about combating adult women
On behalf of the Czechoslovak Republic on behalf of the Czechoslovak Republic,
Albanie, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
The Union of South Africa, Australia, Bulgaria, Chile, China, free city
Gdanska, Spain, France, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Monaco, Norway, Panama, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sweden,
Switzerland and Yugoslavia
This Convention was agreed:
(Translation)
THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION
about combating adult women
His Majesty the King of the Albanians; President of the German Empire; Federal
President of the Republic of Austria; His Majesty the King of Aquitania. His
Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British colonies,
Emperor of India; His Majesty the King of the Bulgarians; President of the Republic
Chile; the President of the National Government of the Republic of China; President of the Republic
Polish for the free city of Gdansk; the Spanish President of the Republic;
President of the Republic, the French Republic, the president of the Greek; His
The brightest Highness Kingdom of Hungarian Manager; President of the Republic
Latvian; President of the Republic of Lithuania; His Highness the Prince of the brightest
Monaco; His Majesty the King of Norway; President of the Republic of Panama;
Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands; President of the Republic of Poland;
the Portuguese President of the Republic, his Majesty the King of Sweden;
The Swiss Federal Council; the President of the Czechoslovak Republic; His
Majesty King of Yugoslavia,
Desiring to better end the Suppression of trade in women and children;
Vzavše note of the recommendations contained in the report submitted to the Council of the company
Nations komitétem dealing with combating the trade of women and children on his
the twelfth session;
Rozhodnuvše with doplniti a new Convention the agreement of 18 May. in May 1904, and
Convention of 4. in May 1910, and 30. September 1921 for the Suppression of trade in women and
children,
Established for this purpose, its plnomocníky:
His Majesty the King of the Albanians:
p. Lec Kurti-and,
the Minister-delegate for residenta, the standing of Nations.
President of the German Reich:
Dr. Woermanna,
legačního advice.
The Federal president of the Republic of Austria:
Dr. History [Edit] Schiffner,
legačního Council, Deputy Head of the Legal Department
the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
His Majesty the King of Aquitania:
p. j. Mélota,
the extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister.
His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British overseas
dominions, Emperor of India:
For the Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as all parts of the British Empire,
which are not separate members of the League of Nations:
Velectihodného W. G. A. Ormsby Gore, M.P.,
the first Commissioner of public works.
For the Australian Federation of States:
Velectihodného S. M. Bruce, C.H., M.C., M.P.
For The Union Of South Africa:
p. c. t. Te Water-and,
The High Commissioner in London.
His Majesty the King of the Bulgarians:
p. Dimitri Mikoff-and,
Chargé d'affaires in Berne, the Permanent Representative of
at the League of Nations
President of the Republic of Chile:
Mr. Enrique j. Gajardo,
the preferred Standing Office at the League of Nations.
The President of the National Government of the Republic of China:
Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo,
the extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of
the President of the Republic of France, Council representative
The League of Nations.
p. Quo Tai-Chi,
the extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of
for his Majesty the King.
President of the Republic of Poland for the free city of Gdansk:
p. Eduardo Raczyňski-ho,
the authorized Minister, delegate at the League of Nations.
President of the Republic Spanish:
Lady Isabella Oyarzabal de Palencia.
President of the French Republic:
Mr. Jules was first issued,
Honorary President of the section of the State Council.
President of the Hellenic Republic:
p. r. Raphael,
The Permanent delegate at the League of Nations.
His Brightest Highness Kingdom of Hungarian Manager:
p. Ladislas de Tahvár et Tarkeö Strokes,
the extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of
for the Federal Council of the Swiss delegation, preferred
at the League of Nations.
President of the Republic of Latvia:
Mr. Jules Feldmanse,
the extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of
the Swiss Federal Council, the Permanent delegate
at the League of Nations.
President of the Republic of Lithuania:
p. Vaclovas Sidzikauskas-e,
the extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of
in His British Majesty and of the Federal Council of the Swiss.
His Highness the Prince of Monaco: the brightest
p. Xavier-John Raisin-and,
Consulate-General in Geneva.
His Majesty the King of Norway:
p Peter Hersleb Birkeland-and,
legačního Council, delegate at the League of Nations Standing.
President of the Republic of Panama:
Dr. Raoul a. Amador-and,
Minister-residenta.
Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands:
p. j. Limburga,
Member of the State Council.
President of the Republic of Poland:
p. Eduardo Raczyňski-ho,
the authorized Minister, delegate at the League of Nations.
President of the Portuguese Republic:
Dr. José Caetano Lobo d ' Avila Lima,
the extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of
for the Federal Council of the Swiss.
His Majesty the King of Sweden:
p. k. i. Westmana,
the extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of
for the Federal Council of the Swiss.
Swiss Federal Council:
p. František Stämpfli-ho,
the Prosecutor of the Confederation;
p. Camille Gorgé-ho,
the first preferred Department in the Federal
the political Department.
The President of the Republic:
p. Rudolf Künzel-Jizera,
the extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of
the Swiss Federal Council, the Permanent delegate
at the League of Nations.
His Majesty the King of the South Slavic:
p. Constantina Fotiče,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary,
the Permanent delegate at the League of Nations.
Who předloživše their full powers, found in good and due
the form, they agreed on the following provisions:
Article 1
Who satisfied his lust to second, hires, lead or supplies an
a woman or girl to be with her consent, for the purpose of the heart in another
the State will be punished even if the individual actions that make up the
merits of the crime, committed in different States.
An attempt is also punishable. The same shall apply within the limits of the law of
the preparatory meeting.
The term "State" means under this article as well as settlements and protectorates
the participating High Contracting Parties, as well as the territory under its sovereignty, and
territories over which it was entrusted with the mandate.
Article 2
The High Contracting Parties whose legislation was not enough already now to
have been suppressed the offences referred to in the preceding article, shall undertake to
to take action, which is the need to make these offences
punished appropriately according to their gravity.
Article 3
The High Contracting Parties undertake to communicate to any person without
the difference of gender, who committed or attempted to spáchati crime
provided for in this Convention or in the conventions of 1910 and 1921, relating to
combating the trade in women and children, if they have been or should be if the activities
forming the substance of the offence were committed in different countries,
the following information (or information similar to that provided for under national
laws and regulations may be submitted):
a) convictions with all other necessary information of the
the offender, for example. about his personal State, its description, its fingerprints,
his photographs, papers related to his police, his way of criminal
activities, etc.;
(b)) whether the offender was the subject of a removal order or termination.
The following documents and information will be sent to you directly and without delay to the authorities
the participating States in each specific case of the authorities designated in article
the first agreement concluded in Paris 18. May 1904. Sending will be done
in any case, as far as possible the detection of an offence, conviction,
expulsion or termination.
Article 4
There is a contradiction between the High Contracting Parties in the interpretation or
the implementation of this Convention or the conventions of 1910 and 1921, and if it is not possible to
This discrepancy to the satisfaction of řešiti will be settled through diplomatic channels, according to the
provisions in force between the parties concerning the settlement of international disputes.
In the event that such legislation was not between the parties,
subjected to arbitration or court proceedings. If there is no agreement on the choice of
another court, the dispute shall submit at the request of one of them to the Permanent Court of
International Justice, if they are all involved in the Protocol of
16 December 2002. December 1920 on the Statute of the Court and, if they are not on it all
involved, drawn up by the Court of arbitration of the Hague Convention of
October 18, 1907 on the amicable settlement of international disputes.
Article 5
This Convention, of which the French and English texts are equally authentic,
He will have today's date and will be until the first of April 1934 open for
signature by all members of the League of Nations and to all States-non-Member States that
were represented at the Conference which drew up the Convention or
which the Council of the League of Nations for this purpose a copy of the this Convention shall communicate to the.
Article 6
This Convention shall be ratified. The instruments of ratification shall be surrendered
the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, that their composition shall notify the
all members and non-members States-referred to in the preceding article.
Article 7
Starting with 1. April 1934 to be able to přistoupiti to this Convention, each Member
The League of Nations and each Member State referred to in article 5.
The instrument of accession shall be surrendered to the Secretary General of the company
Nations that have composition shall inform all members of Nations and
States-non-Member States referred to in that article.
Article 8
This Convention shall enter into force sixty days after the receipt by the Secretary-General
The League of Nations receives two ratifications or approaches.
It will be written by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations on the day
it enters into force.
The later ratification or approaches will take effect after the expiration of time
60 days, from the date on which the Secretary General is received.
Article 9
This Convention will be vypověděti notification to the
the Secretary-General of the League of Nations. Denunciation shall take effect for a year.
the date on which occurs and only with regard to the High Contracting Parties,
it to be notified.
Article 10
Each of the High Contracting Parties will be able to make a Mormon out when signing,
ratification or accession, this Convention, Germans přijímajíc on no
the commitment in respect of the whole or any part of its colonies,
protectorates, overseas territories, the territory under its sovereignty or territory,
over which the entrusted mandate.
Each of the High Contracting Parties will be able to make a Mormon out later
the Secretary-General of the League of Nations that this Convention shall apply to the
all or any part of the territory, which is spoken in the Declaration referred to in
the previous paragraph. This declaration shall take effect sixty days
then, when it comes.
Each of the High Contracting Parties will be able to odvolati at any time in whole or in
the Declaration referred to in part 2. paragraph. In this case, enter
appeal into force one year after, when the Secretary-General of the
The League of Nations.
The Secretary-General shall notify all the members of the League of Nations and the
-non-members States referred to in paragraph 5 of the denunciations referred to in article 9, and
declarations, which it runs out under this article.
Paragraph 3 of article first applies even when the Declaration referred to in the first
paragraph of this article.
Making whereof the top-placing plnomocníci signed this Convention.
Done at Geneva, this eleventh day of October in the year one thousand devítistého of the 30th
third, in a single copy which shall be deposited in the archives of
the Secretariat of the League of Nations, and certified true copies of which shall be issued to all
the members of the League of Nations and States-non-Member States referred to in article 5.
Albanie
Lec Kurti
Germany
Woermann
Austria
Dr. Erhard Schiffner Told
Belgium
Subject to article 10
J. And
Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
as well as all parts of the British
Empire which are not separate
the members of the League of Nations
William G. A. Ormsby Gore
Australia
S. M. Bruce
The South African Union
C. T. Te Water
Bulgaria
D. Mikoff
Chile
Enrique J. Gajardo In.
China
V. K. Wellington Koo
Quo Tai-Chi
Free city of Gdansk
Eduard Raczyňski
Spain
Isabel de Palencia Oyarzabal
France
Jules Gautier
Greece
R Raphael
Hungary
Ladislas de Strokes
Latvia
J. Feldmans
Lithuania
Vaclovas Sidzikauskas
Monaco
Xavier Raisin
Norway
Subject to ratification
Hersleb Birkeland
Panama
R. A. Amador
The Netherlands
Including the Netherlands India, Surinam and Curacao
Limburg
Poland
Eduard Raczyňski
Portugal
J. Lobo d ' Avila Lima
Sweden
K. I. Westman
Subject to the ratification of the j. f. King in Swedish
with the approval of Plans
Swiss
Stämpfli
C. Gorgé
Czechoslovakia
Rudolf-Jizerský Künzl
Yugoslavia
Constantin Fotitch
Prozkoumavše endorsement of this Convention, and we confirm it.
The conscience we have signed this sheet and the seal of the Republic
The Czechoslovak přitisknouti dali.
In lány on 25 April. June 30th devítistého the fifth one thousand years.
The President of the Republic:
T. g. Masaryk in r.
L.S.
Minister of Foreign Affairs:
Dr. Edvard Beneš in r.
Is announced, adding that the ratification instrument in the Czech Republic
She was ceded to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations on 27.
July 1935, so the Convention became for the Republic of Czechoslovakia according to the
article. 8 the international scope of the day 25. September 1935.
Convention are bound by that date, the following States: Afghanistan, Bulgaria,
Chile, Iran, Norway, Romania, the Sudan, Sweden and Switzerland.
The following are bound: Hungary (from the date of October 12, 1935), Latvia (from 17.
November, 1935) and the Netherlands (from November 20, 1935).
Dr. Edvard Beneš in r.
