commissions

• refugee commission

  • Nansen passport was created for refugees to return home
  • LoN provided camps for refugees during war in Turkey
  • treated diseases like cholera + dysentery in camps
  • not much funding so had to be creative
• working conditions / international labour commission

  • banned poisonous white lead from paint
  • limited working hours for children
  • campaigned for a 48 hour work week and 8 hour day
  • severe lack of funds and power
  • could only 'name and shame' countries
• health committee

  • sponsored research at Singapore, London, Denmark
  • developed vaccines + medicines for leprosy + malaria
  • continued as World Health Organisation
  • helped non-members like Russia and Germany
• slavery commission

  • freed 200,000 slaves in Sierra Leone
  • challenged use of slaves to build Tanganyika railway (death rate 50% to 4%)
  • Jordan + Iraq abolished slavery all together
  • slavery still exists today though