commissions

Cards (4)

  • 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