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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