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Protocol to amend the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children and the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women of Full Age, New York, 1947

Signed by 8 countries, ratified by 42 countries

   Article : 1

The Parties to the present Protocol undertake that as between themselves they will, each in respect of the instruments to which it is a Party, and in accordance with the provisions of the present Protocol, attribute full legal force and effect to, and duly apply the amendments to those instruments which are set forth in the annex to the present Protocol.

   Article : 2

The Secretary-General shall prepare texts of the Conventions as revised in accordance with the present Protocol, and shall send copies for their information to the Governments of every Member of the United Nations and every non-member State to which this Protocol is open for signature or acceptance. He shall also invite Parties to any of the instruments to be amended by the present Protocol to apply the amended texts of those instruments as soon as the amendments are in force, even if they have not yet been able to become Parties to the present Protocol.

   Article : 3

The present Protocol shall be open for signature or acceptance by any of the Parties to the Convention of 30 September 1921 for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children or the Convention of 11 October 1933 for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women of Full Age, to which the Secretary-General has communicated a copy of this Protocol.

   Article : 4

States may become Parties to the present Protocol by

(a) Signature without reservation as to approval; or[3]

(b) Acceptance, which shall be effected by the deposit of a formal instrument with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

   Article : 5

1. The present Protocol shall come into force on the date on which two or more States shall have become Parties thereto.[4]

2. The amendments set forth in the annex to the present Protocol shall come into force in respect of each Convention when a majority of the Parties thereto have become Parties to the present Protocol, and consequently any State becoming a Party to either Convention after the amendments thereto have come into force, shall become a Party to the Convention as so amended.

   Article : 6

In accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations and the regulations pursuant thereto adopted by the General Assembly, the Secretary-General of the United Nations is authorized to effect registration of the present Protocol and the amendments made in each Convention by this Protocol on the respective dates of their entry into force, and to publish the Protocol and the amended Conventions as soon as possible after registration.

   Article : 7

The present Protocol, of which the Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited in the archives of the United Nations Secretariat. The Conventions to be amended in accordance with the annex being in the English and French languages only, the English and French texts of the annex shall equally be the authentic texts, and the Chinese, Russian and Spanish texts will be translations.

A certified copy of the Protocol, including the annex, shall be sent by the Secretary-General to each of the Parties to the Convention of 30 September 1921 for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children or the Convention of 11 October 1933 for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women of Full Age, as well as to all Members of the United Nations.