How it worked for a better world Flashcards
aimed to fight….
poverty, disease, injustice
much was done by….
commissions
disarmament commission……
worked to persuade members c to reduce size of their armed forces and stocks of weapons
mandates commission….
kept an eye on G and Turkish colonies which were under temporary control of B and F
refugees….
first few years they got 400,000 prisoners of war back to homeland
in 1922 a refugee crisis hit Turkey n the league quickly acted to stamp out cholera, smallpox and dysentery in r camps
working conditions……
the International Labour Organistaion banned poisonous white led from paint
limited hours small children were allowed to work
campainged for workers condidtions
introduced 48 hour week and 8 hour day but only minority of m adopted bc it’d raise costs in their own homelands
health…..
the Health Committee worked hard to defeat diease leprosy.
started global campaigan to exterminate mosquitoes which reduced cases of malaria n yellow fever
even russia which opposed the L used the HC to prevent plague in Siberia
transport…..
made recommendations on marking shipping lanes and produced an international highway code for road users
social problems…..
blacklisted 4 larfe G, Dutch F and Swiss companies involved in illegal drug trade
freeing slaves in British-owned Sierra Leone
organise raids against slave owners in Burma
challenged the use of forced labour to bulud Tanganyika railway in Africa. the death rate was 50% but the L’s pressure bought this down to 4%
where it could not remove social injustice it kept records of slavery, drug tarfficking and prostitution
Permanent Court of Justice
based in holland n sorted out legal disputes between countries
Secretariat
based in geneva had a job of sorting out paperwork and general organisation of all these agencies
