300. Editorial Note

On July 22, 1963, President Kennedy forwarded three human rights conventions to the Senate for advice and consent to their ratification. The conventions were: the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (18 UST 3201), ILO Convention No. 105, concerning the Abolition of Forced Labor (320 UNTS 291), and the United Nations Convention on the Political Rights of Women (27 UST 1909). For text of the President’s message to the Senate, see Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, page 586.