"He has also contributed to the development of important international conventions on children's rights".
In this month's podcast, we'll look at forced labour and the role of international conventions in offering protection; the realities of working on the frontline against slavery; some of the trends in the anti-slavery movement; and the Centre of Social Justice report into the failures of the UK government to address human trafficking.
Michael Irwin's The Skull and the Nightingale (HarperCollins) is a bold and witty appropriation of the conventions, style, and idiom of the 18th-century epistolary novel that brilliantly recreates the manners, modes of thought and conduct of the teeming world of London.
There are now more legal drugs on sale than were even dreamed of when the first global drug laws were written: the 1961 and 1971 UN drug conventions proscribe just 234.
But I think the conventions of film-making always bored him as much as they inspired him.
Morgan said: "Our armed forces should certainly not be above the law.That is why the Geneva conventions should apply when they are on active operations.Human rights law simply has no place on the battlefield".
His avoidance of showers or baths supposedly dated back to his youth, and is variously explained by a disdain for bourgeoise conventions or, more charitably, a fear of asthma attacks brought on by cold water.
It also neatly tied together all of the conventions of quest-based multiplayer role-playing games: players took on a specific class of character – fighter, wizard, thief, etc – then "leveled up" by killing enemies with a range of weapons and spells, before collecting experience points and loot.
There we were preparing to thumb through the Cabinet Manual on the "laws, conventions and rules on the operation of government" when the exit poll came through.
Japan has killed more than 10,000 whales under the programme since 1988, according to Canberra, allegedly putting it in breach of international conventions and its obligation to preserve marine mammals and their environment.
KimeCurran gives a good impression of what some of those truths may be: It's the book I hand to friends when I know they're struggling with a decision, because to me it's a sort of handbook to finding your way in life – and not always the way that the "stifling conventions of provincial life" dictate.
