1. FIGHTING POVERTY, DISEASE AND INJUSTICE
Lobj: To understand how the League worked for a better world.

2. REFUGEES
Did a lot of work to get refugees and POW’s back to their home country.
400,000 POW’s were returned by the LON
1922- refugee crisis in Turkey- the LON helped people get housed and stamped out cholera, smallpox and dysentry

3. WORKING CONDITIONS Banned poisonous white lead from paint
Limited hours children were allowed to work for
Intro of a max 48 hour week – though only taken up buy a few members

4. HEALTH
The health committee (later the World Health Org) worked hard to defeat leprosy
global campaign to exterminate mosquitoes that caused yellow fever and malaria

5. TRANSPORT Made recommendations on marking shipping lanes
Produced an international highway code for all road users

6. SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Blacklisted 4 companies involved in illegal drug trade.
Freed slaves from British owed Sierra Leone
Kept careful records & provided info on drug trafficking, prostitution and slavery.

7. TASKS
Why do you think the founders of the League wanted to tackle social problems
The work of the League’s Commission affected hundreds of millions of people, yet historians write very little about this side of its work. Why do you think this is?