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• Teams were sent to the Third World to dig fresh water wells.
• The Health Organisation started a campaign to wipe out
leprosy.
• Work was done in Third World countries to improve the status
of women and tackle child slave labour.
• Drug addiction and drug smuggling were also attacked.
• These social problems may have continued but the fact that
they were actively investigated by the League must be
viewed as a success.
Successes of the League of Nations
• Popular with many people
• Did settle some disputes
• Promoted co-operation between countries
• Helped more than 400,000 prisoners of war return
home.
• Helped more than 1.5 million refugees in Europe.
• International Health Organisation helped improve
knowledge of killer diseases like malaria.
• Slavery made illegal world wide in 1927
• International Labour Organisation campaigned for
better working conditions
– It wrote an international agreement on the hours children
could work.
The failures of the League of
Nations
Article 11 of the League’s Covenant stated: