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The Commission on Human Rights was authorized by ECOSOC (06.1946) to call in ad hoc groups of non-governmental experts in specialized fields with the approval of the President of the Council and the Secretary-General. In March 1951 the Council invited the ILO to cooperate in the establishment of an Ad Hoc Committee on Forced Labour of not more than five independent members.

The first session of the Ad Hoc Committee was held in Geneva in October 1951. Its terms of reference include the completion of a survey and, thereafter, a study of systems of forced labour. The Committee studied the definition of forced labour embodied in the ILO Convention as well.

The question of conscientious objection came before the Commission on Human Rights in 1950, with a proposal calling for an addition to Article 16 of the draft International Covenant on Human Rights recognizing this as a right. These records include the documentation prepared for Commission by the Division of Human Rights and the Service Civil International, an NGO. They include correspondence with individuals and organizations.

The Division of Human Rights was charged with responding to communications dealing with human rights from individuals, groups and governments to the Secretary-General. In accordance with ECOSOC resolutions 75 and 116A, these communications were compiled and communicated to the Commission on Human Rights and to governments concerned.

With the creation of the ad hoc Commission on Questions of Prisoners of War the Division supported the three member Commission in its work on the repatriation of prisoners of war.

In addition to the question of prisoners of war, the plight of survivors, notably those that had been subject to scientific experiments by Nazi doctors, was a humanitarian problem which the Secretariat approached in an unorthodox way. Not only was the Division of Human Rights charged with the task of bringing to the attention of the German government individual case information on victims, but the Director and Assistant Director of the Division traveled to Germany for the purpose of direct negotiations with the German authorities regarding legislation enabling compensation for the victims.

This series of records documents the work of the Division concerning victims of war and includes records from the Diplomatic Conference in Geneva in 1949 that established the four Geneva Conventions.

The records consist of correspondence between the Congress of Canadian Women and individuals and the Division of Human Rights concerning the inhuman treatment of political prisoners in Korea.

Records, arranged by country, regarding the creation of local human rights committees or information groups to collaborate in furthering the work of the Commission on Human Rights, as encouraged by ECOSOC (by resolution, June 1946).