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During the second session of the Commission on Human Rights in 1947 the full concept of an International Bill of Rights as a three-part document - a declaration, a convention and measures of implementation - emerged. The result was first of all the Draft International Declaration on Human Rights, followed by a Draft International Covenant on Human Rights, and thirdly the Report on Measures of Implementation. Together these three parts are referred to as the International Bill of Rights.

The final text of the International Declaration of Human Rights was prepared at the third session of the Commission in 1948 and adopted on 10 December 1948 by the General Assembly.

ECOSOC during its second session (05.1946) empowered the Commission on Human Rights to establish two sub-commissions, the Sub-Commission on Protection of Minorities and the Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination. The Commission decided during its first session (01.1947) to establish a single sub-commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and the Protection of Minorites, asking that ECOSOC appoint the members of the sub-commission from a list of names provided by the Commission.

These records document the early work of the Sub-Commission as it addressed the protection of minorities and in particular the question of whether and to what extent the treaties and declarations of 1919 and thereafter concerning minorities should be regarded as being still in force.