This series contains congress progammes and congress reports, brochures, pamphlets, books and periodicals. The publications range in date from 1912 to 1955, although most of the documents date from the late 1920s and the 1930s. Most documents are written in English or French, some in German and very few in other languages. They deal with international youth organizations, national associations, internatinoal youth meetings, youth services and youth activities.

This series contains publications concerning Minorities and is comprised of 396 titles ranging in date from 1910 to 1969 (with greatest coverage in the 1920s and 1930s), containing brochures, bulletins, documents, Festschriften, journals, maps, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, reprints and theses (duplicate copies (40) and periodical issues (10) are included but not individually numbered). Publications concern 12 different countries and are written in 9 different languages, some items having several translations. All topics relate to Minorities and Minorities Law and include: Anti-semitism and relations with Jewish minorities; boundary disputes; folk art and cultural differences; laws of different peoples; societies and institutes; war crimes and world peace.

Many of these items are rare even though reprints and government documents may be available elsewhere.

The UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities initiates or undertakes world-wide studies on specific aspects of human rights. Now meeting at UN headquarters, the 12 experts are studying at their eleventh annual session ways of preventing discrimination in religious and political rights and in employment.

Here are three members of the Sub-Commission, photographed as they exchanged views in the conference room shortly before the opening of one of the meetings. They are (left to right): Messrs A. A. Fomin (U.S.R.R); Claude Chayet (France) and Issam Beyhum (Lebanon).