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  • Scope note: Includes ethnic, language, political, racial, religious and sexual minorities Narrower terms: LANGUAGE MINORITIES SEXUAL MINORITIES Related terms: AHMADIYAHS ASIAN AMERICANS BAHA'I COMMUNITY BASQUES BLACKS COLOUREDS CROATS DISCRIMINATION ENCLAVED GROUPS ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS ETHNIC CONFLICT EURASIANS GROUP CONFLICT PREVENTION INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INTERCOMMUNAL NEGOTIATIONS JEWS POPULATION TRANSFERS PUERTO RICANS PYGMIES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ROMA SEGREGATION SERBS SIKHS TIBETANS TRAVELLERS (NOMADIC PEOPLE)

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            HURC-PRM UN 59848 · Document · 1959.01
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            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, exchanging views while awaiting the opening of one of the meetings of the Sub-Commission, are Mr. J. Machowski (Poland) and Mr. Theodore Spaulding (USA).

            HURC-PRM UN 59845 · Document · 1959.01
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            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).

            HURC-PRM UN 59846 · Document · 1959.01
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            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.
            Mr. Hernan Santa Cruz (Chile) and Mr. Herard Roy (Haiti), members of the Sub-Commission, exchanging views in the conference room at the end of one of the meetings of the Sub-Commission.

            HURC-PRM UN 73483 · Document · 1962.01.11
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            Mr. Franz Matsch (left), of Austria, and Mr. Wojciech Ketrzynski, of Poland, photographed as they exhanged views shortly before attending this afternoon's meeting of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.
            The current (14th) session of the 14-member Sub-Commission opened here on 8 January 1962.

            HURC-PRM UN 73482 · Document · 1962.01.11
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            Judge Philip Halpern (left), of the United States, and Mr. Jean-Marcel Bouquin, of France, photographed in the conference room shortly before the opening of this afternoon's meeting of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.
            The fourteenth session of the 14-member Sub-Commission opened here on 8 January 1962.

            Minorities
            LON/BPC/MIN · Series · 1910-1969
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            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.