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Economic and Social Council

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Ad Hoc Committee on Forced Labor: Following the practice adopted at its first session, the second and third sessions of the Ad Hoc Committee on Forced Labor were held in private; Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar (India) served as chairman and rapporteur for both sessions. The principal item on the agenda of the second session – New York, June 2–July 1, 1952 – was the study of replies of governments to the questionnaire submitted after the first session and of documentation submitted by the Secretariat and non-governmental organizations. Replies had been received from 42 states and 16 non-governmental organizations. The committee decided to extend from March 31, 1952, to June 15, 1952 the time limit for reception of material or requests for hearings and later decided to interpret this limitation flexibly, especially if the evidence offered aimed at rebutting other evidence before the committee. Requests for hearings were granted to the Association of Former Political Prisoners of Soviet Labour Camps, Council of Free Czechoslovakia, Estonian Consultative Panel, Hungarian National Council, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, International League for the Rights of Man, Latvian Consultative Panel, Lithuanian Consultative Panel, National Committee for a Free Europe, and the Rumanian National Committee. The committee authorized its chairman to prepare letters, for consideration at a later session, informing individual governments of the allegations made against them.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: I. United Nations
Information
International Organization , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , May 1953 , pp. 258 - 266
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1953

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References

1 For information on the first session, see International Organization, VI, p. 102.

2 See document E/AC.36/11 and addenda.

3 For the report of the second session to the Economic and Social Council and the International Labor Organization, see document E/2276, July 3, 1952.

4 For the report of the third session to ECOSOC and ILO, see document E/2341, November 22, 1952.

5 Document E/CN.11/362, 1953. The Surveywas also issued as Number 3 of Volume III of the Economic Bulletin for Asia and the Far East.

6 Document E/CN.11/352, November 4, 1952.

7 Document E/CN.11/354, September 17, 1952.

8 For information on the sixth session of the commission, see International Organization, V, p. 564–565.

9 For the draft report of the commission to Economic and Social Council, see document E/CN.9/L.46, January 26, 1953 and corregenda and addenda.

10 Document E/CN.3/SR.84, February 16, 1953.

11 Document E/CN.3/142 and E/CN.3/142/Add.1 and 2.

12 For documents on these topics, see E/CN. 3/143 through E/CN.3/147.

13 Document E/CN.3/148.

14 For information on the fourth meeting of the sub-commission, see International Organization, VI, p. 101; for information on resolutions of ECOSOC pertaining to the work of the subcommission, see ibid., p. 605.

15 Members of the sub-commission serve in their capacity as experts and not as representatives of their governments. The governments appointing individual experts are indicated for purposes of information.

16 Document E/CN.4/Sub.2/SR.84, October 10, 1952.

17 Document E/CN.4/Sub.2/CR/4, September 22, 1952.

18 Document E/CN.4/669, October 23, 1952, p. 9.

19 Document E/CN.4/Sub.2/SR.86, October 16, 1952, p. 3–6; document E/CN.4/Sub.2/SR.88, October 16, 1952, p. 7/10.

20 See document E/CN.4/669, October 23, 1952, for the report of the sub-commission to the Commission on Human Rights.

21 For information on the draft definition adopted at the third meeting of the sub-commission, see International Organization, IV, p. 282. At the time of the fifth meeting of the subcommission, the Commission on Human Rights had not yet taken action on the proposed definition.

22 Mr. Hiscocks (United Kingdom) and Mr. Nisot (Belgium) voted against the entire resolution because they felt this part of the resolution gave attention to the minorities of a certain part of the world – trust and non-self-governing territories – and also because they felt the sub-commission not competent to conlution sider information presented on trust or non-self-governing territories.

23 Economic and Social Council, Official Records (15th session), Supplement 4Google Scholar. For information on the fifth session of the commission, see International Organization, V, p. 184, 348, 577.

24 Document E/CN.2/119, July 22, 1952.

25 Document E/CN.2/133, October 24, 1952.

26 Document E/CN.2/139, December 23, 1952.

27 Document E/CN.2/128, October 8, 1952.

28 For previous information on the UNICEF, see International Organization, VI, p. 417Google Scholar.

29 Economic and Social Council, Official Records (15tb session), Supplement 2Google Scholar.