SZ/WPC - UN World Population Conference, Rome, 1954

SZ/WPC

Series

UN World Population Conference, Rome, 1954

1953-1954

1 box

A proposal that the UN should call a world conference on population was first put to the UN Population Commission in 1948, by the Director-General of UNESCO. This was followed by a similar call from the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population in 1951, and in 1952 the UN Economic and Social Council approved the calling of a conference, and accepted an offer by the Italian Government to host it. It was held in Rome from 31st August to 10th September, 1954. SZ was a member of the UK delegation.

There is no correspondence in this series; it is possible that some related correspondence is to be found in Series SZ/ACSP, SZ/NRTC, SZ/BU, and SZ/GEN.

File SZ/WPC/1 includes a typescript of the paper that SZ gave at the Conference, 'Population in Relation to Creatable Non-Biological Resources'. This file also contains a copy of Hansard (Lords), vol. 187, no. 63, 28.4.54, which records a debate on World Population and Resources initiated by Viscount Samuel.

See also File SZ/PEP/2.

Copies of the published Summary Report and the 6-volume Proceedings, both issued in 1955, are to be found in that part of SZ's personal library bequeathed to UEA and now joined with his Archive