Archives 1950-1969.

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Archives 1950-1969.

Records of the first to the thirteenth International Student Conference 1950-1969: correspondence, circulars, reports, resolutions, lists of participants; records of the SUPCOM, the Investigation Commission, RIC (mainly reports) and the Charter Commission; correspondence with national student organizations, international student faculty and sport organizations, with other international organizations, i.e. Amnesty International, anti-apartheid movement, International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY), International Union of Students (IUS), International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), Christian, Jewish, liberal and other organizations; with volunteer organizations, i.e. Seminar on International Voluntary Service and the European Conference of International Voluntary Organisations; with the World University Service concerning aid to Algerian, South African, Angolese, Spanish and other students, refugees and exiles; with UN, UNESCO and other international organizations; documents relating to international student travel organizations, several study seminars, European conferences on higher education, the International Conference of Youth and Students for Disarmament, Peace and National Independence, conferences on student health and welfare; to campaigns against illiteracy, poverty and violations of human rights; to the student press, the publication department of the ISC; records of the International Bureau for Cultural Activities (IBCA) of the ISC, mostly concerning literary contests and youth festivals; of the International Exchange Fund; documents on fund raising; financial documents; documents on the clerical staff; documentation on countries; press clippings.

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Established in 1950; Western counterpart of the communist orientated International Union of Students (IUS); organized congresses for its members, the National Unions of Students (NUSes); its Coordinating Secretariat of National Unions of Students (COSEC), established in Leiden, Holland, was specifically without policy powers; the ninth ISC in 1960 abandoned the s̀tudents-as-such' clause, making political statements of the ISC possible; supreme authority between conferences was now endorsed by a ...