United Nations Commission on Status of Women Opens Its Second Session

The fifteen-member organ of the United Nations Economic and Social Council prepares recommendations and reports to the Council on promoting women's rights in political, civil, social and educational fields. The agenda for the present session includes methods of educating women on the use of franchise, economic rights for women, and cooperation with the International Labour Organization (ILO); educational opportunities for women, and prevention of discrimination on grounds of sex.

Miss Mary Sutherland, United Kingdom representative, at table before the opening of the Second Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

Lake Success, New York. 5 January 1948.

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