The Second Regional Conference of National Commissions of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific Area was held in Bangkok from 26 November to 10 December 1951. Travelling exhibitions, arranged by UNESCO, were simultaneously presented on science, art, Human Rights and UNESCO in action.
In 1950, two years after the fire that destroyed the main hall of the pagoda and in prevention of future natural disasters, the Kyoto UNESCO Co-operative Association decided to produce a photographic record of the temple of Koryuji, one of the world's oldest wooden temple. They then took 184 photographs of all the temple's treasures, the majority of them having never been revealed to the public, and made 10 sets of them which they send to the Emperor of Japan, many prestigious cultural institutions such as the Louvre and the British Museum, as well as one to the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Negatives were made out of those prints, thus creating the countertypes presented here, around two years later.
In 1952, thanks to the Gift Coupons system by UNESCO, the Social Education Center in Parel, Bombay, received audiovisual materials including radio sets and filmstrips.
These negatives were taken during the exhibition organised by the Paris Tourist Committee and the Paris Chamber of Commerce on the occasion of the 7th General Conference (12 Nov.-11 Dec. 1952) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
In 1952, exhibitions took place in two out of the three cities chosen to evaluate people's reactions to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948: Cambridge and Grenoble.
On May 9, 1951, Mr. Miguel AIeman, President of the Republic of Mexico, and Mr. Jaime Torres Bodet, Director-General of UNESCO, inaugurated the Regional Center for Basic Education in Latin America (CREFAL), UNESCO's first center dedicated to the training of education specialists. Its members will focus specifically on education applied to essential areas of daily life, covering literacy as well as agriculture and home economics.