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.