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Catalogue description Home Office: United Nations Organisations (UNO Symbol Series) Files
| Reference: | HO 274 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Home Office: United Nations Organisations (UNO Symbol Series) Files |
| Description: |
Files from the Home Office UNO (United Nations Organisation) series. They concern the work of various United Nations bodies. Subjects covered include human rights, slavery and forced labour, refugees and stateless persons, passports and social welfare. |
| Date: | 1949-1997 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | UNO Symbol file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 53 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1984 Home Office |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
United Nations bodies that deal with subjects of interest to individual government departments request governments to appoint representatives of the relevant ministries to advise those bodies, to ensure that specialised knowledge is available to formulate policy, thus protecting the interests of national delegations. The Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and other Cabinet Ministers consult with and advise the permanent delegation based in New York. Sir Samuel Hoare, who was made an Assistant Under Secretary of State at the Home Office in 1948, was elected as first head of the United Kingdom delegation by reason of the themes covered |
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