Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 22, No. 1. March 2, 1959
I.S.C. 8th Conference
I.S.C. 8th Conference
Leiden, Netherlands. The International Student Conference's most active year was climaxed from 15th to 25th February by the meeting of some 70 National Unions of Students near Lima, Peru.
It was the 8th International Student Conference, the most representative student meeting held anywhere, and the most representative International Student Conference since the first one took place in 1950.
Participants from Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and Latin America flew to Peru for the 10-day Conference; 85, approximately half went on a special charter flight from Amsterdam via Bermuda to the Conference site.
Host for this first I.S.C. convened in Latin America was the Federacion de Estudiantes del Peru, the National Union of Students of Peru.
Africa and the Middle East:
- Algeria, East Africa, French West Africa, Ghana, Israel, Morocco, Nigeria, Rhodesia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey.
Asia:
- Australia, Ceylon, Hongkong. Indonesia, Malaya, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam.