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Press Release


DH/2096
7 March 1996


Press Release
DH/2096


DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 7 March 1996

19960307 * Secretary-General, in message to mark International Women's Day, notes significant gains of last 20 years but says no society treats its women as well as its men.

* Bosnian Federation police move into Sarajevo suburb of Hadzici; find 50 mostly elderly Serbs remain out of population of 9,000.

SG/SM/5915
6 March 1996


Press Release
SG/SM/5915
WOM/903


SECRETARY-GENERAL SAYS 1995 LANDMARK YEAR FOR ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN, IN MESSAGE ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

19960306 ADVANCE TEXT Following is the text of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's message on International Women's Day 1996, which will be delivered on his behalf by Under-Secretary-General Rosario Green, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, at the Headquarters observance of the Day on 7 March: