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DAILY HIGHLIGHTS FOR: 7 March 1996

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.

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION EXAMINES SITUATION IN FINLAND

RD/855
7 March 1996


Press Release
RD/855


COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION EXAMINES SITUATION IN FINLAND

19960307 Concludes General Discussion of United Kingdom Report

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon took up a report from Finland on the measures taken by the Government to implement the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONDEMNS RECENT TERRORIST ACTS IN ISR"L

RD/857
7 March 1996


Press Release
RD/857


COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONDEMNS RECENT TERRORIST ACTS IN ISRAEL

19960307

GENEVA, 6 March (UN Information Service) --The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, meeting for its forty-eighth session in Geneva, issued the following statement this afternoon: